Anemia /Low Haemoglobin Causes

What are the Causes of Anemia?

Any process that disrupts the normal life span of an RBC causes anemia.

Causes of anemia include:

• Increased physiological demand for more red blood cells e.g. increased physical activity.
• In children, during spurts of growth.
• In women during menstruation, pregnancy, parturition and lactation.

• Inadequate dietary intake due to poor economic reasons or dietary foods.
• Decreased absorption due to disorders in the digestive system.
• Peptic ulcer, piles, hiatus hernia, carcinoma of stomach and carcinoma colon can cause anemia.
• Chronic ingestion of a certain type of pain relievers.
• Hookworm infestation.