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What is Hemophilia?

Original Article: 

Hemophilia (heem-o-FILL-ee-ah) is a rare bleeding disorder in which the blood doesn't clot normally.

If you have hemophilia, you may bleed for a longer time than others after an injury. You also may bleed inside your body (internally), especially in your knees, ankles, and elbows. This bleeding can damage your organs and tissues and may be life threatening.

Overview

Hemophilia usually is inherited. "Inherited” means that the disorder is passed from parents to children through genes.

People born with hemophilia have little or no clotting factor. Clotting factor is a protein needed for normal blood clotting. There are several types of clotting factors. These proteins work with platelets (PLATE-lets) to help the blood clot.

Platelets are small blood cell fragments that form in the bone marrow—a sponge-like tissue in the bones. Platelets play a major role in blood clotting. When blood vessels are injured, clotting factors help platelets stick together to plug cuts and breaks on the vessels and stop bleeding.

The two main types of hemophilia are A and B. If you have hemophilia A, you're missing or have low levels of clotting factor VIII (8). About 8 out of 10 people who have hemophilia have type A. If you have hemophilia B, you're missing or have low levels of clotting factor IX (9).

Rarely, hemophilia can be acquired. "Acquired” means you aren't born with the disorder, but you develop it during your lifetime. This can happen if your body forms antibodies (proteins) that attack the clotting factors in your bloodstream. The antibodies can prevent the clotting factors from working.

Key Ideas:

• The disease is mostly inherited but can also be acquired through your lifetime (rarely)
• The disease causes the victim to bleed longer in injuries
• People who inherit it have very little clotting factors 
• People who acquire it have antibodies that disrupt the blood stream

Paraphrased:

One of the benefits of designer babies is the fact that it can prevent genetically inherited diseases to the next generation line. One of these diseases that are prevented through designer babies is Hemophilia. Hemophilia is the disease of which makes the person of which inherited it bleed longer in injuries and may bleed internally in areas such us knees, ankles and elbows. This act of internal bleeding is very dangerous to the body as it can  very well damage organs, tissues and might result to death. The disease is normally inherited from parents to children. People who inherit Hemophilia from parents have very little blood clotting. The proteins that clot the blood is called clotting factors. These clotting factors work together with platelets to stop blood from bleeding when blood vessels are injured. This act is called blood clotting. Hemophilia can very rarely be gotten through your lifetime and not gotten from birth. This is caused by the antibodies produced by your body of which attack factors in the bloodstream. This prevent the act of clotting from working properly.