Can a woman with thalassemia have a baby?

Because of the special physique of female friends, many female friends have some symptoms of anemia. Some women find out that they have thalassemia during the physical examination before pregnancy. Can women with thalassemia have children? Can women with thalassemia have children? Generally speaking, if the patient carries a different gene, they can have children, so the patient needs to undergo further examination to confirm.

1. Can people with mild Mediterranean blood have children?

Because thalassemia is a genetic disease, patients are most worried that the disease will be passed on to their children. It is generally believed that thalassemia is a genetic disease, and patients are not recommended to have children. However, if thalassemia patients carry different types of thalassemia genes, they can have children, so thalassemia patients are fertile.

Thalassemia is caused by a genetic defect. As long as one parent is a thalassemia carrier, the child may have the disease. The specific inheritance probabilities are as follows: If a carrier of thalassemia minor marries a normal person, their offspring have a 50% chance of becoming a carrier of thalassemia minor. When a person with thalassemia statica marries a person with thalassemia minor, there is a 1/4 chance of giving birth to a child with thalassemia. If a couple is a carrier of the same type of thalassemia gene, each time they are pregnant, there is a 1/4 chance that the fetus will be normal, a 1/2 chance that the fetus will be a gene carrier, and a 1/4 chance that the fetus will be a patient with severe thalassemia. However, if the couple carries different types of thalassemia genes, or only one of them carries the thalassemia gene, the child born will not have thalassemia.

However, pregnant women with severe thalassemia should pay special attention. If examination confirms that the fetus has severe thalassemia, it is best to perform artificial insemination and terminate the pregnancy. If the test results show that the fetus' genes are normal or that it has mild thalassemia, you can continue the pregnancy and give birth with peace of mind. Mild thalassemia does not require special treatment, while intermediate and severe thalassemia can be treated with blood transfusion and iron chelation. In daily life, pay attention to rest and nutrition, actively prevent infection, and appropriately supplement folic acid and vitamin E.

From the above content, we can know that thalassemia has a relatively large impact on children. Many fetuses with thalassemia often die in infancy. If a couple with thalassemia really wants to have a child, it is recommended that the two go to the hospital for a detailed examination to reduce the possibility of the next generation of thalassemia.