Sickle-cell anemia
a serious disorder in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells. “Sickle-shaped” means that the red blood cells are shaped like a crescent
References
- Sickle cell anemia is caused by an abnormal type of hemoglobin, a protine inside red blood cells that carries oxygen. Hemoglobin S changes the red blood cells and makes them look like a sickle.
- When the red blood cells become sickle shaped they also become stiff and inflexible unlike normal red blood cells, these blood cells cant misshape to go threw tiny blood vessel causing blockage.
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- http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_symptoms_of_sickle-cell_disease_000058_3.htm
- http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3/429.abstract
Birth defects
Treatment
- its a heredity birth defect, wich means its passed from parent to child during conseption.
- If you and your partner both have this sickle cell gene, it will be passed on to your child.
- only certain people are at risk for developing the sickle cell birth defect. The disorder tends to affect certain cultures more than others, and you are at increased risk for getting sickle cell anemia if you are:
•African American
•Hispanic-American
•Maltese
•Turkish
•Italian
•Greek
•Arabic
- you need ongoing treatment even when your not having a crises.
- Blood transfusions (may also be given regularly to prevent stroke)
- Pain medicines
- Plenty of fluids
symptoms or characteristics
- symptoms very from person to person, They increase in severity as you get older.
- Common sickle cell symptoms include:
•pain in the stomach, legs, and arms
•chest pain
•extreme fatigue
•growth problems
•frequent illness and infection
mental symptoms.
- less satisfaction of there bodies.
- more depression than there healthy. peers.
- spend less time in social activity's
- suggest that three areas of adjustment will be effected.