Treatment of anemia in children and adolescents

Many parents have the words of a pediatrician or a doctor of another specialty that the child shows a decrease in hemoglobin level or a decrease in the number of red blood cells( red blood cells), as a result of the survey, become a complete surprise. Nevertheless, this condition in little patients almost never occurs without any apparent cause.

If anemia develops, the symptoms in children gradually progress for a long time: there is weakness, pale skin, unreasonable mood swings, the desire to eat inedible objects.

For this reason, when there is any doubt, it is worthwhile to show a small patient to a qualified pediatrician and conduct the examinations recommended by the doctor - this will help not only to identify the disease, but also to eliminate its cause. Without this, any treatment for anemia in children will have only a short-term effect and its symptoms will be repeated again, and parents will reproach the doctor for being incompetent, not paying attention to the child and prescribing really effective medicines.

Regardless of the severity of the disease - even grade 1 anemia requires careful attention, the examination program should include:

• repeated performance of a clinical blood test, and it is desirable to conduct studies in different laboratories;
• clinical analysis of urine;
• examination of feces for eggs of the worm, and the material for analysis must be delivered to the laboratory in a warm form;
• scraping on enterobiasis;
• consultation of a gastroenterologist, surgeon, cardiologist, dentist to exclude the presence of a hotbed of chronic infection in the child's body.

Treatment of various types of anemia in children

Parents should understand that in many respects the treatment of anemia in children will depend on the results of laboratory tests, instrumental examinations and the conclusion of specialists.

Not every case to eliminate the symptoms of the disease will help so popular folk remedies for anemia - in the presence of serious problems with the health of the child such "therapy" will be a means of self-complacency of the parents, but will not help a small patient. This equally applies to such a popular recommendation to give the baby red caviar or hematogen in anemia - these funds differ only in their cost, and the effectiveness in both cases is too low.

These therapies are not excluded, but only if they are components of a well thought-out treatment regimen for the disease.

Therapeutic treatment of other diseases

The most common hypochromic anemia in children is found, which is caused by a relative or absolute decrease in the amount of iron in the body. This disease( iron-deficiency anemia) develops when the absorption of this important trace element in the intestine worsens, which is often found in dysbacteriosis, a general decrease in the amount of iron in food or its increased consumption for chronic diseases or infections of the body.

Hypochromic anemia must be treated, and the child should receive the recommended medication( iron preparation) at the recommended dose and the necessary time - only in this case the treatment performed simultaneously with the selection of the appropriate diet will be effective.

Aplastic anemia in children indicates a marked violation of bone marrow hematopoiesis, and its treatment should be carried out only in a hospital setting in the hematology department.

Hemolytic anemia in children is overwhelmingly hereditary( unless it is diagnosed in a newborn) or occurs with a viral infection - it can not be avoided without the advice of qualified specialists.

B-12 deficiency anemia is caused in small patients as one of the manifestations of dysbiosis, and the treatment of anemia in children is to treat the underlying disease and to prescribe vitamin B 12.

Prevention of anemia in children in any case begins by preventing the causes that caused itand dynamic dispensary follow-up after elimination of the symptoms of the disease.