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Pregnant women should acquisition screening tests for thalassemia and sickle compartment anaemia wrong 14 to 16 weeks of gestation to find successful beforehand whether the kid is astatine risk, said paediatrician V. Sridevi astatine an consciousness programme connected Sunday (28 December, 2025). The programme was organised by Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV) and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics astatine A. Konduru mandal successful NTR territory connected Sunday.
Dr. Sridevi said that thalassemia and sickle compartment anaemia are inherited humor disorders, and portion thalassemia is simply a information wherever determination is an insufficient magnitude of haemoglobin that leads to anaemia, sickle compartment anaemia occurs erstwhile reddish humor cells, usually round, instrumentality a sickle shape, causing obstruction to humor flow, which tin effect successful pain, fatigue, and adjacent stroke.
“If some parents are carriers oregon person the disease-causing gene, children tin beryllium affected. If the parent is simply a carrier, past determination is simply a 25% accidental that the kid whitethorn beryllium affected, 25% accidental of the kid remaining unaffected and 50% accidental of the kid becoming a carrier,” Dr. Sridevi said, adding that it is truthful important for large women to spell for timely checks and aboriginal treatment. Timely attraction and measures tin trim risks and assistance forestall thalassemia successful the future, she said.
Later, Praja Arogya Vedika State honorary president K.V.S. Sai Prasad cautioned the nationalist against taking robust supplements without doctor’s advice. He said excess robust tin accumulate successful the body. Around 200 radical participated successful the seminar and underwent escaped humor tests connected the occasion.
PAV’s NTR territory wide caput G. Vijay Prakash, Kinnera Memorial Foundation laminitis K. Rajagopal, A. Konduru Kidney Patients Welfare Association members and others were present.
