ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME TREATMENT DUBAI

Ever witnessed conditions like blood clots or pregnancy loss even though your health condition may seem to be satisfying. Well, in that case, your doctor may likely schedule the blood tests to check for the reason for this abnormal clotting, and even for the presence of foreign antibodies or phospholipids in your blood sample. This is just a preliminary test to check whether the person is suffering from antiphospholipid antibody syndrome or not. As per the test results, if these antibodies are found at least twice, the blood test conducted periodically in a time duration of 3 months or more. The test results confirm to be suffering from antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

If we take a look at the treatment procedure, doctors often prefer the standard initial treatment method, which includes blood-thinning medications along with other medications. The most common of them being heparin and warfarin, in which Heparin has a fast-acting effect as compared to warfarin and is preferred via injections.

Whereas warfarin comes in the form of pills, with extended-release effect i.e. the medication may take several days to effect. Even aspirin can also be used as a blood-thinning agent but is not recommended as a general treatment of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

When you are on the dosage of blood-thinning agents as mentioned above, it increases your bold clot timing. According to your medication dosage, the doctor will monitor your blood test reports to make sure that blood is capable of clotting itself in enough simulated time. But if you are on blood-thinning medications, then you need to keep yourself away from situations that may injure yourself, in order to avoid bleeding. Even till the time you are o medication, try to avoid any physical activities including sports, that may likely cause injury, leading to the blood clots.

Not only medicines, but you can also use certain natural foods supplements that can help you in your medication procedure.

• Eventually, it has been seen that Vitamin K can lessen the effect of warfarin, but not other blood-thinning agents like aspirin or heparin. So if you are seeking medical advice for antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, then you need to avoid eating food that contains a reasonable amount of vitamin K in them such as avocado, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and garbanzo beans. Even the consumption of alcohol and cranberry can increase warfarin’s blood-thinning effect, so it’s highly advised to avoid drinking.
• It has been witnessed that certain medications like pain relievers, cold medicines, multivitamins, and herbal products have the ability to react dangerously with warfarin medication. Even consuming a high amount of garlic, ginkgo or green tea products is also not advised during the medication period of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

Well in most cases, it is common to witness different complications which are often related to antiphospholipid syndromes such as deep vein thrombosis commonly termed as DVT, stroke or even pregnancy loss. If you witness any of the above conditions, it’s an alarm that you need to seek doctor’s advice. Depending on the stage of syndrome, it’s often recommended to visit doctors with specialization in vascular disease, obstetric or even you can visit any hematologic.

When you visit your doctor, seek any help online and be responsive to any of the restrictions before the appointment. For such diseases doctors do require your complete information, so do get yourself prepared by making a list in advanced of these following questionnaire:

• The signs and symptoms you have been noticing and from when you have been facing them.
• Any major event that occurred till now, which may likely affect your condition
• Any past major ailment or infections that you or your family member had, especially if it’s related to antiphospholipid syndrome.
• List of all medications and supplements that you took in recent, which may likely affect your condition as well as syndrome. Even at times, doctor may be interested to know about your dosage of these medicines.

Even during your appointment with the doctor, patients are likely to face some of the following questions like any past history of stroke or blood clots, any event regarding pregnancy like miscarriage or cases of stillbirth, symptoms of lupus or any other disease mainly related to immune disorders, noticed red rash on wrists and knees and even do you indulge in habits including smoking or drinking. If you have been reported with the majority of these questions, likely high chances are there for you to be diagnosed with Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome.

In most of the cases, if this syndrome is not properly treated within a proper span of time, the syndrome is likely to turn into catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome popularly known as CAPS. Being quite a rare disease it had potentially life-threatening conditions associated with it, which may even lead to multiple organ failure. CAPS is the most severe form of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and its probability of developing is even less than 1% from the classical syndrome. As per the reports from the APS Foundation, it is estimated that 1 to 5 % of the U.S. population are thought to have antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. Even the reports also suggested that this disease affects women three to five times than men, in which pulmonary embolism and blood clots in the lungs are common. Even in many women, ischemic stroke is seen more often than men in such syndromes.

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