idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura hereditary

ITP is not a hereditary condition although there is another condition called familial thrombocytopenia which is often gets mistakenly diagnosed as ITP.

Basically, ITP isn't considered to be "hereditary", but it is an autoimmune disease, so that means that it or any of the other autoimmune diseases can be passed along to your children. I was diagnosed in 2002 and have researched it and asked my hematologist about this. He told me that because my parents had autoimmune diseases (none of which were ITP) that put me at a greater risk of having an autoimmune disease as well. Mine just happened to be ITP. And I also ended up with another one called Antiphospholipid Syndrome. He told me to make sure to get my children checked for these to make sure that they don't end up with them, especially my daughter because it is shows up more in girls/women than in guys. Hope this helps you out. And, oh yea, I don't know your age or anything, but there's one kind that if you're in your teens and early twenties that you can out-grow it sometimes. It is still ITP but it's not the chronic ITP.

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kylie1554 wrote:

Hello! My doctor told me that I have the following problem. What I want to know something basic about it. I have idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. I would like to check here is it hereditary? I am afraid for that fact. It would be nice to hear any possible opinion. Thanks for any respond about this.

Basically, ITP isn't considered to be "hereditary", but it is an autoimmune disease, so that means that it or any of the other autoimmune diseases can be passed along to your children. I was diagnosed in 2002 and have researched it and asked my hematologist about this. He told me that because my parents had autoimmune diseases (none of which were ITP) that put me at a greater risk of having an autoimmune disease as well. Mine just happened to be ITP. And I also ended up with another one called Antiphospholipid Syndrome. He told me to make sure to get my children checked for these to make sure that they don't end up with them, especially my daughter because it is shows up more in girls/women than in guys. Hope this helps you out. And, oh yea, I don't know your age or anything, but there's one kind that if you're in your teens and early twenties that you can out-grow it sometimes. It is still ITP but it's not the chronic ITP.

I had the kind you out grow when I was two years old until I was 6 or 7. I'm female and now 53 years old in good health. I remember a lot of visits to "childrens hospital" for regular blood tests back when a little kid. I was poked with more needles and I fought so hard that they had to strap me down each time I went for these tests. My mother couldn't even be in the same building I screamed so loud. My father always got the job of going in with me. Poor man. As the years passed I had to go less and less until eventually I didn't need to be tested any longer. This was in the 60's. I had two healthy boys in the 80's and so far no sign of ITP in my two grand children 1and a half and 3yrs old. Both girls. good luck to anyone out there with ITP.