Sickle Cell Disease By Ze Zhou Li
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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What is Sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell disease is a genetic disease. It will causes people to produce abnormal red blood cells that have different shape compared with normal red blood cells. Sickle cells have less flexibility and carries less oxygen.
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SICKLE CELLS HAVE A DIFFERENT SHAPE THAN NORMAL RED BLOOD CELLS
How to get sickle disease?
Since it is a genetic disease, people are born with it. This disease is a recessive trait disease. The offspring will suffer this disease if both of their parents are either a carrier of the disease having heterozygous alleles, or who suffers this disease originally having homozygous recessive alleles.
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SICKLE DISEASE IS A RECESSIVE INHERITANCE DISEASE
What are the symptoms?
People who suffers from sickle disease would feel pain due to having abnormal shape of red blood cells(hemoglobin). Sickle cell disease causes organ damages and blood clogged in blood vessels because sickle cells have less flexibility and carries less oxygen than normal cells.
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BLOOD CLOGGED CAUSED BY SICKLE CELLS
Any treatments?
Unfortunately, there is no method to achieve total recovery for sickle cell disease using modern technology. Genetic disease are hard to cure because they exist in genetic level.
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WE CAN DETECT IF UNBORN INFANT HAVE GENETIC DISEASE OR NOT
How do we treat it then?
Although there is not yet a total recovery plan, there are medicines that could reduce the pain caused by sickle cell disease and also to give more protection to internal organs. Also, ultrasound imaging can be used to detect if unborn infants suffer from sickle cell disease or not.
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