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The word anemia is a latin word meaning "complete lack of blood in the organism" (prefix "a" in latin means "without", in this case "without blood"). A term which is not completely accurate, but nevertheless, it found its place in medicine. In practice, anemia means "decreased number of erythrocytes and/or quantity of haemoglobin in blood". Some authors define anemia as a negative balance of heamoglobin, which is partialy true, because there are some anemias in which the number of erythrocytes is not decreased, but the quantity of heamoglobin in them is. Therefore, the overall quantity of heamoglobin in blood is decreased, but the overall/normal number of erythrocytes remains unchanged. And vice versa.
Primarily, causes of anemia would be:1. increased loss od blood (traumatic injuries and such),2. increased erythrolysis ("destruction" of erythrocytes),3. decreased intensity of erythropoiesis (creation of erythrocytes).
Secondary, it arises as a consequence of another pathological conditions: tumors, contagious diseases, etc.
Symptoms: apathia, fatigue, tachycardia (increased heart rate), hyperpnea (increased breathing rate), paleness of visible mucouses, etc.
As for the therapy for anemia, your best choice would be to consult the veterinarian, because there can be wide broad of therapies of use. They all have two main purposes: to prevent the cause of anemia (if possible) and to revert the blood parameters to normal state. Your best shot would be application of several minerals (Fe, Mg, Ca...) and vitamins (vit. A, C, B complex) and preferably amino-acids and proteins. But that is just the simplest one. It would take at least several pages to describe all of them, considering how many anemias there are.
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