Other precautions

Preventive dental care can reduce the need for tooth extractions and dental surgery. Care includes:

• regular tooth brushing
• supplemental fluoride treatment
• regular dental check-ups.

Babies should not be put to bed with bottles once their first teeth appear. Children should avoid snacks with lots of sugar.

The use of a helmet when skating, skate boarding, or riding a bike is recommended for everybody. Its use in people with a bleeding disorder is even more important.

Yes. It is important that all people living with bleeding disiorders engage in regular exercise to keep their muscles and joints strong and their health good. Being in good physical condition can actually reduce the number of bleeding episodes a person has.

A woman with a bleeding disorder will have to find out for herself what physical activities she can or cannot do. Many people with a mild disorder participate in all kinds of sports including active sports like soccer and high risk sports like skiing. Women with more severe forms may find these activities lead to serious bleeding.

Specialists at the Hemophilia / Bleeding Disorder Clinic can advise a woman of the risks based on an evaluation of her condition. For more information, see Can a person with hemophilia play sports? in the Hemophilia A and B section.

Yes, there are. Hepatitis B can still be transmitted by certain blood products. The vaccine against hepatitis B is recommended for all people who routinely receive blood or blood products.

In very rare cases, hepatitis A has been transmitted by blood products. Therefore, doctors recommend vaccination against hepatitis A for people who receive blood or blood products. This is especially important for people who are infected with hepatitis C. This is because hepatitis A can be a serious, even fatal, disease for people who have hepatitis C.