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Sickle Cell Disease **Description: ** Sickle Cell is a disease that affects the red blood cells. It’s a mutation of chromosome 11. These hemoglobin molecules don’t develop properly causing the red blood cells to be rigid and be the shape of a sickle. This causes red blood cells to get caught in blood vessels causing pain and possible organ damage.

**Inheritance: ** This disease can only be inherited if both parents are carriers and pass down the mutant gene. You can be a carrier and not have any sickle cell or symptoms (you have one bad copy and one good). It’s an autosomal disease.

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**Symptoms: ** the symptoms of Sickle Cell are lack of oxygen in the liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, heart, and/or other organs. Loss of immune function of the spleen begins to die is another symptom. Also, lower red blood cell count, episodes of pain occurring, delayed growth, and strokes and other symptoms. Other common symptoms are jaundice (yellowish hue to the skin and eyes caused by liver damage). Your life span will also be reduced by 30 years if diagnosed with Sickle Cell.

**Diagnosis: ** Doctors diagnose Sickle Cell by screening the patient’s blood for Sickle Cell or by running other types of blood tests.

**Treatment: ** When a baby or young child is diagnosed with Sickle Cell, they take penicillin and folic acid daily to treat the disease. Other treatments for this disease are to get plenty of rest, avoid physical activity, drinking water frequently, getting blood transfusions and bone marrow tranplants.

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The S.C.A.N. (Sickle Cell Always Networking) is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Sickle Cell Support Group is located in Hackensack, New Jersey. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; line-height: 115%;">[]
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