Sickle-Cell Disease

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Sickle cell anemia is a genetic problem so you are born with it. Initially babies make a different kind of hemoglobin (fetal hemoglobin) and so do not have problems right away. Usually by 6-12 month s of age they are making the sickle hemoglobin and can start to have problems.

This depends upon the percentage of Hgb S after tests have been administered. The testing needed is: Hemoglobin Electrophoresis. I would highly recommend that you go to your primary care manager (doctor) to get this test administered before showing up to basic. It has been proven that after testing so many applicants mistakes are made resulting in a discharge. Take the necessary precautions and get this testing done before to show that your percentages aren't going to change.

Navy regulation is 45% and below. If its anywhere above 45%, you will have to request a waiver to stay. Strenuous exercising can cause a decrease in abnormal hemoglobin resulting in black outs and strokes.

Sickle cell anemia is a disease passed down through families in which red blood cells form an abnormal crescent shape. It is also called sickle cell anemia.

Patients with sickle cell disease need continuous treatment, even when they are not having a painful crisis. Supplementation with folic acid , an essential element in producing red blood cells, is required because of the rapid red blood cell turnover.

Pernicious Anemia has a lot to do with the red blood cells. You could do a search on the condition to see if this is what you're looking for.

million people have sickle cell world wide i think

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The most common cause of anemia is blood loss.

Here is a website that I found that has the geographical distribution shown on a map:

http://www.who.int/genomics/public/Maphaemoglobin.pdf

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Sickle-cell anemia is caused by a defective gene that produces an abnormal form of hemoglobin which is called hemoglobin S. And this gene is particularly common in Western Africa and people of Western African Ancestry. An estimated 8 to 12 percent of all African Americans carry the sickle-cell gene.

Sickle cell anemia is a inherited blood disorder. This means everyone who has sickle cell has inherited it from their parents. With this in mind it means there was a key ancestor in Africa or the Mediterranean who had the first sickle cell anemia and passed it on to their descendants.

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No it doesn't help you it affects you in every way... If you go out side you have to pile up with clothes even if its hot because if you get sick or get a minor cut you can get seriously ill.

Recessive traits like sickle cell disease can be relatively common in certain populations due to a phenomenon known as heterozygote advantage. Individuals with one copy of the sickle cell allele (heterozygotes) have some protection against malaria, which enhances their survival and reproductive success in malaria-endemic regions. This advantage allows the recessive allele to persist in the gene pool, even though individuals with two copies of the allele (homozygotes) may experience severe health issues. Therefore, the prevalence of such traits can be linked to environmental factors and selective pressures.

Technically anyone could get Sickle Cell. If one of your parents had a sickle cell anemia trait they could have passed it down to their child. If both of them had it then they definitly passed it down to their child. If a person is trying to find out if they have Sickle Cell Anemia then they should see someone who can conduct a pedigree. Or a gene tracer. This was taught to me in Science class a couple years ago so the information could not be completely accurate.

Approximately 11% of individuals with sickle cell disease will have a recognizable stroke by the age of 20

The disease is recessive, requiring both parents to carry the allele for the disease to be found in the offspring.

If one parent has it, the offspring can also be a carrier, but it will be recessive, and the offspring will have normal RBC (red blood cells)

Sickle cell is not a germ, it's a disease! The spreading of this disease occurs when two people carry the trait of sickle cell in their genetic makeup and they have children. The odds of any child born to parents who carry the trait are different each time. 50% can be born with just trait, 1 out of 4 will be born with Sickle Cell Anemia and 1 out of 4 will be born without anything.

Then there are varied levels of Sickle Cell, there's Anemia (SS), Disease (SC).

it is heredity

Sickle-cell anemia affects black people more than other groups. There is some indication that sickle-cell gives a survival benefit for some tropical diseases, such as the Malaria parasite.

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