Red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to all parts of your body, and when you do not have enough red blood cells, your body can not get enough oxygen. It is very common to feel tired when this happens as your body is being deprived of the oxygen it needs.
When you have aplastic anemia, your bone marrow stops producing enough new blood cells. Because you are not producing enough white blood cells, you also are more prone to disease and infection. And because your blood does not produce enough platelets to clot effectively, aplastic anemia can lead to unstoppable bleeding. A simple cold or nose bleed can be quite dangerous to someone with aplastic anemia.
It is believed that aplastic anemia can be inherited or brought on by viral infection. It is also believed that cancer, chemotherapy, strong medications, pregnancy and exposure to toxic substances can bring on what is known as secondary aplastic anemia.
From a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, TCM practitioners do not focus on treating the symptoms of disease and conditions such as aplastic anemia, but rather, they work to restore balance and harmony within the body and key organs. They try and achieve this goal by encouraging healthy lifestyle changes like supporting a person’s body with diet modifications, herbal supplementation & stress reduction. In TCM, the goal is to provide maximum health support so that the body may better heal itself and maintain optimum health.*
