
The disease of blood clotting disorder is one health problem in Indonesia, which received little serious attention.
There are two types of hemophilia are hemophilia A (deficiency factor antihaemophilia or factor eight) and hemophilia B (deficiency factor Christmas or factor nine). In epidemiological, the incidence of hemophilia A is one per 10,000 births a baby boy, much higher than hemophilia B. So, from 10 million people estimated in a residents have a thousand patients with hemophilia.
Approximately 80 percent of people with hemophilia have a family history of similar diseases. Woman is the bearer of the nature of hemophilia. The disease is characterized by spontaneous bleeding and difficult to stop that may occur in the joints, muscles and other body cavities. This can result in pain and disturbance of joint function.
In children, can result in bleeding continues, and even early death. The event can be known when the baby started to learn to crawl. Bleeding can occur continuously after surgery such as tooth extraction light, circumcision or circumcision. Location is most often affected, the knees, elbows ankles, shoulders and wrists.
Handling a first step in case of bleeding is, the patient should be resting. Location of bleeding be compressed with ice , suppressed or heavily, and the elevated location. Then, the bleeding should be treated with clotting factor within 2 hours after the incident, the vein is maintained well and avoid the use of anti-aggregation.
