Fava bean disease is a genetic disease that cannot be fully recovered from, but as the body’s immunity increases with age, the disease usually improves after the age of 3.
Fava bean disease is classified as a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, which manifests as hemolytic anemia after eating fava beans. Since G6PD deficiency is hereditary and congenital, it cannot be cured, but may become less severe when the child is a little older and the body functions better. Children with broad bean disease usually have no symptoms like normal children, but eating broad beans or taking certain oxidizing drugs, such as sulfonamides and antipyretic drugs, can cause acute hemolysis, so the disease is important to prevent.
Children with broad bean disease cannot eat broad beans and their products, nursing mothers cannot eat broad beans, nor can they use drugs that may cause hemolysis, such as antipyretics and sulfonamides, while the use of mothballs at home is not recommended.