Anemia, or anemia, is a decrease in the level of hemoglobin in the blood. Can be acquired and congenital. Depending on the causes that caused the disease, there are posthemorrhagic anemia caused by blood loss, hemolytic (due to increased destruction of red blood cells) and anemia as a consequence of impaired red blood cell formation.
Anemia can be acute (develops rapidly, runs with pronounced clinical signs) and chronic (develops gradually, almost asymptomatic). This common blood disease is often characteristic of childhood because of the physiological features of the child's body (immaturity of the hematopoietic organs, their high sensitivity to the effects of adverse environmental factors).
Anemia caused by a deficiency of various substances (iron deficiency, folate deficiency, protein deficiency) occurs due to insufficient intake of substances necessary for the formation of hemoglobin. They are not uncommon in the first year of life, noted in diseases accompanied by impaired absorption in the intestine, with frequent infections and in premature infants.
The manifestations of iron deficiency anemia depend on the severity of the disease. In a mild form of decreased appetite, the child is lethargic, pale skin, sometimes there is a slight increase in the liver and spleen, in the blood - a decrease in hemoglobin to 80 g per 1 liter (in the normal hemoglobin content - from 170 g / l in newborns to 146 g / l - in 14 - 15-year-olds).
When the disease is of medium severity, the appetite and activity of the child noticeably fall, he is lethargic, tearful, pale and dry skin, there is a murmur in the heart, the rhythm of its contractions increases, the liver and spleen increase, hair becomes thin and brittle. Hemoglobin content in the blood decreases to 66 g/l.
On the face and legs edema, liver and spleen are strongly enlarged, pulse is sharply increased, heart murmurs are audible, the papillae of the tongue smoothed ("varnished" tongue). The amount of hemoglobin decreases to 35 g/l.
Vitamin deficiency anemias are due to insufficiency of vitamin B12 and folic acid, either congenital or acquired after gastrointestinal diseases.
Symptoms of vitamin deficiency anemia: shortness of breath, general weakness, palpitations, burning pains in the tongue, diarrhea, gait disturbances, dullness of touch. Heart murmurs appear, smoothing and reddening of the papillae of the tongue, some reflexes are distorted. Fever is possible, sometimes mental disorders occur. The liver and spleen may be enlarged. The disease is chronic and runs with exacerbations.
As treatment prescribe iron preparations, vitamins, amino acids, normalize nutrition. Tea mushroom is also very useful in such cases.
I had iron deficiency anemia caused by frequent and heavy bleeding due to myoma. Constant weakness, became fatigued from the lightest load, hair fell out, nails began to break. Soon there was shortness of breath, dizziness, heart pain, and tinnitus. Flashes flashed before my eyes every now and then, sometimes I even fainted. I drank drugs - Fenuls and others, for a while it got better, but not for long. I didn't want to remove myoma for a long time, but then I didn't have the strength to bear it anymore and decided to have the operation.
After that the bleeding stopped being so strong, but I could not get rid of anemia for a long time. I ate liver, drank pomegranate juice, but still the flies in front of my eyes and weakness persistently did not want to pass. Then a nurse at our outpatient clinic advised me a course of treatment with a herbal diet that included tea mushroom.
In the mornings on an empty stomach you had to eat 100 g of raw grated carrots with sour cream or vegetable oil. Before dinner, 20-30 minutes before meals, drink an infusion of tea mushroom about one cup. One hour after a meal, a mixture of 7 parts carrot juice, 2 parts beet juice and 2 parts cucumber juice. One hour before bedtime - infusion of tea mushroom. As she told me, this treatment restores the balance of nutrients, enriches the blood with vitamins and iron, and increases the hemoglobin content.
I had to buy a juicer. For three months I was on such a diet and consumed tea mushroom infusion - just as told. Each week I felt better and better. Soon my hair finally stopped falling out, in addition, it became shiny, my nails stopped breaking on their own, and the hated black flies in front of my eyes gradually disappeared. Biochemical blood test showed that hemoglobin and iron levels were normal.
И. Makarova, g. Tomsk
In addition to a mixture of juices are very useful shields from the tops of young nettles, fresh or dried (for 1 liter of water - a handful of raw materials). This kind of vegetarian soup should be eaten at lunchtime. You can use tea mushroom infusion as a dressing to taste. In the morning on an empty stomach and at night an hour before bedtime - a glass of infusion.
If anemia suffers from a child, the infusion of tea mushroom should be taken not by the glass, but half a glass, but according to the same scheme. As one of the therapeutic dishes is useful to give children grated carrots cooked in milk..
