The impact of thalassemia on children is closely related to the degree of anemia. If it is mild anemia, or compensatory anemia, it basically does not affect the child too much, and it will not have a great impact on the child’s growth and development. If thalassemia leads to moderate to severe anemia, it will have a greater impact on the child, mainly in the following aspects: 1. Brain development: If the degree of thalassemia is severe, it will affect the child’s brain development, and the child will usually have dizziness and headache symptoms. If the disease starts early, there may be a certain degree of developmental backwardness in the child’s language function and motor function. For school-age children, it may affect the child’s memory and intellectual development. 2. mental aspect: thalassemia is a kind of hemolytic anemia, so the child will show pale face and lips, depression and weakness, accompanied by sclera yellowing and liver and spleen enlargement, mainly spleen enlargement. 3. appearance aspect: the affected child has a relatively large head, widened eye spacing, low nasal bridge, prominent forehead and cheeks, showing a special face, and the long bones may be fractured; 4. Immunity: if the degree of thalassemia reaches moderate to severe, it will affect the child’s immune function, and the child will have low resistance and be prone to various infectious diseases, such as respiratory tract infections and digestive tract infections, with clinical manifestations of high fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, cough, pneumonia, etc.; 5. Organ function: if the degree of thalassemia is severe, the child needs to be given repeated If thalassemia is severe, the child needs to be given blood transfusions repeatedly, which leads to an overload of iron in the child’s body and affects the functions of various organs, such as heart function, pancreatic function and thyroid function.