How often is haemophilia treated and will it hurt?
Everyone is different but your specialist care team will determine how regularly you or your son needs injections of clotting factor. This treatment can be ‘on demand’ (provided before surgery or dentistry or once a bleed has started) or ‘prophylactic’ (provided to prevent bleeds starting in the first place) (click here for more information). In some Haemophilia Centres a play therapist will help to introduce young children to their injections as this can make things seem less daunting. Although the treatment causes mild discomfort, this is nothing to be worried about as you or your son should quickly get used to treatment. If you, or your son, do find injections painful there are also anaesthetic creams that can be applied to the skin before an injection, which significantly reduce any pain.
Everyone is different but your specialist care team will determine how regularly you or your son needs injections of clotting factor. This treatment can be ‘on demand’ (provided before surgery or dentistry or once a bleed has started) or ‘prophylactic’ (provided to prevent bleeds starting in the first place) (click here for more information). In some Haemophilia Centres a play therapist will help to introduce young children to their injections as this can make things seem less daunting. Although the treatment causes mild discomfort, this is nothing to be worried about as you or your son should quickly get used to treatment. If you, or your son, do find injections painful there are also anaesthetic creams that can be applied to the skin before an injection, which significantly reduce any pain.
