Carriers of Thalassemia, either if they are beta or alpha, don't need any treatments because nothing really happens to them. But for people with Thalassemia major, its different. To survive, victims of Thalassemia major have to have regular blood transfusion and iron chelation therapy. There are other treatments as well but they are not as popular as these two.
There is a cure for Thalassemia, but it requires a donor donating blood & marrow stem cells. This is very rare, because it is nearly impossible to find a perfect match of the donor and the patient. If there is a perfect match, the donated blood and marrow stem cells are used to replace the faulty ones of the patient. Its a risky procedure but its a chance....
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