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What Does The Following Blood Test Report Indicate?

I am 44 yrld known case of anaemia. Today my hemoglobin is 6.1, iron level is 1.7UMOL/ L, MCV 50,RDW- CV=23.8. Peripheral smear shows moderate microcytic hypochromic aneamia with anisopoikilocytosis, ovalocates, epillocytes and cigar shaped cells with mild reactive thrombocytopenia...what exactly I am suffering from. I don t have any symptoms. And I feel great. I am diabetic on montherapy.
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Microcytic hypochromic anemia can be due to different possible causes but the most common cause is iron deficiency anemia.

Your doctor may want to check your iron levels to see if this definitely the cause of your anemia.

If the anemia has developed slowly or has been ongoing for a long period of time then the body adapts and there are no symptoms.

The anemia needs to be treated however because the body does not operate at its optimal level with this degree of anemia.

If it is iron deficiency, you would be given iron replacement.
If there is another cause then this would be treated.

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What Does The Following Blood Test Report Indicate?

HI, thanks for using healthcare magic Microcytic hypochromic anemia can be due to different possible causes but the most common cause is iron deficiency anemia. Your doctor may want to check your iron levels to see if this definitely the cause of your anemia. If the anemia has developed slowly or has been ongoing for a long period of time then the body adapts and there are no symptoms. The anemia needs to be treated however because the body does not operate at its optimal level with this degree of anemia. If it is iron deficiency, you would be given iron replacement. If there is another cause then this would be treated. I hope this helps