Treatments

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• People with severe hemophilia require frequent infusions of clotting factor concentrates. Fortunately stricter medical practices and advancements in the medical field have done away with a variety of problems hemophiliacs had in the past with blood transfusions.
• ​In the 1960 whole blood or fresh plasma tranfusions were used to treate hemophiliacs. Unfortunately these treatments lacked a high enough factor concentration of the VIII or IX proteins which the patients needed. In addition many hemophiliacs contracted blood-borne viruses such as heatitis C and HIV from the blood that saved them (Canadians) 
• Fortunately the life span of people affected with hemophilia has made tremendous strides. Today clotting factor infusions therapy allows individuals to live a relatively normal life span.