In view of thalassemia-enquiry-based blood reports, my partner carries Hb E Heterozygous, while I carry Hb E Trait Heterozygous. Now that we have planned to be married, I seek answers to the following questions I may hope you would deal with care and to our satisfaction: Questions:01. Our issue is going to be a thalassemia patient? 02. If yes, what kind of thalassemia is he/she going to carry? 03. If yes, then what is the possibility rate of such a baby born ? I mean 25%/ 50%/ 75%? 04. Is it a rare combination? And in that case, we should strictly stop ourselves from marriage and childbirth?
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Hi Lybrate user. In view of both the partner having Hb E carrier status, your children will have 25% chance of being normal, 50 % chance of having HbE carrier status (like you) and 25% chance of having HbE disease. Only HbE disease have mild symptoms of anemia and jaundice and generally does not require blood transfusion, and can be treated with oral medicines. In rest if the situation it is completely normal and asymptomatic and needs no treatment. So, do not worry about marriage and childbirth.
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There's 25% chance of normal, 25% chance of HbE homozygous and 50% chances of HbE trait. We can do your mutation studies from blood. This will help in finding the nature of thal mutation in pregnancy and predict the genetic nature in the baby by doing prenatal diagnosis.
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