Question

List 5 steps in the medical management of those clients with anemias

Answer 1

First, it is important to find out if the anemia is being caused by a poor diet or due to some other serious health problem. Then you can treat both the anemia and its cause. Basically the iron deficiency anemia can be treated with.

• Intake of iron supplements by mouth
• Foods rich in iron and those which help body to absorb iron like foods with Vitamic C.
• Intravenous infusion of Iron, this is often a choice if there is chronic kidney disease.
• Transfusion of red blood cells.
• If the anemia is caused by internal bleeding, then a surgery may have to be performed to stop the bleeding. Surgical repair has been used in cases like paraesophageal type of hiatal hernias, with or without ulcers.
• Genetic disrorders like beta thalassemia and sickle cell anemia may require bone marro transplant.
• Anemia is also linked to cancer in some cases both anemia being a symptom and in terms of cancer treatment. Both radiation and chemotherapy can cause anemia, in which case the further cancer therapy may have to stopped temporarily until the anemia is improved by iron, blood transfusion, getting necessary Vitamins B and or getting shots of drugs to stimulate your body to produce erythropoietin.