Hemophilia is a Hereditary Disease

Hemophilia is a Hereditary Disease - Hemophilia is a hereditary disease, but not easy to predict children who would have it. Just watch out if the baby starts learning to crawl and often swollen blue-blue, it could be a symptom of hemophilia.

Hemophilia is a blood disorder that makes it difficult to clot when the injury occurs in both the surface and inside the body. Although reduced, the disease is generally not directly caught from infancy, especially if the family had no history of disease.

"Hemophilia is caught as a child when in fact usually heavy. It caught when children begin to learn to crawl," says Prof. Dr. Billy Djajiman, SpA (K), chairman of the Haemophilia Society Association of Indonesia (HMHI) in a press conference at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) Kencana, Thursday (04/12/2012).

When learning to crawl, children who suffer from hemophilia often experience swelling in the joints. Bluish swelling which usually happens because the elbows and knees clash, and bleeding under the skin surface of the hard stop.

If this happens, then the child should be examined because there is the possibility of suffering from hemophilia. If allowed to continue, bleeding that is too often can lead to permanent damage to the joints.

Sometimes, such a new phenomenon emerged when it was somewhat greater when the child began to love running around and fell. If often swollen bluish, or even have stopped the bleeding that is difficult to look out the possibility of hemophilia.

Unfortunately, there has hemophilia difficult to predict. Although the disease is hereditary, not everyone knows that he brought the X chromosome abnormalities that can lead to hemophilia in children when married to fellow carrier or carriers of hemophilia properties.

Avoid incestuous marriage is one way to avoid the risk of meeting a fellow of the nature of hemophilia. But it also does not guarantee 100 percent, because Oran gtidka may choose a partner from the lineage that is completely free of the nature of hemophilia.

Conversely when suffering from hemophilia seesorang positive, it does not mean their children will surely suffer the same disease. If a man suffering from hemophilia, then all the boys certainly healthy as long as his wife was not of the nature of hemophilia.