Care and Mobility Considerations

Symptoms are many and varied but are usually not severe, and do not normally cause any significant impairment of mobility, or the ability to carry out all the various activities of daily living.

Treatment usually brings about relief of many symptoms. People may suffer functional impairment and disability as the result of primary medical conditions causing polycythaemia, and also following certain complications of polycythaemia, e.g, stroke.

None of the types of polycythaemia are infectious. The condition cannot be passed on to family or friends.