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What are the details of different types of treatments for anemia?

I was diagnosed with anemia. What are the details of different types of treatments for anemia?

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Anemia refers to a reduction in one's red blood cell count circulating in your blood. The actual cause of one's anemia is essential for your health care team to figure out. Cure of the anemia must remedy the root cause. Root cause may be: 1. Blood loss. Remedy centers on stopping the blood loss from your body. 2. Iron deficiency. Iron deficiency most often follows from blood loss and remedy centers on replenishing iron most often with oral iron pills, plus stopping the blood loss. 3. Vitamin B12 deficiency. Remedy centers on B12 replacement either by intramuscular injection or oral supplementation. Vitamin B12 absorption requires a cofactor for its intestinal absorption and this essential cofactor is produced by the stomach lining. If surgery has removed or bypasses the stomach, then B12 injection becomes essential. 4. Folic acid is a vitamin essential for red blood cell production also. Folic acid is present in foods and vitamin supplements. 5. Erythropoietin is an essential hormone that stimulates bone marrow production of red blood cells. Erythropoietin is made by healthy kidneys, If kidney disease is evolving, then erythropoietin hormone injections become necessary to manage anemia. 6. Anemia can result from bone marrow scarring or other diseases in the marrow. These require specialist management and often transfusions plus erythropoietin supplementation. 7. Hemolysis of red blood cells is another rare cause of anemia. The primary reason for hemolysis must be determined and stopped. It can be immune mediated e.g. autoimmune, or can result from an external agent that precipitates an immune reaction. Corticosteroids may be necessary to halt immune break down of red blood cells. Rex