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Acute V. Insidious onset
Bleeding
Drugs/Toxins
Previous Episodes
Transfusions
Hospitalizations
Nutrition/Pica
Chronic Diease/Infection
Ulcers
GI surgery
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Others with anemia
bleeding disorders
Racial/geographic
chronic disease |
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| Pale skin, Pale mucous membranes, pale nail beds, and pale aplmar creases |
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| Abnormal yellow coloring of the skin. Usually associated with hemolysis and hepatitis |
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| Discomfort and decreased efficiency. Usually associated with decreased oxygen transport |
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| Sensation of unsteadiness. Usually associated with decreased oxygen to the brain |
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| Weakness or fainting when rising to a sitting or standing position |
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| Rapid heart beat felt by the patient |
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| Abnormal heart sound. In anemia this is due to rapid blood flow through the heart |
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| inflammation of the tongue |
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| Inflammation/pain of fingers or toes (seen in infants with sickle cell disease) |
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| Abnormal sensation, such as burning or prickling feeling on the surface of the skin |
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| Concretions formed in the Gallbladder seen in some chronic hemolytic states |
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| Enlargement of the spleen. Seen in some sequestration states. (states in which blood cells are accumulated and isolated in the spleen) |
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| Body's ability to adjust to a chronically low hemoglobin |
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