who gets sickle cell anemia?
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Sickle cell disease is a general term for a group of genetic disorders caused by sickle hemoglobin (Hgb S). In many forms of the disease, the red blood cells change shape upon deoxygenation because of polymerization of the abnormal sickle hemoglobin
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oh definitely. People with sickle cell traits are just as good as people with AA if not better.The trait was acquired to better protect from malaria................. Besides people with sickle cell do get fat. I know a lot of people with the traits who are fat.
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Absolutely and very distinct groups as well.  Firstly, only females are carriers of the disease and only males can get the disease.  There are no females who actually have the disease itself.  None that are known to me at least.\n\nWhat this means is if your mother is a carrier of the abnormal gene which produces hemophilia, and you are her son, you will have the disease itself.  I say you will have it because the chances of her passing it onto you are so great that it is almost 100%.\n\nThe only other distinctive trait is that hemophilia is most common among Caucasian males, specifically white males as opposed to black males - no matter what their origin - African-American, Jamaican, etc.\n\nThe best example of what can happen and did happen just over twenty years ago in the United States:  A husband and wife had three sons and the mother was the carrier of the hemophilia gene.  All three sons were born with hemophilia.  This was when the medical community knew very little about the early stages of what we now know to be HIV, AIDS, etc.  All three sons had to have regular blood transfusions due to their hemophilia and unfortunately, all three received tainted blood over the course of several years.\n\nThe eldest son was the first in the family to die of AIDS, followed by the other two.  This was a big news story back then - you may wish to check the net for info on it - the eldest son was one of the main recipients of the first charities started for AIDS patients (by Elton John in particular) and his name was Ryan White.  This is no secret so I am not divulging information that is not already known by the medical community as well as other international sources.\n\nSo, you can see that in a way, parents who already know that the female partner is a carrier of the gene may be putting any children they have at risk by choosing to have children.  Sons will likely be born with the disease and daughters will likely be born as carriers of the disease.\n\nIt seems like a vicious circle but with education and careful consideration, a hemophiliac should be able to live a relatively normal life especially now that blood screening is done at least in most parts of the world.\n\nHowever, in some countries, the screening may not be as vigilant as in North America, so hemophiliacs in some parts of the world may still be at risk of getting HIV, AIDS and other disorders each time they receive a transfusion.\n\nThe reason why hemophiliacs need transfusions is that the disease causes them to bruise very easily and also bleed profusely if cut or scraped.  This occurs most often when the male is a younger person so this is a critical time in their lives.\n  \nSo far, hemophilia is not preventable or curable so once again, education and research are the key and perhaps some day, there may be a cure. \n\nI hope I have helped answer your question and provide some information as well.
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Well, Every single cell in the body needs oxygen. If hemoglobin is malformed because of a mutation, there will be no cells in the body that can function properly due to the lack of adequate amounts of oxygen being transported to the cells. Since all body systems rely on the cell for functionality, no body system will go unaffected.
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It depends upon what type of blood YOU have, and the Rh factors (+ or -) or you and yoru parents.\n\nBesides, there are very few places that gurantee that you will get the blood someone donates for you, if any.  If you donate your own, maybe.  But you don't know what type of diseases your parents or friends might have, so they will not gurantee that you'll get their blood.  Takes awhile to process it, anyway.
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Sickle-cell anemia is encountered almost exclusively in people of African descent, although there are always exceptions.  The reason sickle-cell anemia is so common (compared to other genetic disorders) in certain populations is that carriers of the gene (i.e. people who have only one copy of it) have slightly oddly shaped red blood cells, which don't cause any problems for them but aren't so great for the parasite that causes malaria.  Since carriers are resistant to malaria, the gene that causes sickle-cell is extremely common only within populations from regions where malaria is endemic.  Since malaria is quite prevalent in many regions of Africa, sickle-cell is also prevalent in people whose ancestry traces back to those regions.  Sickle-cell can pop up anywhere, in any population through random mutation (if I remember correctly, it's a single nucleotide mutation), but without malaria to give heterozygous individuals (i.e. carriers) an advantage, it does not become nearly as common as it did in African populations.
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Anemia is usually just a lack of iron in the blood and to cure it all she has to do is eat more iron like from leafy green veggies, red meats, and eggs.
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"There is no cure for the disease, but advancements in treatment have improved median survival to 42 years for men and 48 years for women."\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/sickle-cell-anaemia\n\nIt is an inherited disease and symptoms may appear in infancy.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_anemia\n\nhttp://www.umm.edu/blood/sickle.htm
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If your anemic it means you don't have enough red blood cells. Anemia can be common, especially for women that are menstrating once a month, or serious. I was anemic when I was a kid, but I out gew it with proper nutrition and vitamins.\n\nYou need to eat foods rich in iron or take an iron supplement. Maybe your doctor gave you a prescription. \n\nHere are some other resources for you.\n\nhttp://www.kidshealth.org/parent/medical/heart/anemia.
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It's an inherited disease. Both parents give their child the sickle cell allele.\nSickle cell anemia is caused by an abnormal type of hemoglobin called hemoglobin S. Hemoglobin is a protein inside red blood cells that carries oxygen. Hemoglobin S, however, reduces the amount of oxygen inside the cells, distoring their shape. The fragile, sickle-shaped cells deliver less oxygen to the body's tissues, and can break into pieces that disrupt blood flow.
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What causes sickle cell disease? \n\nSickle cell disease, a group of blood disorders, is inherited, passed from parent to child. Children with sickle cell disease have two defective genes, one from each parent. \n\nA child born with sickle cell trait inherited one defective gene from one parent, and a normal gene from the other parent. These children don't have sickle cell disease but are carriers of the defective gene and may pass it on to their children.\n\nHow is it treated? \n\nThe best possible treatment for a person with sickle cell disease is a partnership between the affected family and a team of health professionals. Successful treatment requires: \n\nEarly diagnosis using infant screening (shortly after birth). \nPreventive antibiotic treatment and immunizations starting at 3 to 4 months of age. \nAn aggressive pain treatment plan. \nConsultation with doctors skilled in the care of patients with sickle cell disease. In severe cases, doctors may recommend regular blood transfusions, drug treatment with hydroxyurea, or (rarely) bone marrow transplant.
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I give blood all the time but I never have gotten paid for it. It isn't unheard of thugh. Otherwise, I've always had a good experience with it. You could pass out and depending on the person doing it you could get bruising around the area and there are always very small risks of infections. It's bad if you're anemic but they test for that before hand. If you d, be sure to eat first fruits/grains and sweets are good and they usually provide cookies. Also drink a lot of water or juice. The only things that have ever happened to me was being really tired for like an hour afterwards.
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http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/iron_transport.html\n\nLooks like transferrin is necessary to reutilize iron released from dead RBC.  It's been a year or so since BASIC A&P for me, and it is not my field.  This link would be a good start.
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there are many mutations that happened to be beneficial to humans. for example, sickle cell anemia mutations created a positive effect in africa where malaria was prevalent
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anemia : lack of rbcs. resp system will not work to fill potential. red blood cells deliver o2 to the bodys organs and take away waste products co2. hypoxia can occur low o2. hypercapnia high co2.
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A red blood cell. Haemoglobin is the red part of the blood within the cell
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Sickle cell anemia is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.  This means that in order for a child to have sickle cell in its full blown form, (s)he must inherit the trait from BOTH parents. If two carriers of the trait marry, these are the odds:\n\nBoth parents are Ss, so Ss crossed with Ss yields a 50% chance that a child will be a carrier (have sickle cell trait), a 25% chance that a child will be normal (not have any sickle cell at all in their genes), and a 25% chance that a child will have sickle cell disease. \n\nIf a person with sickle cell marries a normal person, then all of their children will be carriers (have the trait).\n\nIf a person who is a carrier marries a normal person, then 50% of the children will have the trait and 50% will be normal.\n\nIf a person who is a carrier marries a person with sickle cell,  50% of the children will be carriers, and 50% will have the disease.\n\nIn the unlikely case that two people with sickle cell disease marry, then ALL of their children will have the disease.\n\n\nNote that these numbers apply to EACH pregnancy: no matter what the outcome of each child, the chances are still the same for any siblings. So the only way a child can inherit the actual sickle cell disease is if the trait is carried by both parents or at least one of them actually has the disease.