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Maybe the doctor will prescribe medicine to increase the amount of red blood cells your body produces or treat the underlying cause of anemia.

Some of these medicines are:

* Antibiotics to treat infections
* Hormone Treatment for adult women and adolescents who have heavy menstrual bleeding
* A synthetic form of erythropoietin to stimulate the body to produce more red blood cells. This hormone carries    certain risks. You and your doctor will decide whether the benefits of this treatment outweigh the risks.
* Medicines to prevent the immune system destroys its own red blood cells
* Chelation to treat lead poisoning. Chelation is used primarily for children, because children with iron deficiency anemia are more at risk for lead poisoning.

If your anemia is severe, you may need medical procedures to treat it. These procedures are blood transfusions and transplantation of blood stem cells and bone marrow.

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Treatment of anemia depends on the type, cause and severity of the disease. Treatments may include dietary changes, nutritional supplements, medicines or procedures.
Treatment Goals

The goal is to increase the amount of oxygen that blood can carry. Is achieved by increasing the number of red blood cells or hemoglobin. Another goal is to treat the underlying condition or the cause of anemia.
Changes in diet and nutritional supplements

Low levels of vitamins or iron in the body can cause some types of anemia. These low concentrations can be caused by poor diet or certain diseases or health problems.

To increase the concentrations of vitamins or iron the doctor may ask you to make changes to your diet or take vitamins or iron supplements. A widely used vitamin supplements are vitamin B12 and folic acid. Sometimes there is vitamin C to help the body absorb iron.
Iron

Your body needs iron to produce hemoglobin. The body can more easily absorb iron from meat than vegetables or other foods. To treat anemia, the doctor may recommend eating more meat (especially red meat such as beef and liver), as well as chicken, turkey, pork, fish and seafood.

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It is the decreased concentration of hemoglobin in the blood. This parameter is not a fixed value but depends on various factors such as age, sex, and special circumstances such as pregnancy.
How do you get?
Anemia can be due to different reasons and they relate very well with the variations in shape and size of red blood.
This size is different depending on the producing cause of anemia. The size of the G.R. is determined by an analytical parameter called Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV).

Anemia is a common blood disorder that occurs when red blood cells is below normal or when the blood hemoglobin concentration is low.

Hemoglobin – blood element whose function is to distribute oxygen from the lungs to body tissues.

Hematocrit - the measurement of the percentage of red blood cells are in a specific volume of blood.

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Anemia is one of the most common symptoms associated with chronic renal failure.

Patients with anemia had a higher risk of mortality and cardiovascular complications, as well as reducing their quality of life and increased hospitalizations. So the treatment of anemia in patients with chronic renal failure is a priority of his therapy

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is an irreversible disease characterized by kidney damage and deterioration of their function, which progresses with time. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is classified into five phases, which are defined by the level of renal function, which is measured by the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). The lower the GFR, the more severe CRF.

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