The available treatment

Regular blood transfusions provide thalassemia patients with the red blood cells they need to survive. Once these red blood cells are broken down, however, the body is left with an excess of iron.

Although iron is essential to the body, excess iron can lead to organ failure and death. It is necessary that this excess iron be removed, or ch-elated, because it stores in the vital organs of the body, such as the heart and liver.

There are varity of medicine that use to chelate over load iron:oral and injection.  Both, they have side effects. The choosing of medicine depends on the amout of accumalated iron and another consederations like the age. Children have to go to the hospital to rid the extra iron after receiving the blood but the adult can use the injection pump.

I could listen to Alex, take notes and summarize it.  Alex is a child suffering from Thalassemia.  Alex needs to deal with:

1-{chelation},It must be around 12 hrs every month.
2-Intravenous medication, regularly blood transfussion, once every three weeks.  He has to get a needle.  It`s stayed in his arm for about six hrs.  Alex described, It`s scarying for few moment when the needle does going in..  .  His mother said, "It means you give a life."