What are the symptoms of hgb e/beta thal disease of an infant.please advice.

Hgb E/beta: The symptoms may be mild or life threatening. Careful monitoring and tailoring of symptoms is needed.

Trait or disease?: If junior simply carries one dose / one abnormal gene, he/she will be well and have no problems from it. If junior has two genes, he/she will already be seriously anemic. I am more worried about you, from reading your description. Your very heavy periods have made you ill, and perhaps there is a reason that can be found so you will not need to be transfused.

None to mild symptom: It is a form of beta thalasemia and is predominant in south east asia.It can be mild or severe presentation like mild form has normal hemoglobin 9to12grms/dl abour15%of cases patients have no significant symptoms moderately severe form babies are normal at birth and symptoms do not appear till age of 1year and can be irritability, shortness of breath and palor and slow growth.Some infants no sympt.