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Hemophillia – Haemophilia
Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot properly. People with hemophilia can live full lives and enjoy most of the activities that other people do. If you have hemophilia, or know someone who does, it’s important to learn how to stay as healthy as possible. This can lead to spontaneous bleeding as well as bleeding following injuries or surgery. Even though hemophilia runs in families, some families have no prior history of family members with hemophilia. Sometimes, there are carrier females in the family, but no affected boys, just by chance. However, about one-third of the time, the baby with hemophilia is the first one in the family to be affected with a mutation in the gene for the clotting factor.
Hemophilia can result in:
• Bleeding within joints that can lead to chronic joint disease and pain
• Bleeding in the head and sometimes in the brain which can cause long term problems, such as seizures and paralysis
• Death can occur if the bleeding cannot be stopped or if it occurs in a vital organ such as the brain.
Blood contains many proteins called clotting factors that can help to stop bleeding. People with hemophilia have low levels of either factor VIII (8) or factor IX (9). The severity of hemophilia that a person has is determined by the amount of factor in the blood. The lower the amount of the factor, the more likely it is that bleeding will occur which can lead to serious health problems.
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