After having many signs and symptoms of anemia, surely you will be anxiously to verify do you really have anemia or not.
Basically, the most common thing to be done by doctors or health care provider in identifying the disease is by doing a blood test.
From the blood test, we can identify the percentage of Hemoglobin amount. We also can detect the shorten of Red blood cells life span.
*Cells also have their death date 🙂
If one has the anemia, the test for hemoglobin will give result as less than 12.5g/dl. For affected-6-month-old baby, the hemoglobin will be less than 11g/dl.
For the life span of red blood cells, they will be shorter as if less than 40 days.
*normal life span for red blood cells is 120days.
If you have many of the symptoms of anemia, go and do blood test to verification.
The sooner the better! 🙂
Prepared by: nik nur atiqa, final year B. Medical Science,MSU
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