Can people with thalassemia have children?

Thalassemia is a poorly treated disease and many patients die from it. In addition, thalassemia is also a genetic disease, so everyone is worried about whether people with thalassemia can have babies?

Can I have a baby with thalassemia?

Since thalassemia is a genetic disease, what patients worry about most is that the disease will be passed on to their children. It is generally believed that thalassemia is a genetic disease and patients are not recommended to conceive. However, if the thalassemia patient carries a different type of thalassemia gene, she can conceive, so thalassemia patients can get pregnant.

Thalassemia is caused by a genetic defect. If one parent is a carrier of the thalassemia virus, the child may be susceptible to the disease. The actual probability of genetic inheritance is as follows: if a carrier of mild thalassemia virus marries an ordinary person, their offspring have a 50% chance of becoming carriers of mild thalassemia virus. When a person with static thalassemia marries a person with mild thalassemia, there is a 1/4 chance that the child will have thalassemia. If a couple is a carrier of the same thalassemia gene, each time they are pregnant, there is a 1/4 chance that the fetus will be normal, a 1/2 chance that the fetus will be a carrier of the gene, and a 1/4 chance that the fetus will be a severe Baltic anemia patient. However, if the couple carries different types of thalassemia genes, or only one of them carries the thalassemia gene, the child born will not be prone to thalassemia.

However, pregnant women with moderate to severe thalassemia need to pay attention. If examination confirms that the fetus has moderate to severe Baltic anemia, it is best to implement artificial insemination and terminate the pregnancy. If the test results show that the fetus's genes are normal or belong to mild Baltic anemia, you can safely continue the pregnancy and delivery. Mild thalassemia does not require special treatment, while intermediate and severe thalassemia can be treated with intravenous injection and iron removal. In daily life, pay attention to rest and nutrition, actively avoid infection, and supplement folic acid and vitamin E appropriately.