What is anaemia and what are the symptoms?
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What is anaemia?
Anaemia means:
- You have less red blood cells than normal, or
- You have less haemoglobin than normal in each red blood cell.
In either case, a reduced amount of oxygen is carried around in the bloodstream.
What are the symptoms of anaemia?
- Common symptoms are due to the reduced amount of oxygen in the body. These include: tiredness, lethargy, feeling faint, becoming easily breathless.
- Less common symptoms include: headaches, palpitations, altered taste, and ringing in the ears (tinnitus).
- You may look pale.
- Various other symptoms may develop, depending on the underlying cause of the anaemia.
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