Warning signs of leukemia you should not ignore

Everyone needs to pay attention to signs of bleeding gums.

According to Dr. Vu Quang Hung, blood cancer (also known as leukemia) is a malignant cancer. The disease appears when the body begins to have a sudden increase in white blood cells.

White blood cells are responsible for protecting the body, so when their numbers increase suddenly, they will lack food and nutrients, so white blood cells often eat red blood cells - an important component of blood. Red blood cells will be gradually destroyed, so when sick, the patient will become anemic and die.

According to Dr. Hung, there are currently acute leukemia and chronic leukemia. Each group is divided into many subgroups. Each type of disease has a different prognosis so there is a different treatment.

Blood cancers include: leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

In acute leukemia, the body produces a large number of immature white blood cells that clog the bone marrow and prevent the bone marrow from producing other blood cells needed to build a balanced immune system and healthy blood.

For people with lymphoma, it affects the lymphatic system - an important part of the immune system, which helps protect the body from infection and disease.

When you have lymphoma, it means that your body produces too many lymphocytes in an uncontrolled way and these lymphocytes survive longer, causing an overload, damaging the body's immune system. Lymphoma can develop in many parts of the body, including the lymph nodes, bone marrow, blood, spleen and other organs.

Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer of plasma cells.

Regarding the cause of leukemia, according to Dr. Hung, there is still no main cause but there are risk factors that cause mutations and leukemia. However, there are still risk factors that cause leukemia such as: Living environment, toxic chemicals, radioactive substances, viral infections and genetic mutations...

Dr. Hung recommends that people can rely on the following signs to recognize that leukemia is attacking.

When the patient feels prolonged fatigue, prolonged fever, significant weight loss, pale skin, bleeding and bruising of the skin and other organs.

In addition, people with leukemia also have signs of abdominal pain, anemia, rash, acne or thrombocytopenic purpura on the body, bone and joint pain, frequent infections, difficulty breathing, bone and joint pain, etc.

In particular, people need to pay close attention to warning signs such as nosebleeds, bleeding gums, prolonged menstrual bleeding...

Unlike dengue fever, the bruises of this disease are multi-morphological such as spots, dots, patches and scattered on the limbs or spread all over the body. The hemorrhagic spots are initially red, then turn pale yellow and dark.

Finally, to know exactly whether the patient has thrombocytopenic purpura or not, experts recommend regular health check-ups and timely blood tests to detect the disease, especially when the above symptoms appear.