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Essay On Anaemia

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Nowadays women care a lot about their body. They want to be as healthy as possible – but the problem is they don’t know much about being healthy or if they are actually healthy. This article will tell you if you have one of the top ten health issues you cannot afford to ignore and how you can avoid it.

Anaemia
When your body lacks red blood cells there isn’t enough iron in your body, because iron produces red blood cells. This carries and stores oxygen in your blood. (Iron deficiency) Anaemia is a disorder where your body has a lack of iron.
The causes of anaemia are: stomach ulcers and bowel/stomach cancer. In woman the most common causes are pregnancies (because your body needs extra iron) or heavy periods. If you have just had a child …show more content…

This condition is not serious because everyone has had it at least once in their lives.
Some causes are medication, low fibre diets, hormonal problems and diseases affecting your colon. If you have very high levels of oestrogen during pregnancy you could develop constipation.
Symptoms of constipation are quite evident because you have troubles passing faeces. But there are other symptoms and they are few bowel movements, taking strain during a bowel movement, abdominal pain, hard/small stools.
To get rid of being constipated, you should drink between two and four glasses of water daily, Drink warm drinks; eat prunes; fruit and vegetables and bran cereal. The last resort would be going to the pharmacy and buying laxatives or a stool softener,
Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is when your pancreas makes insulin. This is when glucose is turned into energy. The insulin made in your body but the cells in your body do not use it effectively. This is when your body is insulin resistant. The pancreas makes more sugar for your cells to use it, but it cannot cope and eventually sugar forms in your blood instead. An average of 8 million people has diabetes and they don’t even know it. An average of 32 000 people have diabetes in South Africa between the ages of 20-79 years

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