LIVING WITH HAEMOPHILIA: HAEMOPHILIA DOESN’T MEAN END OF LIFE.
Haemophilia is a rare inherited condition that affects the capacity of blood to clot. The disease passes on from parents to their children and is more likely to occur in males due to genetic defect. Normally in healthy individual when there is bleeding from a cut or any injury, blood binding factors (factor VIII or factor IX) clog the blood at the bleeding site and thence prevents huge blood loss. But in a haemophilic patient the blood binding factors is absent, as a result these patients bleed longer than usual . Haemophilic patient don’t have bleeding problem, but have delayed clotting. Most distinctive feature of haemophilia is internal bleeding which is common at joints. Owing to entry of blood into the joint spaces patient complains for joint pain, tingling and irritation in joints. They may have bleeding gums, nose and internal bleeding in the form of bruising of skin which is generally ignored by the patient and his family....