A 6-year-old girl found blood spots on her arm and was diagnosed with leukemia. Is it possible for her to suffer from leukemia because she has blood spots? What are the obvious symptoms in the early stage of leukemia? You'd better go to the hospital for a checkup. The early symptoms of leukemia are as follows:

1, body bleeding

Epidermal hemorrhage is an obvious symptom of childhood leukemia. Because of the disorder of platelet synthesis and abnormal coagulation function, petechiae and ecchymosis appear on the child's skin. In this case, the sail was bleeding and purple spots appeared, which attracted the attention of the family.

2, unexplained pain

Accompanied by excessive proliferation of leukemia cells, local masses, gingival hyperplasia, lymphadenopathy and so on. In children, it can compress nerves and cause pain.

3, low fever for two weeks.

The first symptom of 50% leukemia patients is fever, the body temperature is above 39℃, and the high temperature lasts for a long time. This may be related to functional leukopenia and weakened immune system in children.

4, bone and joint pain

About14 children have bone or joint pain as the main symptom, which is more common in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Because the performance is similar to growing pains, parents often mistake it for growing pains and ignore it.

If you find that your child has one of the above symptoms, you should go to the hospital for screening as soon as possible if you can't judge. For children suspected of leukemia, doctors will conduct a special examination: bone marrow puncture.

A small amount of bone marrow fluid was extracted from the posterior superior iliac spine or sternum with a very thin puncture needle. According to bone marrow samples, the number of hematopoietic cells and adipocytes was evaluated.