Through effective self-management, causative prevention, dietary prevention, and life prevention can avoid the occurrence of certain anemias, especially those due to the lack of hematopoietic elements or specific triggers.
What is the importance of daily life management for patients with anemia?
Diet
Anemia patients can refer to the Balanced Dietary Pagoda for Chinese residents to rationally arrange meals and improve food processing methods.
Dietary recommendations
Increase the intake of micronutrient-rich foods: children, pregnant women, and lactating women can increase the proportion of animal foods and vitamin C-rich
fruits and vegetables in their diets to improve iron absorption.
Dietary taboos
Remove factors that inhibit iron absorption: pay attention to avoid high-fat foods, soy milk, alkaline foods, tea, coffee, vegetables and fruits containing more ellagic acid, peach kernels, almonds, kelp, carrots and so on, in order to remove the factors that reduce or inhibit iron absorption.
Lifestyle
It is recommended that pregnant women take daily iron and folic acid supplements
; pregnant women who are not anemic take intermittent iron and folic acid supplements. Mothers are advised to take oral iron alone or combined with folic acid supplementation for 6 to 12 weeks postpartum.
Avoid long-term heavy exposure to chemicals and drugs, such as benzene, herbicides, insecticides, long-term hair coloring.
Avoid long-term exposure to high-energy rays such as gamma rays and X-rays.
Avoid certain biological factors such as EBV, microvirus B19, cytomegalovirus, and HIV infection
What indicators need to be monitored on a daily basis for anemia conditions?
Regular annual physical examination, if the aforementioned symptoms of anemia should be promptly consulted.
What are the special precautions for anemia?
When you have anemia, rest and avoid strenuous activities.
Blood donation is not recommended for patients with anemia.
Avoid drugs that inhibit iron absorption, including tetracycline
, oxytetracycline
, doxycycline
or quinolone antibiotics, angiotensin-converting enzyme, levodopa
, thyroxine
, calcium or magnesium, medications that lower gastric acid, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
When patients with hereditary disease anemia are ready to have children, it is recommended that they go to the Eugenics Genetics Clinic or a similar clinic for professional genetic counseling. For example, hereditary spherocytosis, erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, hereditary hemoglobinopathies
, dysglobinopathies
(thalassemia
), anomalous hemoglobinopathies, and sickle-cell anemia, etc., which are inherited in different ways by different disorders, and need to be guided by a medical doctor for eugenics.
How can anemia be prevented?
Improve your lifestyle and pay attention to proper diet, see the section on daily life management.
Infants and young children, add iron-rich foods such as eggs and liver in a timely manner.
Adolescents and young people should be corrected for partiality of food, and parasitic infections should be checked and treated regularly.
Pregnant and lactating women can take iron supplements.
Women of childbearing age should prevent and control excessive menstruation.
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