Sickle+Cell-+Anna

Is a disorder that affects the red blood cells, which use a protein, called hemoglobin to transport oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body? Red blood cells are flexible plus round so they travel easily threw the narrow blood vessels effects your breathing / causing pain and damage. **Inheritance ** It’s inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. The child will not inherit the disease unless both parents pass down a defective copy of the gene and one mutated copy are carriers. That’s clinically normal but, the parents can still pass the defective gene to their child.
 * Description **

**Punnett Square **

**Symptoms **You have trouble getting oxygen in your spleen, liver, kidneys, lungs, heart or other organs, causing a lot of damage. The cells that make up those organs begin to die.

**Diagnose ** Doctors do a screen on the newborns for the sickle cell disease with a blood test. Sometimes they do a test called hemoglobin electrophoresis. **Treatment ** You must take a daily dose of penicillin to prevent potentially deadly infections. Also take folic acid which helps build new blood cells. **Intresting Facts ** -Unlike normal red blood cells which can live for 120 days, sickle shaped cells live for on;y 10 to 20 days. -In the USA the disease most commonly affects African Americans. **Support Groups ** Sickle Cell Foundation Group Inc. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal;">-You can get a lot of help. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pictures ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿ ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Resources ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal;">http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/diorders/whataregd