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By Julia Nguyen & Mijoi Powell

Sickle Cell Anemia. By Julia Nguyen & Mijoi Powell. What Is It?. Sickle Cell Anemia is……. A Genetic disease body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. Red blood cells shaped like crescent/sickle Don’t last as long as red blood cells (lead to anemia )

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By Julia Nguyen & Mijoi Powell

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  1. Sickle Cell Anemia By Julia Nguyen & Mijoi Powell

  2. What Is It? Sickle Cell Anemia is……. A Genetic disease body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. Red blood cells shaped like crescent/sickle Don’t last as long as red blood cells (lead to anemia ) Can get stuck in blood vessel blocking blood flow Causing pain and organ damage

  3. How do You Get It?? • born with two sickle genes (one from each parent). • only one sickle gene = trait is not expressed because it is recessive. • About 1 in every 12 African American have sickle cell trait(testing can show if trait is present) • Gene responsible for sickle cell anemia is Beta hemoglobin (HBB) / hemoglobin S

  4. Sickle Cell Anemia

  5. Common Symptoms • Fatigue, Fever, Paleness, Increased Heart Rate, Frequent urination, Excessive thirst, Poor Eye Sight, Skin ulcers, Yellowing of both eyes and skin, Delayed growth, Strokes, Breathlessness, Painful and prolonged erections • Pain • Abdominal • Bone

  6. How To Treat/Prevent Sickle Cell Anemia… • Taking supplements of Folic Acid • Antibiotics and Vaccines are given to prevent infection • Blood Transfusion • Bone Marrow or Stem Cell transplants • Oxygen loss

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  8. Works Cited • Pic 1 –http://www.humanillnesses.com/original/images/hdc_0001_0003_0_img0235.jpg • Pic2 - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/images/sickle_cell_01.jpg • Pic 3 - http://www.biologycorner.com/anatomy/blood/sickle_cell_anemia2.jpg • Pic 4 - http://www.empowher.com/files/ebsco/images/si55551319.jpg • Pic 5 - http://nursingcomments.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sickle-cell-anemia.jpg • “Sickle Cell Anemia.” www.nlm.nih.gov. Medicine Plus. Web. 14 April 2011. • Chial, H. (2008) “Rare genetic disorders: Learning about genetic disease through gene mapping, SNPs, and microarray data.” Nature Education 1(1). Web. 14 April 2011. • “What Is Sickle Cell Anemia?” www.nhlbi.nih.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Web. 14 Aprill 2011. • “What Is Sickle Cell Anemia?” www.nhlbi.nih.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Web. 14 Aprill 2011. • “Sickle cell anemia.” www.nlm.nih.gov. Medicine Plus. Web. 13 April 2011.

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