2006-11-18 06:15:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Sickle Cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cells disorders normal red blood cells are round like dough nuts, and they move through small blood tubes in the body to deliver oxygen.
Sickle red blood cells become hard, Sticky and shaped like sickles to cut wheat. When these hard and pointed red cells go through the small blood tube, they clog the flow and break apart this can cause pain, damage and a low blood count or anemia.
2006-11-18 07:05:58 · answer #1 · answered by AshleyS. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder which causes red blood cells to be malformed. People with sickle cell disease can have painful sickle cell crises, and a number of other health problems as a result.
Read all about it here:
http://www.sicklecelldisease.org/about_scd/index.phtml
2006-11-18 06:19:12 · answer #2 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A variant of hemoglobin can aggregate and cause red blood cells to sickle -- form a crescent shape like a sickle.
2006-11-18 06:21:27 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sickle cell anemia is a red blood cell that is shape like a moon. Deformed basiclly. Regular cells are round in shape.
2006-11-18 06:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by roxylee11782 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a blood cell disease. mostly african americans get it. but it is where your blood cells are oval-shaped(aka sickle-shaped) instead of circle-shaped. so...it causes blockage.
2006-11-18 06:17:20 · answer #5 · answered by Krissi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genetic disease of blacks due to an abnormal S hemoglobin. Ss is a carrier SS is the disease.
2006-11-18 09:38:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋