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Thalassaemia minor and cousin marriages

Salaams,

I need to ask whether it´s okay to marry your first cousin if only one of us has thallaesemia minor? and what about other diseases that our children can get due to marriage in the same blood line?

We are both thalassemia carriers, should we try for a baby or give up?

When we got married we both knew we were thalassemia carriers. (Thalassemia is an inherited disorder. It leads to the decreased production and increased destruction of red blood cells). We had a baby once and found that baby was a thalassaemia major and we did an abortion thinking of the baby’s future. We want to have […]