Leukemia in children symptoms

Leukemia, so it is still possible to identify leukemia, refers to a systemic hematological malignancies, which is accompanied by a violation of medullary hematopoiesis. As a result of violation there is a replacement of normal, healthy blood cells are immature blast cells of a leukocytic series.

Leukemia refers to malignant blood diseases, and poses a great threat to the life or health of the child.

Among childhood cancer leukemia occurs on average 4-5 times per 100 thousand children. However, in terms of the percentage of cancer, namely leukemia is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in childhood. According to statistics, out of all pediatric Oncology, leukemia is the order of 30%.

The most common leukemia or blood cancer, is diagnosed in children aged two to five years. Sorry, you must answer what is the actual problem of constant growth in the number of cases of leukemia in children and a high percentage of deaths.

Classification of leukemia

All leukemia is divided into two forms, among which it is customary to treat acute it lasts up to 2 years and chronic, the child is more than 2 years. The children in 97% of cases are diagnosed of acute leukemia.

In addition, there is a third form, which is not included in the usual classification, talking about the congenital form.

The clinical course of the blood cancer in a child can distinguish three stages, that is what is built further therapy and tactics of treatment:

• First. This stage covers the period from the first clinical manifestation of a symptom of blood cancer before the first improvement in blood tests, which are expected as a result of the therapy.
• In the second stage, expected partial or complete remission. With incomplete variant of the normalized state of the blood and all clinical parameters. In the liquid bone marrow can be noted not more than 20% of blast cells and remission, this figure does not exceed 5%.
• The third stage is the relapse of blood cancer in children. Despite the prosperity in the field of Hematology, it is possible to diagnose the appearance of foci of leukemic infiltration in the nervous system.

The main symptoms of blood cancer, leukemia in child

Note that in the vast majority of cases all symptoms of leukemia, as the disease develops hidden, gradually. Display the basic symptoms:

• The child begins to get tired.
• Appear sleep disorders.
• Decreased appetite.
• The increase in body temperature for no apparent reason.

Sometimes you can find the beginning of acute leukemia with the fact that there is substance-induced or hemorrhagic syndrome.

Further, we note the following signs:

• Changes the color of the skin. He becomes pale and sickly.
• Skin may becomejaundiced.
• Gingivitis, stomatitis,

  Manifestation of immunodeficiency in cancer blood the child is not so much a self-manifestation, as the result of a combination of several inflammatory processes which develop independently from one another, but almost simultaneously. Unfortunately, this layering inflammation takes not just threatening for but can also lead to death. Note that often the death of a child occurs from acute pneumonia or sepsis that develop on the background of serious decline of the immune properties of the organism.

  Important! One of the most severe complications in a child with blood cancer is considered as leukemic infiltration of the brain, in which affects and involved in the process and the meninges, and nerve trunks.

  Here come to the fore following manifestations symptoms: headache, diplopia, appears obvious stiff neck, dizziness. In addition, the child may decrease the sensitivity of the lower limbs and appear disorder of the pelvic functions.