explain erythroblastosis foetalis
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Erythroblastosis fetalis, also called hemolytic disease of the newborn, type of anemia in which the red blood cells (erythrocytes) of a fetus are destroyed in a maternal immune reaction resulting from a blood group incompatibility between the fetus and its mother. This incompatibility arises when the fetus inherits a certain blood factor from the father that is absent in the mother. Symptoms of erythroblastosis fetalis range from mild to severe; death of the fetus or newborn sometimes results.
Erythroblastosis foetalsis is an alloimmune condition that develops in an Rh positive foetus whose father is Rh positive and mother is Rh negative.
In this order the antibodies developed against the Rh antigen in mother ,cross,placenta and destroy the RBC cells of the Rh positive foetus during second pregnancy.