WHAT IS ITP?
You may also hear the term ITP is a compendium of 'Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura.
In the body of someone suffering from ITP, the blood cells except red blood cells in the normal amount. Red blood cells (Platelets) is the very cells that cover small areas of the body of the post due to injuries or chipped / cut and then formed blood clot. Someone with red blood cells are too few in the body will be very easy mengalamiluka bruised and bleeding even in the period long enough after the trauma injuries. Sometimes small spots of red (called Petechiae) also appear on the surface of the skin. If the number of red blood cells is very low, people with ITP can be difficult to stop the nosebleed, or bleeding in the organs ususnya.
WHAT CAUSES ITP?
Cause of ITP is not known. Someone who suffered ITP, the body formed antibodies capable of destroying blood cells even. In normal conditions, the antibody response against the body's healthy bacteria or viruses into the body. But for people with ITP, even antibodinya-cells attack the red blood cells the body itself.
WHO Gets ITP?
There are 2 types of ITP. Type the first attack usually among children, while other types of attacks adults. Children aged 2 to 4 years, which generally suffer from this disease. While the ITP for adults, most experienced by young women, but also can occur in anyone. ITP is not a descendant of the disease.
HOW DOES ITP AFFECT CHILDREN?
ITP, which is different from children with that experienced by adults. Most children who suffer from ITP has a number of red blood cells, which are very low in her body, which caused the bleeding suddenly. Symptoms that generally appear in them contusion and small spots on the red surface of the skin. Besides nosebleed and bleeding gums.
ITP HOW IS DIAGNOSED?
Your doctor can diagnose this disease with ITP through some of the questions to the patient (or family) and people through physical examination. He will also analyze the results of laboratory examination of samples of blood people.
ITP HOW IS TREATED IN CHILDREN?
Because most people with ITP can recover without medical treatment, many doctors recommend for this observation is very strict and careful handling of people and the symptoms perdarahannya. People do not need to be treated in the hospital if the intensive care and handling and is available in both houses. However, some doctors recommend the handling of medical treatment with a brief oral or installation _Prednisone_ Doofus (into the vein) containing the substance gamma globulin to increase the number of red blood cells with a patient quickly. Both of these drugs have few side effects.
HOW DOES ITP AFFECT Adults?
ITP disease sufferer for adults may take longer than that experienced by children. At the time of the diagnosis, most people with adult ITP has generally experienced the bleeding increased, and it's easy to experience a contusion in the period
several weeks or even months. For female patients, the increased blood flow, menstruation is also the main signs.
Many adults who experienced thrombocytopenia (the number of red blood cells in the blood relatively few) that are not too severe. In fact, even a small part of people experiencing the symptoms of bleeding. This is generally diagnosed ITP when a blood test for a purposes, and in fact one of the results indicates the number of red blood cells are small.
HOW IS TREATED IN ITP Adults?
Handling medical ITP is a disease of adults suffer more intended to increase the number of blood cells even. This is not a cure disease ITP it. ITP patient may be required to consume drugs Prednisone for several weeks, or even more
long. However, when oral medication is stopped, the number of red blood cells in the body, people may be low again.
If the treatment _Prednisone _ also not much help, people with organ spleen may be issued through the action operations. This organ that produces most of the antibody, which is a cell-destroying red blood cells in the body itself. Organ is also working to destroy the blood cells that old or damaged. On the other hand, for a healthy adult, actions operations of the organ spleen is not a category of serious medical action.
ITP WHAT ABOUT WOMEN IN pregnant?
ITP diagnosis during pregnancy is quite difficult, because the number of cells, red blood cells in pregnant women is quite low. Around 5% of pregnant women have a number of red blood cells that normally also quite low in the pregnancy fathers. The causes are not known. But this condition will return to normal shortly after childbirth conducted.
Babies born from a mother who suffered from ITP likely also have a number of red blood cells in the lower body. Kodisi This can take several days to several weeks after he was born. After birth, babies still generally treated in hospital for observation purposes a few days. Until the certainty that there is no problem, the baby can be brought home.
