Sign of leukemia

Early sign of Leukemia: Leukemia, or in plain English, blood cancer often doesn’t exhibit any warning signs or symptoms, though tiredness (increased production of white blood cells using up the lion’s share of the body's energy being responsible), Weight loss (increased production of white blood cells uses up calories), unexplained headaches and frayed sensations (WBCs infiltrating the central nervous system), pallor (increased number of WBCs crowding out red blood cells), enlarged lymph nodes, unusual night sweats, bone pain and abdominal fullness are all considered possible early signs of leukemia.

Sign of Leukemia: The actual Symptoms Though we mentioned earlier a few signs that may indicate leukemia, the five symptoms that confirm are as follows:

· Extreme fatigue: Though energy levels vary from person to person, but this kind of fatigue is uncommon if not a person is a victim of the disease. Marked by a sudden feeling of collapsing or becoming tired after a few minutes of typing or similar other light jobs are thus a concern.

· Painful swelling of lymph nodes or spleen: Indistinct lymph nodes, when become visible all in a sudden in the neck, groin, and under arms, followed by heavy sweating at night and a shortness of breath, it denotes leukemia.

· Nausea: A symptom that starts out in the form of an upset stomach, often gives rise to severe sickness (e.g. flu) that do not go away very easily. If it happens combined with any other symptoms mentioned above, an immediate medical advice would be the right thing to go for.

· Back and joint pain: These show up only during the nighttime, but never at the same place and are short-lived ones.

· Severe weight loss; What starts off as a loss in appetite and constant indigestion soon turns a person weak, rendering the body unable to fight back infections and other diseases that might set in.

Signs of Leukemia and the warning regarding medicines: A fast relief is everybody’s wish list when it comes to ailments; Gleevec, the pill that was meant for an easy recovery from leukemia, has been reported for causing serious heart damages. This alone proves the importance of the warning regarding medicines for leukemia; however, if watched closely by medical professionals, it can do more good than damage.

· Jugulo-digastric area or the Tonsillar lymph node: Suggests an infection.

· Posterior triangle: Multiple, small, non-tender nodes indicate a sub-clinical viral infection.

A cyst, on the other hand, could remain present in these regions from the time of birth, the cause being as varied as lymphangioma or cystic hygroma or haemangioma.

A detailed reading is available at http://www.droid.cuhk.edu.hk/web/specials/lymph_nodes/lymph_nodes.htm

Signs of Feline Leukemia: A retrovirus that infects cats, the FelV is usually transmitted between infected cats through saliva and/or nasal secretions and currently has no known cure. Common symptoms produced by the feline leukemia virus include depression, weight loss, decreased appetite, diarrhea or constipation, enlarged lymph nodes, respiratory distress, or excessive drinking and urination. Cancer occurs in some cats that are infected with leukemia. This virus also interferes with a cat’s immune system and makes it susceptible towards other infections. Inteferon Omega, sold under the name Virbagen Omega has been reported to delay deaths in non-anemic cats. Further detailed reading material can be found at http://www.cathospitalofaustin.com/Library/feline_leukemia.htm.