Haemophillia

Haemophillia

Hemophilia is a rare, inherited blood disorder that causes your blood to clot less, which results in an increased risk of bleeding or bruising.

Hemophilia happens because your body doesn’t make enough protein (clotting factors) to help your blood form clots. Clotting factors are proteins in your blood. They work with your platelets to form blood clots that control bleeding. Low clotting factor levels increase bleeding risk.

There are several types of hemophilia. Hemophilia may be severe, moderate or mild based on the amount of clotting factor in your blood.

There are three types of hemophilia:

• Hemophilia A: This is the most common type of hemophilia. It happens when you don’t have enough clotting factor 8 (factor VIll). The CDC estimates about 10 in 100,000 people have hemophilia A.
• Hemophilia B: Hemophilia B happens when you don’t have enough clotting factor 9 (factor IX).
• Hemophilia C: Hemophilia C is also known as factor 11 (factor XI) deficiency. This hemophilia type is very rare, affecting 1 in 100,000 people.

Causes

Certain genes create clotting factors. In inherited hemophilia, the genes carrying instructions for making normal clotting factors mutate or change. The mutated genes may give instructions that end up making abnormal clotting factors or not enough clotting factors. That said, about 20% of all hemophilia cases are spontaneous, meaning someone has the disease even though there’s no family history of abnormal bleeding.

Symptoms

The most significant symptom is unusual or excessive bleeding or bruising.

• People with hemophilia may develop large bruises after minor injuries. This is a sign of bleeding under their skin.
• They may bleed for an unusually long time, whether that’s bleeding after surgery, bleeding after dental treatment or simply bleeding from a cut finger.
• They may start bleeding for no apparent reason, such as sudden bloody noses.

How much bruising or bleeding people have depends on whether they have severe, moderate or mild hemophilia:

• People with severe hemophilia often have spontaneous bleeding or bleeding for no apparent reason.
• People with moderate hemophilia who have serious injuries may bleed for an unusually long time.
• People with mild hemophilia may have unusual bleeding, but only after major surgery or injury.

Other symptoms may include:

• Joint pain from internal bleeding. Joints in your ankles, knees, hips and shoulders may ache, swell or feel hot to the touch.
• Bleeding into your brain. People with severe hemophilia very rarely develop life-threatening bleeding into their brains. Brain bleeds may cause persistent headaches, double vision or make you feel very sleepy. If you have hemophilia and have these symptoms, get help right away.

Treatments

• Homeopathy works deeply on these blood disorders and heals the blood cells and helps them in produce protein clotting factors again which helps in blood clotting process. It helps in building body’s immunity.

Few homeopathic medications which help in those patients are hamamelis virginica, calendula etc.