Thalassemia is a genetic disease and is caused by disturbances in the jeans of the mother or father or both. Hemoglobin in the blood is made up of 2 types of proteins - alpha and beta globin. Thalassemia occurs when genes in either of these two proteins are disturbed.
What are the types of Thalassemia?
There are many types of Thalassemia, but there are mainly two types of Thalassemia.
Thalassemia minor
This disease occurs in children who get the affected genes by the mother or father. Patients with Thalassemia suffering from this type often do not have any symptoms. These patients are thalassemia carriers.
Thalassemia Major
The disease is caused to children whose mother and father have problems with the commodity. If both the mother and father are Thalassemia Minor, then the child is at greater risk of becoming Thalassemia Major.
Hadrop feet
It is a very dangerous type of thalassemia in which the baby dies inside the womb or shortly after birth.