Can AB and A blood types have thalassemia?

Thalassemia has nothing to do with blood type.

There are two kinds of thalassemia: α thalassemia and β thalassemia. β thalassemia can be divided into mild and severe.

Mild thalassemia refers to patients carrying thalassemia gene, so it is also called thalassemia gene carrier. Most thalassemia gene carriers have no symptoms and do not need treatment. Only a few people have mild anemia. Without a blood test, most thalassemia gene carriers will not know that they have this genetic gene.

If you are worried, you should go to the hospital for thalassemia examination before marriage. If you all suffer from the same mild thalassemia, the probability of your child suffering from severe thalassemia is 1/4, the probability of suffering from mild thalassemia is 1/2, and the normal probability is 1/4.

Therefore, if it is generally confirmed that you are both of the same mild thalassemia, once you are pregnant, the doctor will advise you to take fetal umbilical cord blood for examination.

My husband and I are both of the same type of mild thalassemia, but our son is very healthy! Marine anemia is a major type of hemolytic anemia. At that time, it was called "thalassemia" because it was first found in the descendants of Italian, Greek and other Mediterranean peoples and their immigrants. Later, it was found that in addition to the Mediterranean region, other areas adjacent to the ocean are also high-incidence areas of this disease, so it is also called "marine anemia".

β thalassemia is high in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the gene carrying rate is 3.5%. Thalassemia can be divided into α and β categories. β thalassemia can be divided into mild thalassemia and severe thalassemia. What needs to be transplanted is severe β thalassemia. Severe β -thalassemia is commonly seen in children around 1 year. These patients must rely on blood transfusion to maintain their lives, usually once a month/kloc-0 times, and most of them died young. It has caused great pressure on the family and society. At present, the only way to cure severe β thalassemia is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Here, I especially remind you that thalassemia can be prevented. As long as the premarital physical examination or prenatal examination is done well, the increase of patients with severe β thalassemia can be effectively prevented.