HAEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Platelet Disorders
Platelets are one of three types of red blood cells in your body, all of which are produced by stem cells in your bone marrow. Platelets are responsible for forming blood clots to stop bleeding and help repair damaged blood vessels. They also help fight infection by activating immune cells.
Platelet disorders happen when there are too many or too few platelets in circulation or the platelets in circulation aren't functioning properly. There are numerous types of platelet disorders, which may either be acquired or inherited.
The average healthy person has between 150,000 and 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood. Unlike red blood cells or hemoglobin, normal platelet numbers are not affected by age or gender.
Thrombocytopenia is the medical term for having a platelet count of fewer than 150,000 platelets. Thrombocytosis refers to having a platelet count above 450,000 platelets.
Platelet function disorders vary greatly in severity and characteristics. With some types of disorders, the number of platelets in circulation falls within the normal range, but for some reason, they aren't performing as they should.
Platelet disorders, in general, are rare, but the most common ones include:
Essential thrombocythemia: A rare chronic blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces too many i platelets, increasing the risk of dangerous blood clots.
Immune thrombocytopenia: A disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys its own platelets, resulting in severe thrombocytopenia with and without bleeding.
MYH9-related disorders: A group of inherited platelet function disorders associated with hearing loss and kidney dysfunction.
Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia: A disorder that occurs during pregnancy or shortly after birth when the mother's antibodies destroy the infant's platelets, causing excessive bleeding in the infant.
Reactive thrombocytosis: An elevated platelet count that develops due to a recent infection, iron- deficiency anemia, or a surgical procedure such as a splenectomy (spleen removal).
Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT): A rare disorder in which the bone marrow cannot produce platelets normally. It is congenital, meaning that it is present at birth.
Drug-induced platelet dysfunction: A disorder in which your body has an abnormal reaction to a medication, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. drugs like aspirin, and Plavix (clopidogrel) —a medication used to prevent blood clots after a heart attack or stroke.
Causes
Platelet disorders may either be acquired, or a person may not be diagnosed until adulthood when symptoms present. Or, although rarer, platelet disorders can be inherited, with symptoms presenting in the first few months to years of life.
Symptoms
Common symptoms that people with platelet disorders present to their doctors include the following:
Frequent nosebleeds that are difficult to stop
Tiny red spots on the skin caused by bleeding, known as petechiae
Bleeding in the gums
For women, heavy menstrual periods that last longer than seven days
Treatments
Homeopathy works best on all the blood cells and the whole of haematological system of body. So after finding out the type and cause of platelets disorder the physician takes a detailed history of patient. Proper constitutional line of treatment will heal the patient deeply and permanently be cause of platelets disorder be anemia or any congenital anomaly.
Few homoeopathic medications which help in such cases are ferrum phosphoricum, china, nitric acid etc
