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Sickle Cell

**Description: ** Sickle cell causes red blood cells to become abnormally shaped. This abnormality can cause serious infections, chronic anemia, and damage to body organs. Each person can have different problems with the disorder. Some children can remain relatively healthy, some need lots of hospitalization.

**Inheritance: ** It is passed down from parents. Either both the parents have it, one has it and one is a carrier, or they are both carriers.

**Symptoms: ** · Inflammation in the lungs · Painful swelling of feet and hands · Bone pain · Lack of breath · Fever · Rapid heart rate · Paleness · Jaundice

**Daily Life: ** Depending on the symptom, daily life can differ can differ. Assuming one has all of them; the individual would be very tired with every movement. He or she would not be able to be left unattended, and may need pain relievers.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Diagnosis: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The United States mandate that a blood test it provided for all new born children to test for Sickle Hemoglobin. This blood test shows if the child has this, or any other disorder concerning blood. If there are signs of Sickle Hemoglobin, the test is retaken to confirm the previous results. If there are signs the baby has Sickle Cell again, the baby is diagnosed with the disorder, and the baby’s primary care doctor is notified so he can provide treatment that will act accordingly to the disorder.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Treatment: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Pain and the actual problem itself are treated separately. Pain, is treated with a variety of non-narcotic drugs. The disorder is treated with supplements of folic acid. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Others are: · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Magnesium Therapy: This uses magnesium to hydrate sickle blood cells and decrease sickling and other clinical problems. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Hydroxyurea Therapy · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Oral Iron Chlelator: Children with sickle cell that need red blood cell transfusions get massive build ups of iron that gradually leads to a stroke. The Oral Iron chlelator removes that iron, but can be toxic to the bodies major organs. People taking this treatment require frequent hospitalization and medical supplements to stay moderately healthy.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Research: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The top ten most funded medical research centers in the world include research about heart disease, lung cancer, and other problems such as Sickle Cell. The Division of Hematology is currently researching “silent strokes” where victims, as stated, have unnoticeable strokes which can lead to serious problems. They believe the best possible method, as of now, is advanced imaging machinery.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Additional Facts: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In the early days of Sickle cell people might die between twenty and thirty. With the science of today, people with sickle cell can live to fifty and beyond.

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