Sickle Cell Anemia (SS) is a genetic blood disease. That means it is passed on through parents with sickle cell trait (SN) or sickle cell disease (SS)
SS+ SS = SS:
SS+ SN = SS or SN
SN+SN = SS SN SN NN
(NN) is normal
This is not how the genes are but to simplify I use S for sickle N for normal SN is the trait
Symptoms can be any thing it is a blood disease so it affect the blood anywhere in the body.
It could cause strokes, seizure, and or affect the lungs or heart those are worst cases.
With me it causes pain in my joints (usually my knees). The pain can be agony this is called a crises. Some people have crises all through there lives..., while others may have it a few times in there lives. Usually the first 5 years are the most serious.
It doesn't just affects black people.
There is no cure.
Doctors have tried bone marrow transplant and it worked ( the % is not good).
When doctors try it is a life or death situation in children only.
2007-12-19 14:31:57
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answered by mrsticks88 2
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Sickle cell anemia is from the Blacks basically, those of black blood and carried by the female. The round blood cell that carries the oxygen to the vital organs loose their ability when they turn to a sickle shape, hence the "sickle shapes" name. they also with plug up into various parts of the body and create pain.
There is both a cure and control for this now, see your doctor first.
2007-12-16 23:09:47
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answered by cowboydoc 7
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All yet b and c. A disease generic as Mediterranean anemia or thalassemia is present in Italy and Greece which isn't generic for mosquitoes, jungles and malaria, even though it incredibly is comparable to sickle cellular anemia. we actually do not understand what a vaccine would do, so announcing it incredibly is going to wipe out the disease is untimely. Sickle cellular anemia is a genetic subject, not a pandemic or micro organism. Gene scientific care would help afaik.
2016-10-11 11:13:10
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answered by Anonymous
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its a disease in which the red blood cells are the shape of a leaf instead of round. it effects African and Mediterranean peoples. it keeps your blood from flowing through your vessels.
why do people keep writing loose when they mean lose?
a criminal is loose. i hope the cops don't lose his tracks.
2007-12-16 23:10:58
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answered by Anonymous
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