Blood problem(Anemia, Normocytic Anemia)

Anemia is a disease in the red blood cells, the job of the red blood cells is to carry oxygen from the lungs to all the parts of the body, in a condition of people who are infected with anemia, the hemoglobin levels in their blood is usually low, while hemoglobin is protein in the blood which allows the red blood cells to carry the oxygen, Anemia can occur in the body in several types, but the most common type is when the body have low levels of red blood cells but usually these blood cells have normal size this is what we call Normocytic Anemia.

Causes of Normocytic Anemia

Normocytic Anemia usually has one of two main causes:

• Congenital Anemia: a type that is the person is born with.
• Acquired Anemia: a type which is due to an infection or a disease.

The acquired type of anemia is usually caused by one of the chronic disease such as normocytic anemia include kidney disease, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and thyroiditis, also Normocytic Anemia can be due to some medicines but not usually common.

Symptoms of normocytic Anemia

In the case of having Normocytic Anemia, symptoms doesn’t start to occur fast but on the contrast it takes long time to start showing up as the person who have it may feel tired easily, sometimes looking pale, but if the Anemia started suddenly or evolved to be bad, the patient might feel dizzy or weak.

Finding out about anemia usually come by coincidence, as when you go to make normal regular tests it appears in the blood tests, or when you go to make a test for something else you may discover that you are suffering from anemia, a common blood test which is called CBC blood test can indicate that you have normocytic anemia, this test counts the number of the red blood cells in a patient blood, and if showing a low number of sized red blood cells, you supervising doctor will ask for more tests to find out the reason behind anemia, and in the case of Congenital anemia your family may need to undergo these tests to make sure that they don’t have the disease.

Treatment for normocytic anemia

The treatment usually starts by figuring out the reason that cause anemia, whether it is some sort of medicine or a chronic illness or any reason that may cause you to lose blood cells, and in case of having a state of a very bad nomocytic anemia your doctor may recommend you to have shots of erythropoietin which helps your bone marrow in making more red blood cells.

Sometimes anemia may occur due to lack of iron in the blood, but before you start taking iron pills you have to tell your doctor as too much iron in the blood is also not good for your health.