Ashwin Kumar

HEMOPHILIA:
People born with hemophilia have little to none of a protein needed for normal blood clotting. The protein is called a clotting factor.Hemophilia is a rare, inherited bleeding disorder in which your blood doesn’t clot normally.
When blood vessels are injured, clotting factors help the platelets stick together to plug cuts and breaks at the site of the injury to stop the bleeding. Without clotting factors, normal blood clotting can’t take place.
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS:
1.Bleeding in the mouth from a cut or bite or from cutting or losing a tooth
2.Nosebleeds for no obvious reason
3.Heavy bleeding from a minor cut
4.Bleeding from a cut that resumes after stopping for a short time.
5.Bleeding in the Joints
6.Bleeding in the Brain

• Long-lasting painful headaches or neck pain or stiffness
• Repeated vomiting
• Changes in behavior or being very sleepy
• Sudden weakness or clumsiness of the arms or legs or difficulty walking
• Double vision
• Convulsions or seizures

DIAGNOSIS:
Blood tests are used to determine:
How long it takes for your blood to clot
Whether your blood has low levels of any of the clotting factors
Whether one of the factors is completely missing from your blood
TREATMENT:
The main treatment for hemophilia is called replacement therapy—giving or replacing the clotting factor that’s too low or missing. Concentrates of clotting factor VIII (for hemophilia A) or clotting factor IX (for hemophilia B) are slowly dripped in or injected into a vein.