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Sickle cell Disease  ** Explication **** :  ** Sickle cell disease is a disorder that many people have in this world. About 70,000 people in the USA have this disease and about 2 million are carriers. Sickle cell affects the black race the most then other races. This disease affects your hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the red blood cells that give them red color and serves to convey oxygen to the organs. The molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body is not normal with people with sickle cell disease. People with this disease have there red blood cells shaped in a sickle instead of a circle which normal people have. With this disorder, it is hard to function as normal people do.   This disease is inherited by your parents. This disease starts out when you are a child so you can not get this disease when you are an adult. It is found in the 11th chromosomes. If both parents are carriers, 1 out of 4 children will have this disease. Sickle cell disease is a recessive which means it comes from your parents. In order for a child to have sickle cell disease, it must be inherited from both parents or else, the child is just a carrier.  **Symptoms: **  The symptoms of this disease are horrifying. Some of the symptoms caused by sickle cell disease are dizziness, headache’s, coldness throughout the body mostly in hands and feet/ pale of the skin and eyes. Also, this disease daily affects your heart, lungs, abdomen, and joints.
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 **Daily Life: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> This disease cause’s sudden pain throughout the body is common. Also, pain in the joints and the bones are constantly hurting throughout the day which causes a lot of stress for people who have this disease.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Diagnosis: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This disease is diagnosed when you are a young boy. It can not start when your are a teenager or an adult. The symptoms start showing when you are young. The pain in the bones start out when you are young so it is hard growing up when you are young. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Treatment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sickle cell disease is not curable. The goal right now is to relive as much as pain as you can. To prevent causing pain throughout the body. They prevent disease/ infections caused by sickle cell disease, to prevent organs from going bad, storks, and more. People who have this disease need to be treated daily. Usually, daily pain are treated with medicine over the counter.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Research: **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Treatments researched on blood and marrow stem cells. They are researching about transplants on organs distorted by sickle cell disease. New therapy and medicine are being researched. These new researches hope to give better treatment for sickle cell disease. They also hope one day they will find a cure for sickle cell disease.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Additional Facts: **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sickle cell disease blood cell is shaped in a banana shape. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sickle cells patient have a higher vulnerability to infections. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sickle cell disease patient have narrowed or blocked vessels in the breain and cause damage in the brain cells.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">﻿ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Resources: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">   **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.njlji.nih.gov/health/dic/disease/sca.com] **  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">   **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">ghr.nlm.nih.com **  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">   <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

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