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Hemophilia is a disease. People who have hemophilia lack protein in their blood, which is also called "The Clotting Factor". People with hemophilia tend to bleed longer after getting injured. They also tend to internally bleed in jointed bones, such as ankles, elbows, and knees. The internal bleeding may damage organs and tissues that may lead to fatality. Hemophilia starts to act in the blood vessel when blood clots in the blood vessel. Since the person with Hemophilia has the lack of protein in their blood, they are unable to stop the clotting. __Where do you get it from?__ You can get hemophilia from inheriting it from a parent or you can catch hemophilia during your lifetime. It is able to develop if antibodies enter your bloodstream and attach to the clotting factors. It will block the clotting factors from working. __What are the symptoms?__ The most common symptoms of hemophilia are bleeding excessive amounts of blood and easily bruised swellings. Hemophilia usually appears somewhere in the joints and in the brain. Bleeding in joints can happen for no apparent reason and causes tightness in the joint without the person noticing or showing any exterior proof. After time, the joint becomes too hot to touch and also to painfully swollen to bend. When swelling continues with the bleeding, the person can lose movement in the joints and will become extremely painful. If not treated quickly, it will permanantly affect the joint. Bleeding in the brain can become very complicated after a simple bump in the head or something more serious than that. some examples of bleeding in the brain includes double vision, vomiting, seizures, double vision and stiffness in the neck.

__How Common is it?__ Approximately, there are 18,000 individuals with hemophilia in the United States. There are two types of Hemophilia. Hemophilia A (classic hemophilia) and Hempholia B (christmas disease.) Hemophilia A have deficiencies of clotting factor VIII which means that their clotting factor is missing or present at low level. Hemophilia B have deficiencies of clotting factor IX. About 9 out of 10 people who have hemophilia have hemophilia A, while the rest has hemophilia B which occurs mostly in males.

__Is it a serious threat?__ yes it can. It can affect organs and tissues which can be fatal. Usually the mild form starts around adulthood. There are different levels of hemophilia depending how serious the bleeding is.

__ Treatment __ There is not a medical solution to cure Hemophilia. But to lessen the effect of hemophilia, prevention and a healthy lifestyle is needed. doing fun and activities that doesnt risk bleeding will help blood move through the vessels more easily. There are also some prescriptions that will reduce hemophilia as well.

__Hemophilia Support Groups__ Wyeth World Federation of Hemophilia Hemophilia Federaion of America LA Kelly Communications, Inc.

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