• Question: What is anemia?

    Asked by anon-187702 to Stewart on 8 Nov 2018.
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      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      My title is Dr, but I’m not the useful kind of doctor! In fact I was on a flight a couple of years ago where they asked if there was a doctor on board, and luckily there was someone else. The person was fine in the end.

      Anaemia is a disorder where you don’t have as many red blood cells as normal. This is a problem since they carry oxygen around the blood to your different organs, so you feel more tired and can’t do as much. It can be very serious.

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