Friday, September 19, 2008

Few symptoms and strategies how to avoid from leukemia

By Erny Setyawati


Keep warning, if children, husband and family always feel weak and tired, pale, fever, and bleeding without knowing the caused. These are few symptoms that leukemia has. Few serious indications that we must care our health beside indications above, their weight tend to loose and blood decreasing. Leukemia or called blood cancer is one of cancer disease that attacks white blood cell
that produced in bone marrow. There are three kinds of blood in human body, red blood, white blood and platelet, is one of little cell in red blood. They have functions, white blood defends from infection, red blood brings oxygen to human body and cell (platelet) helps blood freezing. The symptoms of leukemia is difference to every human, but few general symptoms can be described below,


1.Anemia

Sufferer tends breathing fast, pale and quick tired, because the blood pressure is under normal and less of oxygen.

2.Bleeding

There are many red spots on skin, because of platelet is not produce normally, because white blood dominant.

3.Infection

The white blood that has function to attack virus, produced abnormal so that the sufferer is easy to be sick, especially, fever, and cough.

4.Painful in part of bone

This is caused, bone marrow press white blood cell.

5.Stomach painful

Stomach painful is one of Leukemia symptom. This is caused of leukemia cell
assemble in kidney organ, liver and gall.

6.Difficult to breath

The sufferer is difficult breathing so that felling illness in the chest.

We can recovery from leukemia, if we go the doctor right away, without waiting
to stadium 2 or 3. There are few therapies must face for leukemia sufferers.

1.Chemotherapy /intrathecal medications.

2.Therapy radiation. ( seldom used)

3. Bone marrow transplantation.

4.Red blood transfusion and platelet.

There are few factors that caused leukemia, as insecticide, medicine that used
for chemotherapy, radiation, chemical industry, poison environment and benzene.