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What Causes Hemoglobin Level To Drop?
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My son 7 yrs old(fever in nov end throat pain)has thalessemia trait,received blood transfusion on 8-12 & 10-12-11 due to sudden hb drop to 6.8 ,tlc-4600,n-585,plates-306000,RETIC count-3%,M-56 RBC-4.56,RWD-15.6,S-IRON-18,TIBC-280,Iron Saturation-6.4. once again after one month of blood transfusion CBC DONE .LFT-OK,LDH 862 FERRITIN 297,cal & phos Ca;9.3 phos 3.5 .what was the cause of sudden hb drop? and FERRITINlevel 297 indicates what?Is there any threat?
My son 7 yrs old(fever in nov end throat pain)has thalessemia trait,received blood transfusion on 8-12 & 10-12-11 due to sudden hb drop to 6.8 ,tlc-4600,n-585,plates-306000,RETIC count-3%,M-56 RBC-4.56,RWD-15.6,S-IRON-18,TIBC-280,Iron Saturation-6.4. once again after one month of blood transfusion CBC DONE .LFT-OK,LDH 862 FERRITIN 297,cal & phos Ca;9.3 phos 3.5 .what was the cause of sudden hb drop? and FERRITINlevel 297 indicates what?Is there any threat?
Fri, 26 Sep 2014
Hi, dear.
I have gone through your question. I can understand your concern. Your child has thalassemia trait. So any inter current illness or infection is responsible for sudden drop of hemoglobin. Your ferritine level is not a threat. Don't worry about that. Just take treatment of your illness.
Hope I have answered your question, if you have doubt then I will be happy to answer. Thanks for using health care magic.
Wish you a very good health.
I have gone through your question. I can understand your concern. Your child has thalassemia trait. So any inter current illness or infection is responsible for sudden drop of hemoglobin. Your ferritine level is not a threat. Don't worry about that. Just take treatment of your illness.
Hope I have answered your question, if you have doubt then I will be happy to answer. Thanks for using health care magic.
Wish you a very good health.
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