Function of blood, their types and blood deficiency diseases

Blood is a fluid connective tissue. It is salty in taste and slightly alkaline in nature. The pH value of blood is 7.4. The color of blood is also different in different castes of different beings.

In human beings, it forms 7–10% of the body weight. Normally, the amount of blood in men is 5–6 liters and the amount of blood in women is half liters less than that of men.

Function of blood:

It is straw- colored fluid, and makes up about 55% of the total blood volume in our body. Plasma is a complex fluid and includes in it organic salts and organic compounds. Organic substances of plasma are soluble.

Plasma contains 90% water content and 10% other substances such as Proteins, glucose, amino acids, lipids, vitamins, enzymes and hormones. The work of plasma in our body is supply of blood to all cells of the body and The waste materials (urea, uric acid) are transported to kidneys for excretion. There are three types of proteins in it.

·         Albumins :- Protein called albumin is found in maximum amount in plasma. This type of protein maintain the pressure of blood in our body.

·         Globulin :- Globulin acts as a protective watch in our body, this means that it works to protect our body from diseases.

·         Fibrinogen :- If we talk about fibrinogen protein then it plays a very important role in our body. This is to prevents blood from flowing through our body’s wound, that is, it is used to make a blood clot in our body. If fibrinogen protein is separated from the plasma, the remaining part is called serum.

45% of blood cells are found in our blood. There are three types of these.

·         Red Blood Cells (RBCs) or erythrocytes

·         White Blood Cells (WBCs) or leucocytes

·         Platelets or thrombocytes

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Blood deficiency is a disease called anemia. Lack of blood means that our body is deficient in iron, hemoglobin and vitamin B-12.

To make up for the lack of blood, we should take the following measures.

• ·         Low carbohydrate food should be eaten.
• ·         Should drink more and more water.
• ·         We should eat food that contains high amounts of vitamin B-12, such as milk products, meet, eggs, fortified breakfast cereals (oats), nutritional yeast products.
• ·         If we talk about vegetables, we should eat green leafy vegetables so that there is no lack of iron in our body.
• ·         We should eat dried fruits and beans.

 

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Ishan Kumar