Blood is a specialized body fluid. It has four main components: plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
Blood has some following functions:
The blood that runs through the veins, arteries, and capillaries is known as whole blood, a mixture of about 55 percent plasma and 45 percent blood cells. About 7 to 8 percent of your total body weight is blood. An average-sized man has about 12 pints of blood in his body, and an average-sized woman has about 9 pints.
When something is wrong with your blood-related diseases, it can affect your total health. That is why it is important for you to know about some of the common blood disorders that may affect you. People may be affected by many different types of blood conditions and blood cancers. We are operating where we hired best cancer specialist.
Common blood disorders include High (Polycythemia) or low Red Blood Cells (anemia ), Low Platelets, High Platelets, Low or High white blood cells, bleeding disorders such as hemophilia, blood clots, and blood cancers such as leukemia,
There are many causes of low Hb.
Three main causes are:
It may be that blood is being lost from the body like bleeding in stool, urine or, in women, heavy menstrual bleeding.
It may be that your bone marrow is not producing enough due to certain disease or low nutrients like vitamins or iron.
It may be that your blood is being broken down due to immune problems, drugs etc. Depending on the cause, then the treatment is done.
When you have more blood in the body than you need, it’s called Polycythemia. It is mainly from bone marrow problems. Rarely it may be secondary to smoking. Various tests are done to find out the cause and treated accordingly lymphoma, and myeloma.
Leucopenia means low white blood cells. White blood cells help defend the body from infections. There are five different kinds of white blood cells. Leucopenia is serious condition and REQUIRES URGENT DIAGNOSIS and treatment.
High white count could be a sign of infection, smoking, Leukemia (blood cancer).Depending on the cause; it may be benign or Cancerous. It requires URGENT DIAGNOSIS and treatment.
It means low platelet count. Platelets may be low because of immune problems (ITP) ,Drugs , Infections (Hepatitis) .These may be low because of infection, bone marrow problems like leukemia. Low platelet count can be very dangerous and cause bleeding. It needs to be diagnosed and treated URGENTLY.
High platelet count may be because of infection, iron deficiency or serious bone marrow problems like Leukemia ( Blood cancer ) or similar other bone marrow diseases. It can be very dangerous and needs urgent treatment.
