“For example, some cases can get severe or long-lasting, that can damage your heart, brain, and other organs in your body, but most importantly, the very severe Anemia may even cause death. One of the many reasons why, is because the important red rich blood that we have, which is made up of many parts, including red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets (PLATE-lets), and plasma (the fluidly/liquidly stuff that’s part of the blood). What red blood cells look like or how you can best compare them with are a common sort of a disc-shape that looks like a delicious doughnuts, but without the holes in the center. They carry oxygen (O) and remove carbon (C) dioxide (it’s a sort of waste product) from your body. These kinds of cells are made in your bone marrow—a red sponge-like tissue inside the bones. White blood cells and platelets are also are made in the bone marrow. White blood cells help fight infections, while as platelets stick together to seal small cuts or breaks on the blood vessel walls and stop bleeding, so thank those little cells for helping us not get infected, and try to stop the bleeding, they are like those soldier doctors, but inside our body, protecting ourselves . With some of the types of Anemia, you may have low numbers of all 3 types of blood cells. Anemia has 3 main causes would be: blood loss, lack of red blood cell production, or high rates of red blood cell destruction, they may sound the same, but I assure you they are not. These causes may be the result of diseases, conditions, other factors, or worse. But don’t worry many types of Anemia can be mild, short term, and easily treated. Witch you can prevent some of the types with a healthy diet. As well other types can be treated with dietary supplements...
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...verage child with a body weight of 80 pounds will have approximately half the amount of blood as an adult” (http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-much-blood-is-in-your-body/), that’s a lot of blood inside your body. A low level of hemoglobin or hematocrit is a sign of Anemia. The normal range of these levels might be lower in certain racial and ethnic populations. Your doctor can explain your test results to you. The CBC also checks the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in your blood. Abnormal results might be a sign of Anemia, another blood disorder, condition, or an infection. Finally, the CBC looks at mean corpuscular (kor-PUS-kyu-lar) volume (MCV). MCV is a measure of the average size of your red blood cells and a clue as to the cause of your Anemia. In Iron-deficiency Anemia, for example, red blood cells usually are smaller than normal.
Vitamin B12 deficiency limits selenium methylation and excretion resulting in higher tissue selenium levels and subsequent toxicity. It occurs in people whose digestive systems do not adequately absorb the vitamin from the foods they eat. Vegetarians who eat eggs and milk products are the most at risk because, on average, they consume less than half the adult vitamin B12 Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) while strict vegans (who don't eat any animal products, including meat, eggs, or milk) are at an even greater risk. Vitamin B12 is important since it works with the vitamin folate to make the body’s genetic material and help keep levels of the amino acid homocysteine in check which helps to decrease heart disease risk. It is also essential in the production of red blood cells which carry oxygen through the blood to the body’s tissues. Life Extension gives offers some of selenium supplements. Babies who are born of parents with low selenium and vitamin B12 rich foods are at risk of anaemia.
“Fighting Anorexia” and “cookie monster” are two different articles based on research by some group of psychiatrists that focuses on eating disorder, which in psychology is referred to as a mental illness. Anorexia nervosa is a mental condition that describes a person’s obsession with food and the acute anxiety over weight gain (Newsweek cover, 2005). This disorder is categorized by an individual’s phobia on what to eat and what not to eat; as a result, the person begins to starve his or her self just to avoid adding more weight. The article published on the “Cookie Monster” expatiate on a research that describes how food is being used by some individuals to change their mood (McCarthy, 2001). This research shows that individuals especially college students try to subdue their emotions through the use of sweets and cookies. To further understand of these two experimental research in both articles, some important questions will be answered below.
The kidney produced erythropoietin hormones that stimulates the production of red blood cells in the red bone marrow known as the erythropoiesis process (Mader, 2010). Erythrocytes (red blood cells) are essentially for transport oxygen and carbon dioxide for gas exchange. Red blood cells are lack of nucleus. They contain the hemoglobin which mainly bind to oxygen to transport it to tissues. The red blood cells have the average life span of 120 days and destructive by the spleen and liver. The degraded haemoglobin, iron, and bilirubin are recycled. Nutrients such as vitamin B12, folic acid, and iron are required for the erythropoiesis.
In Richard Wright’s “Hunger”, a mother is forced with a difficult decision. Should she “baby” her child and prevent him from fighting, or should she encourage him to fight and “stand up like a man”? Unfortunately, the mother’s decision is a clear one. The mother tells the boy to stand up for himself and fight back.
Sickle-cell anemia is a genetic disorder that makes your body produce red blood cells that are abnormal in shape. This disease is also widely known as hemoglobin SS disease. Unlike normal red blood cells, sickle cells are rigid and tenacious. Due to their shape and rigidness, they can block blood flow. In turn, this could cause organ damage to the body. Sickle cells are also fragile and die very easily due to the fact sickle cells have a lifespan of twenty days instead of the normal one hundred and twenty days for normal red blood cells.This causes the body to have a lower blood cell count, hence the name anemia in sickle cell anemia.
At the time, I was unable to mentally get past the fact that she was refusing blood products to potentially save her life. This was information that I did not know the answer to. I immediately called the doctor to see if there was we could do to help her. The doctor discussed with the patient if she was willing to receive intravenous iron. Intravenous iron has been shown to be helpful for patients in restoring red blood cell and hemoglobin levels. However, the effects are not immediate (Posluszny & Napolitano, 2014). I continued to do more research and found that by educating this patient on her diet as well as safety precautions to take when ambulating were other ways in which I could help this patient recover.
The normal hemoglobin count for women is between 12.0 to 15.5 grams per deciliter (Chen, Zieve, 2012). The lab tests done for Ms. A. shows her hemoglobin count is only 8 grams per deciliter. This is very low compared to the normal value. Moreover, the normal hematocrit level is between 36 and 46 percent (Chen, Zieve, 2012).
Anorexia nervosa is a life threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain fifteen percent of a normal body weight through self-starvation (NAMI 1). Ninety-five percent of anorexics are women between the ages of twelve and eighteen, however, “…in the past twenty years, this disorder has become a growing threat to high school and college students”(Maloney and Kranz 60). Anorexia produces a multitude of symptoms, and if not treated, anorexia can lead to permanent physical damage or death.
Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient that plays an important role in DNA synthesis and nerve function. It is contained in high amounts in animal derived foods such as milk, eggs, and meat. The vitamin is stored in the liver long-term. Individuals with vegetarian, vegan, or other forms of restricted diet may develop the condition after approximately 6 months as liver stores of vitamin B12 become depleted. Some individuals develop the condition due to autoimmune destruction of cells in the stomach that produce intrinsic factor. Intrinsic factor is necessary for proper absorption of vitamin B12 in the small intestine.
Methemoglobinemia is an uncommon but possible reason for cyanosis. Methemoglobinemia is significant because the disease is fairly rare and consequently most physicians do not consider it as a cause when diagnosing a patient with cyanosis. Regrettably, patients often get misdiagnosed and sometimes treated for the wrong disorder as a result. A two fold dilemma occurs when the patient is treated for an incorrect disorder. The first part of the dilemma includes the patient experiencing all of the negative side effects of the wrong treatment, and gaining no benefit. The second part of the dilemma is that the patient’s actual medical condition is not being treated, and is getting worse with time. The higher the level of methemoglobin in the blood the higher the patient’s chances of dying are. Another thing for doctors to acknowledge is when methemoglobinemia is not considered a valid diagnosis; numerous unnecessary laboratory tests are performed. When unneeded laboratory tests are performed the medical laboratory technologist’s time is wasted when they could be running another patient’s samples. Also running unnecessary laboratory tests costs a great deal of money. During the analysis of cyanosis, physicians should consider methemoglobinemia as a valid diagnosis.
Sickle Cell Anemia can drastically affect someone’s way of life in many ways. From early childhood and the rest of your life, you will be at the mercy of modern medicine to ease you of your pain and ward off infections. The disease is also life threatening, people with this disease suffer from strokes,...
As a result the supply of red blood cells (the most used blood component) barely serves the growing demand.
Anorexia represents one percent of most prevalent eating disorder diseases. The word anorexia itself means, “ lack of appetite”. Anorexia is an all-encompassing pursuit of thinness. The person effected by Anorexia has an absolute fear of becoming obese (Matthew 4).
Sickle cell anemia is a type of sickle cell disease that results in chronic anemia. Chronic anemia occurs when the body has less than the normal amount of red blood cells. This causes the body to be suppl...
Thalassemia is a blood disorder transferred through families. It occurs when the body makes less hemoglobin than needed or an unusual form of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen. The disorder makes an excessive amount of destruction of red blood cells. This eventually leads to anemia.