Anemia

By running some blood-tests if you have symptoms that indicate you have the disease. Some of those symptoms are anemia, jaundice, pain in long bones, abdomen pain etc. One of those test is "sickle solubility test." If it is positive, you have sickle cell anemia, another one is electrophoresis.

The main difference is that Iron-Deficiency Anemia is caused by lack of iron, and therefore low haemaglobin levels. Pernicious anamia is caused by a lack of vitimin B12 which aids the production and growth of red blood cells, therefore lowering the haemaglobin level, and both would have a lowered hematocrit level.

Heterozygous induviduals pass the dominant and recessive alleles to offspring

Describe the effect that sickle cell anemia has on the sedimentation rate!

1 have o good hygiene

2 when brushing your teeth scrape your tongue gently too

3 eat healthy

4 don't sip too hot soup/liquid

5 don't put sharp objects in your mouth

6 don't lick dirty objects to avoid infection

7 avoid too spicy food

8 always gargle or rinse your mouth after eating

9 don't swallow inedible object esp chemicals

10 avoid tongue piercing as much as possible

Eatting foods high in iron (usually greens) will prevent anemia.

" My doctor told me that the reason I had been feeling so tired lately was due to having anemia."

Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for iron by age and sex.Age/GroupLife StageIron (mg/day)Infants0-6 months0.27*7-12 months11Children1-3 years74-8 years10Males9-13 years814-18 years1119-30 years831-50 years851-70 years8>70 years8Females9-13 years814-18 years1519-30 years1831-50 years1851-70 years8>70 years8Pregnant Women14-18 years2719-30 years2731-50 years27Lactating Women14-18 years1019-30 years931-50 years9

The Indian population was using the iron utensils for ages. They never had the iron deficiency anaemia in the past. I have seen the age when the aluminium utensils were introduced in the India. I have seen the population getting impressed by the stainless steel utensils. When I tell my patients to use to iron utensils, they think that i am cracking a joke. I could not convince the single patient to use the iron utensils. The pots should not be cleaned before cooking. The rust of the previous day is more precious than the gold. So you do not use the iron utensils and you get the iron deficiency anaemia.

A protein within red blood cells that binds with oxygen in the lungs and transports it throughout the body. Hemoglobin is responsible for making blood red in color.

the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood.
Heme is the iron containing molecule and the globulin is the protein. Altogether it is Hemoglobin.

Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells.

Thalassemias, (alpha, beta, and their subdivisions) are genetic disorders, affecting the number and the oxygen/carbon dioxide carrying ability of the erythrocytes. The later is due to defective heamoglobin structure.

The disease's severity depends on the severity of the defect, and the treatment likewise. For example, defect in Alpha thalassemia silent is very mild, therefore treatment might not even be necessary.

Treatments for the more severe types include blood transfusion, iron chelation, vitamin and folic acid supplementation, surgical removal of the spleen (in Alpha thalassemia major).

Researches into new treatments include donor blood and marrow stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, and activation of fetal haemoglobin.

The sickle cells can block the flow of blood through vessels resulting in lung tissue damage (acute chest syndrome), pain episodes (arms, legs, chest and abdomen), stroke and priapism (painful prolonged erection). It also causes damage to most organs including the spleen, kidneys and liver. Damage to the spleen makes sickle cell disease patients, especially young children, easily overwhelmed by certain bacterial infections. All The above mentiond causes will appeare if the patient not get proper medication

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It won't kill you if that's what you mean, but you will get intoxicated faster, will dehydrate faster and you're likely to become dizzy.

Alcohol can cause anemia and could therefore add to your problem and slow down your recovery, so I would be judicious in its use.

Yes, Sickle Cell-Anemia is a genetic condition that is passed down from one generation to the other.

Sickle Cell Anemia is Autosomal Recessive. It arises from a mutation on the beta-globin gene of chromosome 11.

Because Sickle Cell Anemia is an example of incomplete dominance, a person has the disease if they have two mutated beta-globin genes but only has the trait (is a carrier) if they have only one mutated beta-globin gene.

yes

Decreased red blood cell concentration in the blood may lead to decreased intensity of red color in a blood sample. Red blood cells are the formed element that gives blood its expected color.

No. It is a generally found only in the African/ American community.

you should increase your water intake as much as you can to prevent dehydration and take pain killer in a crisis and take amoxil to prevent infection with supplemental folic acid to increase RBC production

and there is new drug called hydroxyurea which increase hemoglobin F which characterized by high affinity to oxygen which might prevent the crisis or make them milder...

Yes, as it is an iron deficiency. Red blood cells are made with it by the body and these are important to foetal development. Remember though that too much iron is also dangerous. Maternal anemia will not affect the baby as the baby will take what it needs, but it will affect the mother if severe and can be extremely dangerous in labor.

Because individuals who inherit the gene from only one parent produce red blood cells which are distorted. This distortion makes the cells unpalatable to malaria parasites, without seriously harming the individual. This tends to protect against malaria and that protection causes selection for this allele. Individuals who get the sickle cell gene from both parents suffer serious distortion of the red blood cells. This protects against malaria, but also reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of the red cells to a dangerous degree. This causes a disease called sickle-cell anaemia, which causes selection against the gene. In malarial regions a balance is established. When a population with sickle cell alleles moves to an area with effectively no malaria present, the sickle cell alleles are steadily selected against. This shifts the balance steadily towards low levels.

anemia causes increased production of vascular endothelial relaxing factor that causes dilatation of the vasculature producing oedema.