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Sickle-Cell Disease
Sickle-cell disease is a genetic blood disorder wherein the red blood cells are irregularly shaped due to the blood’s lowered oxygen tension. This irregularity may result in chronic anemia, serious infections, painful conditions, damage to organs and death.
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People who are heterozygous for sickle cell disease are generally healthy because?
Theyhave some normal hemoglobin in their red blood cells.
Dangers of alcohol use in sickle cell disease?
Alcohol dehydrates you. Dehydration is a precipitating factor of sickle cell crises.
What is the average size of sickle cell anemia?
This, my friend, is one of the great mysteries of the universe.
What kind of food we should eat as sickle cell people in the world?
you can eat what we eat. Theres no difference. People w/out sickle cell eat regular
things.so can people w/ sickle cell
Why is frequency of sickle cell allele so much lower in the US than in Africa?
People with sickle cell anemia are resistant to malaria, which increases their ability to survive and produce offspring. This is evolution in action. Since malaria is a bigger problem in Africa than in America, it is more prevalent in Africa. Many black people in America have inherited this gene from their ancestors
Explain how 2 parents neither of whom have sickle cell could have a child with sickle cell?
Both were carriers.
Is sickle cell anemia a single gene defect or multiple gene?
Sickle Cell Anaemia is a single gene defect (Hb gene).
What doctor treats Sickle Cell?
Sickle cell may be treated by either a family doctor or if a specialist is needed it would be a Hematologist.
hematologist only diagnose the condition from blood workups...
see an internal medicine specialist...they are the ones trained to treat and follow up the condition
It helps confirm the presence of sickle hemoglobin
What can society do for sickle cell disorder?
St. Judes is currently doing research to help the cure of the sickle disorder.
Why should couples that are ready to have a baby be tested for sickle cell trait?
Black couples should be tested, because about 1 in 12 black Americans carry sickle-cell trait. A person with sickle-cell trait has a 50/50 chance of passing it to their offspring.
If both parents have sickle-cell trait, then there's a 1 in 4 chance their child could wind up with full-blown sickle cell anemia, which is associated with a significantly reduced life expectancy (maybe 50 years vs. 70-ish for those without it).
The trait is also reasonably common among Hispanics, where about 1 in 100 are carriers.
Northern Europeans ... not so much. It turns out that sickle-cell trait is actually a good thing to have if you live where there's a lot of malaria; it makes you be less affected by the disease. Not a lot of malaria in northern Europe, so people whose ancestors are from there don't tend to carry the trait.
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What are facts about sickle cell anemia?
· Not like the normal red blood cells, which can live for 120 days, sickle-shaped cells live only 10 to 20 days
· About 1 out of every 500 African-American babies born in the United States has sickle cell anemia
· Sickle cell disease, red blood cells start out normal, but if they are stressed they become curved, hard, and sticky
Does tionne watkins daughter have sickle cell anemia?
no she is an carryier for it that means she carries the disease but its not like her moms
