Bethany Mendoza's List: Hemophilia

• Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder that slows the blood clotting process
• prolonged bleeding

  • experience longer periods of bleeding
• occur much more commonly in males than in females.

  • more common in males

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• Hemophilia is a disorder of your blood-clotting system.

  • clotting is blood changing from liquid to solid
• If you have hemophilia and you have a cut, you'll bleed for a longer time than you would if your blood clotted normally

  • lifelong disease

• Many large or deep bruises
• Unexplained and excessive bleeding or bruising
• Nosebleeds without a known cause
• In infants, unexplained irritability
• • ppl with a history of hemophilia should taklk to doctor, geneticist, specialist
• • easy bruising a tell-tale sign

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• • 3 types of hemophila
• • coagulation
• When you're cut or bleeding internally, your body normally pools blood cells together to form a clot to stop the bleeding. This process is called coagulation.
• Hemophilia A.
• Hemophilia B.
• • inheritance of hemophilia
• Hemophilia C
• Hemophilia inheritance
• X chromosome, so it can't be passed from father to son.
• A or B almost always occurs in boys and is passed from mother to son through one of the mother's genes

  • hemo a and b usually occurs in boys and is passed from mom to son
• Most women who have the defective gene are simply carriers and exhibit no signs or symptoms of hemophilia
• spontaneous gene mutation.
• either parent. Hemophilia
• boys and girls.

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• • deep internal bleeding, damage to joints, infection,
• • adverse reaction to clotting factor treatment