ARE YOU A SINNER? THALASSEMIA- NEW HOPE! - by Dr.Fatema Palgharwala.@ #HappyHomoeopathy Clinic

She is my first patient of thalassemia! With the strenght of my AQAMAULA.TUS; here I go conquering again.Ameen.

Yes Happy Homeopathy is happy to announce thalassemia care from September 2014!

Her mother goes to numerous community marriage ceremonies and talks to pairs encouraging them to get a thalassemia test done before having children because she knows the agony of having the illiteracy about it, due to lack of awareness about this disease; her child is a victim today.

She is belittled at these ceremonies many call her a sinner! Saying it’s because of your sins that you have incurred this disease. Well here comes the educated illiterate class of our society!

 Are all diseases caused by sins? Have you never fallen sick? Or you will never fall sick in your future?

I know we don't have answers to these question.

The pointer here is AWARENESS about THALLESEMIA.

Happy Homoeopathy has always followed a protocol for young couples who are our patrons , I know maybe my effort is small thus today I appeal to you spread awareness.

Have your children tested.

Have yourself and your spouse tested before marriage,

before having children,

do you want to see your baby have blood transfusions all her life ?

 Just because you thought you are not a sinner to have this gene! Think again!

I appeal to all community matrimonial departments to make this awareness.

All those JODI MAKERS to have this awareness.

Please don't jeopardise your life and your future generations’ life.

Let me enumerate a personal experience here. Being single I get pushed towards meeting marriageable men frequently! Now I know the filter we hold in our society is very gravelly thus I come across more eligible yet not-marriageable men more!

 Compromise is not my cup of tea.

 I met this person who felt like a well-educated person in the start and then later was found that he had the vices of bad habits and also unethical indulgences. I knew my options. After meeting I received a call from the JODI MAKER gladly informing me that the man has liked me and would like to continue further, I was happy to which I put up the point that since  he has had a colourful past let him get a HIV TEST DONE . I never got a call back. I am safe now. I appeal to the girls and boys reading this grow up don't fall for money and status make yourself future safe. Get yourself tested! And marry ‘TESTED OK!’

This is dedicated to this mother patron of my clinic who in-spite of being called a sinner goes to community marriages and creates that little awareness that she can! She is my hero! 

Let’s forgive and spread happiness.

DR.FATEMA PALGHARWALA

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Frequently Asked Questions

What Is Thalassemia?
(also known as Mediterranean anemia, or Cooley’s Anemia) is a genetic blood disease. People born with this disease cannot make normal hemoglobin (anemia) which is needed to produce healthy red blood cells.

Who carries Thalassemia?
People of Chinese, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean or African origin.

What is Thalassemia Minor?
People with a thalassemia mutation only in one gene are known as carriers or are said to have thalassemia minor. Thalassemia minor results in no anemia or very slight anemia. People who are carriers do not require blood transfusion or iron therapy, unless proven to be iron deficient.

What is Thalassemia Major?
Children born with thalassemia major usually develop the symptons of severe anemia within the first year of life. Lacking the ability to produce normal adult hemoglobin, children with thalassemia major:

·         are chronically fatigued

·         fail to thrive, and

·         do not grow normally

Prolonged anemia will cause bone deformities and eventually will lead to death within the first decade of life. The only treatment to combat severe anemia is regular blood transfusions.

How can Thalassemia be treated?
Regular blood transfusions allow patients with thalassemia to grow normally and be active. Unfortunately, transfusions result in deadly accumulation of iron in the heart and liver. If the excess iron is not removed then the patients may suffer from a premature death due to iron overload.

Nowadays, drugs designed to remove excess iron (iron chelators) have significantly changed the prognosis of thalassemia. Patients can grow and develop normally, with relatively normal heart and liver functions. Patients are living longer and having families of their own. Medical advances continue and promise to improve the life expectancy and quality of life further for those living with thalassemia.

Current treatments allow thalassemia patients to live relatively normal lives, however, a cure remains to be found. The genetic cause of thalassemia was one of the first genes discovered in the 1970′s, yet 30 years later, gene therapy still eludes thalassemia patients.

Do you carry Thalassemia?
Many people from the areas of the world where thalassemia is common carry the gene for it on one chromosome (that is, they have thalassemia minor). You may believe that your blood has been tested for this specific gene but testing for thalassemia requires a special blood test. To be tested your doctor must order a blood test called HEMOGLOBIN ELECTROPHORESIS which can identify a carrier of thalassemia.

If you, your parents or ancestors are from an area of the world where thalassemia is common, PLEASE REQUEST hemoglobin electrophoresis blood test from your doctor.

It is important to identify yourself as a possible carrier of thalassemia (thalassemia minor). A person with thalassemia minor has a 25%(1 in 4) chance of having a baby with thalassemia major if his/her mate also has thalassemia minor.

How do you inherit Thalassemia?
If both parents carry thalassemia minor, their children may have thalassemia minor, or they may have completely normal blood, or they may have thalassemia major. In each pregnancy there is a one in four (25%) chance that their child will have normal blood, a two in four (50%) chance that the child will have thalassemia minor or a one in four (25%) chance that the child will have thalassemia major.

How can we prevent Thalassemia?
Please share the information on this website with others. Show it to your family, friends, neighbours, coworkers or anyone who has origins from areas where thalassemia is common. Be sure to ask your doctor to test you for thalassemia minor. Increased awareness is the key, please do your part by spreading the word.