BIOL101 Lecture 2: Lecture : Blood disorders. There are two major types of blood disorder, Leukemia, Thalassemia
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Blood disorders affect one or more parts of the blood and prevent your blood from doing its job. Other causes include other diseases, side effects of medicines, and a lack of certain nutrients in your diet. There are two most common types of blood disorders: leukemia, thalassemia, leukemia: It is a type of cancer that affects the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. In this type of blood cancer, number of w. b. cs increases and r. b. cs decreases. Symptoms: fever or chill, frequent or severe infections, swollen lymph node, easy bleeding or bruising, ting red spots on skin, bone pain or tenderness. Causes: persistent fatigue, weakness, loss of weight without try, enlarge liver or spleen, recurrent nose bleeding, sweating at night. Leukemia is thought to occur when some blood cells acquire mutations in their dna. Some abnormalities cause the cell to grow and divide more rapidly and continue living when normal cells would die.
