Common Blood Diseases

There is a large body of research on glutathione, common blood diseases, and the heart.

Blood diseases are abnormalities in the number, shape and or structure of the blood cells, called erythrocytes. There are several ways to categorize these diseases. Many of the classifications overlap.

This section will not focus on the many types of blood diseases. There are many more than we have space to cover.

For those facing health problems in which there are no answers to be found or those looking for alternatives, our purpose is to show the relationship of glutathione in the disease process. Sometimes there is no direct studies linking glutathione with the blood disease. However, looking at the research will allow, in some instances, a connecting of the dots to find solutions.

It will still be necessary to coordinate care with your doctor.

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Common Blood Diseases

Red Blood Cell Abnormalities

Some common blood diseases are the result of blood cell membrane being too rigid or abnormalities in the proteins that cover the membrane.

The cell membrane can be leaky allowing substance to escape or penetrate the cell walls.

Abnormalities in the structure and function of the hemoglobin.

An excessive amount of red blood cells and sometimes increases in other blood cells.

Anemia, the lack of oxygen carrying ability is one of the most common blood diseases. There are several types.

Anemia

Aplastic

Cooley’s Thalassemia

Folic acid deficiency

Hemolytic

Iron-deficiency

Pernicious

Rheumatoid Arthritis Anemia

Sickle Cell Anemia

The Glutathione Sickle Cell Anemia Treatment

Red Blood Cell Disease: Genetic Blood Diseases

Lack of a certain enzyme which disrupts the metabolism. Deficiencies of this kind have a genetic origin.

Lymphocyte Abnormalities

Many blood born disease, genetic blood disease, blood disorders and lymphocyte disorders have a relationship to glutathione levels and the progression of disease. Even the rare blood disease has some research that looks at glutathione. The rare disease often requires mining the data out of the studies in order to find the evidence.

Blood Metabolic Derangements

The Cholesterol Glutathione Relationship

The LDL and HDL Ratios

Causes of High Cholesterol

3 Causes of High Cholesterol

Foods to Avoid High Cholesterol

Disorders of Cell Proliferation

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura or ITP blood disease affects the blood platelets.

Diseases of cell proliferation or cell production include Leukeimia, a group of cancers of blood forming tissues.

Polycythemia Vera The overproduction of red cells or of platelets (essential thrombocytosis) can result in malignancy. It is also a toxin associated blood disease (see below.) In both cases, NAC is recommended by numerous health care professionals for the management of the disease.

What are Polycythemia Vera Symptoms?

Myelodysplastic syndromes have ineffective production of one or more cell lines.

Disorders of Coagulation or Blood Clotting

Hemophilia, a genetic disorder that results in dysfunction of one or more of the clotting mechanisms. An otherwise minor wound could be life threatening. Often this results in bleeding into joints which can cripple.

Disorders of the platelets or insufficient platelets can result in a coagulopathy or bleeding disorder. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), also known as consumptive coagulopathy is one of the complications.

Hypercoagualable state (thrombophilia) is the result of a defect in the regulation of platelets or clotting factor function and cause thrombosis.

Blood Transfusion Side Effects

Allogenic Blood Transfusion Side Effects

Autologous Blood Transfusion Risks

Blood Transfusion Errors

Blood Transfusion Reaction: another transfusion problem.

Blood born diseases are spread by contamination of blood.

Common types include HIV, hepatitis, and viral haemorrhagic fever.

Diseases transmitted by insect or other vector are called vector-borne disease. Most common include West Nile virus and malaria. Once a person is infected and their blood is transfused into another, the blood causes a blood born disease.

Vector-Born Blood Disease

Dengue Fever / Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Here you will find doctors treatment protocols and patient management protocols based on WHO guidelines but for holistic health practitioners.

Infectious Blood

Blood not only gets infected but it can also transmit infection. The HIV virus which causes Aids is transmitted by contact with blood, semen or other body secretions of an person who is infected.

Hepatitis B and C, D, E, G, H, I, TT, Sma 1 are transmitted primarily through blood contact or transfusions. Blood, blood products and bloodstained objects are treated as a bio hazard.

Bacterial infection of the blood is bacteremia or sepsis. Viral Infection is viremia. Malaria and trypanosomiasis are blood-borne parasitic infections.

Transfusion Transmitted Disease of Blood

Hepatitis Blood Transfusion Risks

Blood Born and Vector Born TT Risk

Cryoglobulinemia

TTV - Transfusion Transmitted Virus

Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

Chronic Wasting Disease (New Mad Cow Disease)

KS and HHV-8 Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) and herpes virus-8 (HHV-8)

Leishmaniasis

Lyme Disease

Malaria

Chagas Disease

Babesiosis

Toxoplasmosis

Bacterial Contamination of Blood Products

Infectious Disorders of Blood

Blood Toxins: Blood Diseases

A chemical that causes damage to or disease in the blood or harms blood production. Blood toxins, known as hematopoietics, can prevent the blood from carrying oxygen to cells.

Polycythemia Rubra Vera (PV). There is now evidence that PV is caused by exposure to toxins.

Gasoline Related Blood Disease Many common toxic substances can cause blood born disease. Consider this look at three men who were exposed to gasoline for much of their life. In later life, they all developed gasoline related blood diseases.

The chemical exposure was considered to be the reason.

Did we miss one of the common blood diseases? Please let us know and we will try to include it. Please be patient as we add to the body of evidence based research here. There are numerous other common blood diseases we have yet to cover here.

Anemia

Red Blood Cell Disease: Genetic Blood Diseases

Lack of a certain enzyme which disrupts the metabolism. Deficiencies of this kind have a genetic origin.

White Blood Cell: Disease and Abnormalities

Lymphocyte Abnormalities

Many blood born disease, genetic blood disease, blood disorders and lymphocyte disorders have a relationship to glutathione levels and the progression of disease. Even the rare blood disease has some research that looks at glutathione. The rare disease often requires mining the data out of the studies in order to find the evidence.