My son has thalassemia major and my daughter has chicken pox ??
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thalassemia affects red blood cells not the white.
You have not stated if he has had any vaccines, and what age group, and if he is mildly anemic at this point or rather sick and needing treatment for it.
Ideally, you should be on the phone with your doctor asking this question. Please make the call as soon as you can.
Yes, it can be very serious and life threatening.
Take him to see a doctor and fast.
You need to isolate him. See your doctor and ask if he can benefit from vaccination
Go to your doctor now!!!!!!!!!...
Being a carrier of the disease may confer a degree of protection against malaria, and is quite common among people from Italian or Greek origin, and also in some African and Indian regions. This is probably by making the red blood cells more susceptible to the less lethal species Plasmodium vivax, simultaneously making the host RBC environment unsuitable for the merozoites of the lethal strain Plasmodium falciparum. This is believed to be a selective survival advantage for patients with the various thalassemia traits. In that respect it resembles another genetic disorder, sickle-cell disease.
Epidemiological evidence from Kenya suggests another reason: protection against severe anemia may be the advantage.[8].
People diagnosed with heterozygous (carrier) Beta-Thalassemia have some protection against coronary heart disease.[9]
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