Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that delivers oxygen and carbon dioxide to tissues and cells of organs and lungs. If its level is lowered (anemia), then the process of respiration in the cells of the body becomes more difficult. This negatively affects human health and well-being. But there is a reverse phenomenon - an increased level of hemoglobin in the blood.
Increased hemoglobin
Hemoglobin, the norm for women of which is 120-160 g / l, can deviate in one direction or another. In general, a deviation from the norm towards an increase is not often encountered, but it does. One of the main reasons is considered to be life in high mountainous areas and too intense physical activity. Such a lifestyle makes a person breathe rarefied air, the transportation of which requires a lot of hemoglobin. The human body adapts to these requirements, increasing the amount of hemoglobin. However, the absence in life of factors contributing to its enhanced production is considered a pathology in which blood clots form and very complex diseases develop.
High hemoglobin in women can occur during pregnancy. After all, this condition entails certain functional changes in the female body, and, therefore, new living conditions. As a result, hemoglobin rises and can reach an indicator of 150-160 units.
High hemoglobin in women can be triggered by an excess of iron in the body or by taking multivitamin complexes. However, the body gradually gets used to it, and the level returns to normal.
High hemoglobin in women is provoked by diseases such as cardiovascular or pulmonary failure, because it is the fair sex that often suffers from such diseases. Other causes are cancer, increased blood density, erythrocytosis, bowel obstruction, heredity ...
The external signs that characterize high hemoglobin in women are sleep disturbance, poor overall health, redness of the skin, high blood pressure, and, moreover, menstruation becomes long and painful.
High hemoglobin in a child
The level of hemoglobin in children's blood depends on gender and age. Therefore, it is not worth panic, it is better to undergo an examination to identify the cause of this deviation.
Taking drugs can increase hemoglobin in children ; high levels of vitamin C and iron in the blood also contribute to the growth trend of protein in red blood cells. There is only one way out - a child on a diet. Lung diseases, and transitional age, and a long stay at altitude can also affect hemoglobin levels.
Deviations from the norm in the direction of increasing protein in red blood cells become the cause for congenital disruption of the heart muscle.
How to reduce
The most correct, and perhaps the only way to reduce hemoglobin is a balanced human diet, which will have to change dramatically. You can not eat red meat, red berries, fruits and vegetables, cereals and offal. Multivitamin complexes that increase hemoglobin should not be taken! But the use of mummies, as noted by experts, brings hemoglobin back to normal and fairly quickly, and it is advised to take it at an increased or a lowered level.