Sickle Cell Anemia

Sickle Cell Anemia i.

Can You Live A Long Life With Sickle Cell Anemia?
Know the “Do’s & Don’ts”.

Brianna White
Biology 2010
Professor Burton
April 15, 2009

Sickle Cell Anemia ii.
Abstract
Sickle Cell Anemia is a life-long inherited disease in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells. People who have are born with it, but by knowing what it is, how you got it, symptoms, and how to cope with it, you could possibly live a long, healthy life with no complications. This paper shows all that above and some more. It tells all about sickle cell and what some researchers have found that could possibly cure it one day. But for right now there is only one medicine that can actually help people live normal lives with sickle- cell anemia.

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Can You Live A Long Life With Sickle Cell Anemia?
Know the “Do’s & Don’ts”.
Sickle Cell Anemia is an inherited, lifelong disease, in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells. People who have sickle cell anemia are born with it. They inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. With that being said, now days you to watch who you marry or who you have a child with because your child could possibly end up with a life- long disease, Sickle Cell Anemia.
Sickle (2009) Cell Anemia affects millions of people worldwide. In the United States, the disease affects about 70,000 people, mainly African Americans. When hearing about the sickle cell disease some think, “Well why is it called that anyway.” Sickle- shaped means that the blood cells are shaped like a “c”. Normal red blood cells are disc shaped and look like doughnuts without holes in the center which means, they move easily through your blood vessels. Red blood cells contain abnormal hemoglobin that causes the cells to have a sickle shape. Sickle-shaped cells don’t move easily
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through your blood vessels. They are stiff and sticky and tend to form clumps and get stuck in the...