G6PD – bago ito sa pandinig ko , kaya’t nung nalaman ko mula sa ospital na positive si kaile .. kinabahan ako ng sobra kasi syempre tungkol sa anak ko ito.. dami tanong sa utak k nun time na un, kung san niya nakuha, sa akin ba? ano dahilan nito at ano mangyayari sa baby ko ang ilan dito… bago ko tuluyang magpanic eh sumanguni ako kay Google at ito ang nalaman ko :
What is G6PD deficiency?
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, or G6PD deficiency for short, is the most common “inborn metabolic disorder” in the world. This means that from the time a baby is born, thre is already something wrong with how his body makes and breaks important substances. According to statistics, about 400 million people have G6PD deficiency, and it is most common in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Babies with G6PD deficiency have very little or no enzyme called Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD). An enzyme is a kind of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body. The enzyme G6PD is especially important to red blood cells. If this enzyme is lacking or missing, red blood cells are easily destroyed.
What are the harmful effects of G6PD deficiency?
G6PD has a very small but strategic role in protecting the body from substances that can cause damage to cells or oxidative substances. Because of this important role, G6PD is normally found in all parts of the body. To be sure, most parts of the body also keep a “spare” enzyme, one that can do the work of G6PD in case it is lacking or missing entirely. Unfortunately, this is not the case with red blood cells. They do not have spare enzymes that can do the work of G6PD. If a baby does not have enough G6PD, his red blood cells lack protection from the harmful effects of oxidative substances.
A baby with G6PD deficiency appears and remains healthy until he is exposed to a large amount of oxidative substances. When this happens, his red blood cells are destroyed, a process known as hemolysis.
Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of the body. When they undergo hemolysis, the baby will have hemolytic anemia. The signs and symptoms of hemolytic anemia are paleness, dizziness, headache, tea-colored urine, and abdominal or back pain or both. Hemolytic anemia, when very severe, can end in death. Destroyed red blood cells are brought to the liver to be broken down to smaller pieces for disposal. One of the end products of this process is bilirubin, a yellowish substance that accumulates in different parts of the body when too much of it is produced. Quite often, bilirubin accumulates in the skin and causes it to appear yellowish. In the worst cases, biliribin accumulates in the brain and causes mental retardation or death.
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kanina nagpunta kami sa UP-NIH para sa confirmatory test, malalaman namin next week kung positive nga ba talaga si kaile sa sakit na ito. Madami ipagbabawal na pagkain at gamot kung sakali.. delikado kapag na trigger ang sakit eh..
tulungan niyo ko ipagdasal na magnegative ang baby namin sa deficiency na ito
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