@Insh_11 29 November 2021

My Voice Against Anemia

**November 29, 2021** **Author**: @Insh_11

Dear friend, in this article I am going to talk about **anemia**, because this is a big problem that is affected globally. My main purpose of writing this article is to build awareness about this disease. Around **35%** of the total population is affected by this disease, and people are affected by this disease due to a lot of reasons that I will discuss in detail. Actually in this disease, there is an insufficiency of healthy **red blood cells** in the body, and that's why the proper amount of oxygen doesn't reach all the tissues and organs of the body. Because red blood cells are responsible for the proper transfer of **oxygen O2** in the body, when they decrease, then oxygen transport is also disturbed. Actually **hemoglobin** is a special type of protein which contains iron, and this protein gives red color to the **blood**, and this is the protein which is responsible for the transfer of oxygen from the bloodstream to the all body organs' like **lungs**, heart, kidney and others. And iron is a component which is present in the hemoglobin, and we can easily take iron from different food resources which I will discuss below. Although anemia has different types like, iron deficiency anemia which occurred due to many reasons. First **poor intake** of iron in food, it's very necessary to take iron rich food daily like leafy vegetables, **eggs** and meat. If you take too little iron in your daily food then you have a risk of getting iron deficiency anemia, so be careful in your diet.

The other type of anemia which is occurring by **loss of blood**, so in this case females are most vulnerable to be anemic due to blood loss due menstruation and childbirth. The other reason for blood loss is the low level of fibrinogen in your blood, **fibrinogen** is a protein that helps in blood clotting when blood flows due to any **injury**. So when this protein is not present in your blood in the adequate amount, then blood doesn't stop, and blood loss occurs till a very dangerous level. Low level of fibrinogen may be **genetic** disorder or may be due to any disease like liver disease, because fibrinogen is made in the **liver**. The other very severe type of anemia is by genetic disorder called **sickle cell anemia**. In this a newborn is genetically infected by this disease. Sickle cell anemia is only treated by transplantation of special cells which are also called **bone marrow cells**. So in this treatment bone marrow cells are given intravenously to the patient that replace damaged cells with repeated therapies.

https://pixabay.com/images/search/anemia But finally I want to say something very important, most people throughout the **world** are affected by a single type of anemia which is iron deficiency anemia. This is because of a poor **diet**, So I want to tell you that it is in our power to eliminate this disease by taking iron rich foods. I don't say that you alway should eat very costly food. Eggs and leafy vegetables are the **cheapest** source of iron, so make sure you regularly take these foods to defeat iron deficiency anemia. Other food sources of iron are all types of meat including **goat**, chicken and **seafood**, **nuts** are also very good sources of iron. And it's very necessary to give healthy iron foods to **kids**, because they have no knowledge about these things, so this is the responsibility of parents to raise their children in a healthy way. Hope you get some important knowledge from my article, so don't forget to give me your **feedback**. https://pixabay.com/images/search/anemia/ **Thank you so much ❤** ***All Content Is Original Unless Specified Otherwise!***

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