Fanconi Anaemia
Overview

Fanconi anemia or FA, is a rare, inherited blood disorder that leads to bone marrow failure. The disorder also is called Fanconi’s anemia.
FA prevents your bone marrow from making enough new blood cells for your body to work normally. FA also can cause your bone marrow to make many faulty blood cells. This can lead to serious health problems, such as leukemia (a type of blood cancer).
Although FA is a blood disorder, it also can affect many of your body’s organs, tissues, and systems. Children who inherit FA are at higher risk of being born with birth defects. FA also increases the risk of some cancers and other serious health problems.
FA is different from Fanconi syndrome. Fanconi syndrome affects the kidneys. It’s a rare and serious condition that mostly affects children.
Children who have Fanconi syndrome pass large amounts of key nutrients and chemicals through their urine. These children may have serious health and developmental problems.
The most usual symptoms are:
- Anemia
- Bone marrow failure
- Birth defects
- Developmental or eating problems
FA is an inherited disorder. It is passed from parents to children through genes. If a child has FA, his or her brothers and sisters also should be tested for the disorder.
Anemia: The most common symptom of all types of anemia is fatigue (tiredness). Fatigue occurs because your body doesn’t have enough red blood cells to carry oxygen to its various parts. If you have anemia, you may not have the energy to do normal activities. A low red blood cell count also can cause shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, coldness in your hands and feet, pale skin, and chest pain.
Bone Marrow Failure: When your bone marrow fails, it can’t make enough red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. This can cause many problems that have various signs and symptoms. With too few red blood cells, you can develop anemia. In FA, the size of your red blood cells also can be much larger than normal. This makes it harder for the cells to work well. With too few white blood cells, you’re at risk for infections. Infections also may last longer and be more serious than normal. With too few platelets, you may bleed and bruise easily, suffer from internal bleeding, or have petechiae. Petechiae are tiny red or purple spots on the skin. Bleeding in small blood vessels just below your skin causes these spots.
In some people who have FA, the bone marrow makes a lot of harmful, immature white blood cells called blasts. Blasts don’t work like normal blood cells. As they build up, they prevent the bone marrow from making enough normal blood cells.
A large number of blasts in the bone marrow can lead to a type of blood cancer called acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Birth Defects: Many birth defects can be signs of FA. These include:
Bone or skeletal defects. FA can cause missing, oddly shaped, or three or more thumbs. Arm bones, hips, legs, hands, and toes may not form fully or normally. People who have FA may have a curved spine, a condition called scoliosis (sco-le-O-sis).
Eye and ear defects. The eyes, eyelids, and ears may not have a normal shape. Children who have FA also might be born deaf.
Skin discoloration. This includes coffee-colored areas or odd-looking patches of lighter skin.
Kidney problems. A child who has FA might be born with a missing kidney or kidneys that aren’t shaped normally.
Congenital heart defects. The most common congenital heart defect linked to FA is a ventricular septal defect (VSD). A VSD is a hole or defect in the lower part of the wall that separates the heart’s left and right chambers.
Developmental Problems
Other signs and symptoms of FA are related to physical and mental development. They include:
- Low birth weight
- Poor appetite
- Delayed growth
- Below-average height
- Small head size
- Mental retardation or learning disabilities
- Signs and Symptoms of Fanconi Anemia in Adults
Some signs and symptoms of FA may develop as you or your child gets older. Women who have FA may have some or all of the following:
- Sex organs that are less developed than normal
- Menstruating later than women who don’t have FA
- Starting menopause earlier than women who don’t have FA
- Problems getting pregnant and carrying a pregnancy to full term
Men who have FA may have sex organs that are less developed than normal. They also may be less fertile than men who don’t have the disease.
Fanconi anemia (FA) is an inherited disease. The term “inherited” means that the disease is passed from parents to children through genes. At least 13 faulty genes are associated with FA. FA occurs when both parents pass the same faulty FA gene to their child.
People who have only one faulty FA gene are FA “carriers.” Carriers don’t have FA, but they can pass the faulty gene to their children.
If both of your parents have a faulty FA gene, you have:
A 25 percent chance of having FA
A 25 percent chance of not having FA
A 50 percent chance of being an FA carrier and passing the gene to any children you have
If only one of your parents has a faulty FA gene, you won’t have the disorder. However, you have a 50 percent chance of being an FA carrier and passing the gene to any children you have.
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It is important to not add further toxicity to your system so try to adhere to the following:
- Do not consume any artificial sweeteners, such as Splenda, NutraSweet or Aspartame
- Do not consume high fructose corn syrup or mono-sodium glutamate.
- Do not drink any carbonated beverages.
- Avoid all fast food restaurants.
- Avoid all canned food.
- Eliminate conventional dairy products. The best dairy products are raw, unpasteurised and homogenised dairy from grass fed cows. If this is unavailable, then buy organic dairy.
- Avoid conventional beef. The best beef is organic grass fed beef. www.grasslandbeef.com/StoreFront.bok?affld=104400 The second best is organic meat; this includes beef, veal, lamb, chicken and turkey.
Supplements:
- Take Vitamin D3 50,000-100,000 International Units a day for periods of 4 weeks at a time.
- Wholefood supplements are the best way of ensuring your nutritional needs are met. The best we know on the market is Kevin Trudeau’s “KT Daily” product. You can find more details here kevintrudeaudailylifesessentials.com/
- Take an Omega 3 supplement:
Prescription and non-prescription medication:
What non-prescription and prescription drugs are you taking? Your non-prescription and prescription are partially the reason that you have this illness or disease – you need to get off these medications but do so only under the guidance of a licensed health care practitioner.
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