If you are diagnosed with strep, you will stop being contagious approximately 24 hours after starting an antibiotic. Antibiotics should help alleviate your symptoms within one or two days, although in some people the symptoms may last up to a week.
Testing can be done before a baby is born to find out if it has thalassemia and determine how severe it may be. Tests used to diagnose thalassemia in fetuses include: 1  Chorionic villus sampling. 2  This test is usually done around the 11th week of pregnancy and involves removing a tiny piece of the placenta for evaluation.3  Amniocentesis.f your doctor suspects your child has thalassemia, he or she may confirm a diagnosis using blood tests. If your child has thalassemia, blood tests may reveal: 1  A low level of red blood cells. 2  Smaller than expected red blood cells.
The thalassemias are a group of genetic blood diseases that cause a reduction of the production of normal hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin is a protein carried by the red blood cells, which brings oxygen to all the parts of the body.The reduction of hemoglobin in the blood results in anemia.There are two types of thalassemia, alpha thalassemia and beta thalassemia, depending on which protein chain of the hemoglobin molecule is missing in the red blood cells.he thalassemias are especially common in areas where there are high rates of malaria, such as southeast Asia, China, the Mediterranean, and Africa. Women and their partners who want to become pregnant and who come from these areas should undergo testing to determine whether they carry the thalassemia trait.