Hemophilia

Hemophilia is a genetic blood clotting disorder that causes the least little bump, bruise, or sore to massively bleed. It is a rare disorder.

The reason that this blood disorder causes a person to massively bleed is because of the lack of protein in your blood that is needed for clotting. Keep in mind that there are many types of a clotting factor. These factors work in conjunction with your platelets so that the blood will clot normally.

What are platelets? Platelets are pieces of small blood cells that are made up inside the bone marrow. This is the biggest role in clotting for your blood.

When your blood vessels are not normal, these clotting factors that should take place, don't. So what follows then is there is no clotting factor in order to stop bleeding.

Types of Hemophilia

In Type A, there is little to no clotting factors present.

In Type B, there are clotting factors which are not there, or the factors that are there are very low.

Forms of this blood disorder go from the more mild form up to the severe type. People with the "A" type have the more severe form of the disorder, whereas those with the "B" type may have a more mild or moderate form.



The Symptomatology of Hemophilia Types

When you are bleeding profusely externally, there may be these signs:

Mouth bleeding from losing a tooth or a cut

Nosebleeds that come out of nowhere

Minor cuts that bleed profusely

Cuts that bleed after stopping

Bleeding in the urine is a sign of internal bleeding, as well as from the stool.



Joints and bleeding

When there is bleeding that takes place in the joint areas, this is a most common form of bleeding in this medical problem. Joints will swell up badly and when you touch the joints, they will usually be very hot. Pain usually accompanies the symptoms as well.

When bleeding in the joints take place, pain can be excruciating. This problem will need to be taken care of quickly in order to prevent damage and loss of mobility.

The Brain and This Disorder

It is possible that bleeding can easily occur in the brain from this blood disorder. If you are bleeding from inside the head anywhere, the following symptoms will be present:

Severe headaches

Upset stomach with vomiting

Sleepiness

Disturbed vision

Convulsing or a seizure

Diagnosis of Hemophilia

A series of blood tests will be ordered by your doctor or hematologist to figure out your blood problem. The tests will tell your medical team how long it takes your blood to clot, about the clotting factors present or lack of clotting factors, and how many of these factors are missing in the blood.

Treatments for the problem

Replacement therapy is used by hematologists that treat you. This means that clotting factors will be injected into your system through a vein to slow down the problem, not cure it.

They can make concentrates from blood that has already had treatments. Instead of blood from humans, the can also use what is referred to as a recombinant clotting factor. These are the types of factors you can use at home.

Replacement Therapy Can Have Problems

In replacement therapies, problems may be encountered. These types of problems can be:

Joint damages because of putting off a treatment

Getting a virus because the human blood received has a virus that was not screened carefully. Labs are supposed to screen blood though, for any of this.

Antibodies and formation of antibodies that instead of working for your clotting factors, go against those factors.

Other Drug Treatments

They can use other treatments for people that do not have a severe form of this blood disorder.

There is one drug, Desmopressin that is a hormone made by scientists. This drug helps to bring on the clotting factors because of raising proteins in the bloodstream. The drug is given by injection form.

Hope in the Future

Medical research is being done to work on the genes responsible to cure this blood disorder. This therapy hasn't been totally developed yet, but looks promising in the future.

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