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What are the features of sickle cell anemia?
being pale having headaches looking jaudice
What condition is the most nutrition responsive?
The condition that is known for being the most nutrition responsive is iron- deficiency anemia. This also apples to sickle-cell anemia.
A hereditary blood disease causing suppressed hemoglobin production is?
There are a number of them, one of them being sickle cell anemia.
What is the advantage of being heterozygous for the sickle cell allele?
Sickle cell trait carries a lower risk of serious malarial disease, without the signs and symptoms of sickle-cell anemia.
Being a carrier of sickle cell anemia means?
sickle cell anemia is caused by a recessive allele. so for it to affect someone, it means that the person must have received both recessive alleles from their parents. Being a carrier means that you have the recessive allele from one of your parents, but you have a normal dominant allele from the other parent, that means you are not affected by it but you are carrying it.
What does sickle-cell anemia do to the body?
Well reag anemia is where your red blod cells produced from bone marrow are very low in quantity. Your not having enough produced. Sickle cell is the same but the few being produced are shaped diff and in a way deformed and your RBC carry oxygen throughout body so with sickle cell the RBC u do have aren't healthy and can't appropriately deliver oxygen in reag anemia they can appropriately deliv oxygen but there are very few
Is sickle cell infectious or non infectious disease?
IT is an inherited blood disorder that affects hemoglobin. it occurs when a person inherits two abnormal genes that cause there RBCs to change shape .instead of being flexible and disc- shaped , these cells are more stiff and curved. it is not an infectious disease .
How do you treat sickle cell anemia?
Sickle-cell anemia is a genetic disorder, so you can only get it by being born with it. Sickle-cell anemia is much more prevalent in people of African descent because of its evolutionary advantage in regions where malaria is common. While having sickle-cell anemia is clearly detrimental to survival, having only one allele (instead of both) of the gene coding for sickle-cell anemia results in higher tolerance to the effects of malaria once infected with it. The greater number of people having only one allele leads to greater chance of their offspring having both, resulting in sickle-cell disease.
How is sickle cell anemia iherited?
Recessively, that means that both parents must be symptomless carriers then there is only a 1 in 4 chance that a given child will be born with the disease. Note: symptomless carriers have the strong advantage of being much more likely to survive malaria than "normals". Sickle cell disease is inherited through a single pair of genes (one gene from each parent), on chromosome 11. They must receive the gene from both parents in order to actually get sickle cell disease. If they receive one gene for sickle cell disease from one parent but a normal gene from another, they have "sickle cell trait." The genes that involve sickle cell control the production of hemoglobin (a protein) in red blood cells. Abnormal hemoglobin from sickle cell disease causes red blood cells to grow incorrectly. Persons with sickle cell trait are much more resistant to malaria (a common disease in Africa, where the gene originated) than persons having two normal genes. This makes the sickle cell gene very likely to persist in areas where malaria is endemic, like Africa.
Can a person with sickle cell anemia get a tattoo?
Yes, it would not prevent it, however, if they are being treated, they should discuss it with their physician to avoid problems with medication preventing clotting or similar issues.
If a child is diagnosed with sickle cell anemia what does that mean?
Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disorder where red blood cells are misshapen, causing them to get stuck in blood vessels and leading to pain, organ damage, and other complications. It can cause episodes of pain, anemia, infections, and can affect multiple organs in the body. Treatment focuses on managing symptoms and preventing complications.
What body systems are most affected by sickle cell anemia?
In a nutshell, it makes your RBCs (Red Blood cells) sickle shaped. The RBCs can't pick up as much oxygen so you may have trouble breathing. They also collect around the joints causing extreme pain.
