Bone marrow puncture for anemia

The symptom of anemia mainly occurs in female friends, so female friends need to eat more blood-enriching foods, such as red dates, wolfberries, and donkey-hide gelatin. Bone marrow puncture is to check the hematopoietic regeneration ability of the bone marrow, because the bone marrow is the main organ for hematopoiesis. If the bone marrow hematopoietic ability is abnormal, it will cause anemia. However, bone marrow puncture requires everyone to make preparations before the operation.

Why do you need a bone marrow biopsy for anemia?

Cytological examination of bone marrow smears can help us understand the generation of various cells in the bone marrow, changes in the morphology and composition of various cells, and detect abnormal cells, so as to make a clear diagnosis, observe the therapeutic effect, and estimate the prognosis. The bone marrow is the main organ for hematopoiesis. The root causes of many blood diseases originate from the bone marrow. After suffering from blood diseases, the hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow often change. Therefore, extracting a small amount of bone marrow to analyze the hematopoietic cells in it, combined with clinical practice, can often make a positive diagnosis of some blood diseases or support the clinical diagnosis. Diseases that can be diagnosed with certainty include: various types of leukemia, multiple myelopathy, Gaucher disease, Niemann-Pick disease, metastatic cancer, and certain primary infectious diseases. Diseases that are consistent with the diagnosis include: iron deficiency anemia, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, etc. If certain changes are found in bone marrow examination but cannot provide support or negative opinion for clinical diagnosis, it can be used as a reference for further examination. During the treatment of blood diseases, bone marrow examination is often performed to analyze the efficacy of the treatment.

Why do we need to draw bone marrow for anemia?

When elderly patients develop anemia, bone marrow extraction can determine whether they have bone marrow hematopoietic disorders, rule out most blood diseases, and is very helpful in determining the cause of anemia.

Anemia prevention and treatment

1. Infants and young children should promptly add iron-rich foods, such as eggs and animal livers; adolescents should actively correct their partial eclipse;

2. Pregnant women and breastfeeding women should eat foods rich in iron and take appropriate iron supplements;

3. Women of childbearing age should actively adjust irregular menstruation and prevent excessive menstrual flow and prolonged menstrual period;

4. Actively treat the causes of iron deficiency anemia, such as upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by peptic ulcer or erosive gastritis, hemorrhoids, gastrointestinal tumors, and uterine fibroids that cause excessive menstrual flow and prolonged menstruation;

5. Take oral iron supplements. For those with oral absorption disorders, intramuscular iron injection can be used.

Anemia Diet Therapy

1. Donkey-hide gelatin and lean meat soup

Donkey-hide gelatin has the effect of nourishing blood. Take 100 grams of lean pork, 15 grams of donkey-hide gelatin, and appropriate amounts of ginger, pepper, onion, and MSG. First put the lean pork into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, put in ginger, pepper and salt, simmer it over low heat, then add donkey-hide gelatin and stew until it melts. After seasoning, drink the soup and eat the meat. Eat it every other day for one month.

Ginger, pepper, onion, MSG, appropriate amount

2. Pork liver and spinach soup

Pork liver is a food high in iron. Prepare 200 grams of pork liver, 200 grams of spinach, and appropriate amounts of salt, soy sauce, MSG, pepper water, and lard. Cut the pork liver into small thin slices, wash and cut the spinach into sections, put them into a pot, add seasonings and boil them into soup for consumption once a day.

3. Honey and red dates blood-replenishing immortal porridge

Take 20 grams of Polygonum multiflorum and wolfberry, 60 grams of polished rice, 15 red dates, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Then put them together and cook them into porridge and eat them directly, which has the effect of nourishing blood.