What You Need to Know About Sickle Cell Disease By Vien007 On Health Tips

What You Need to Know About Sickle Cell Disease

The 2015 World Sickle Cell DAY is 19^th June and The theme of this year’s celebration is “Control of Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria at Primary Care Level’ with sub theme “Collaboration for the Control of Sickle Cell Disease in West Africa”. 

1.Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder that causes the red blood cells to be abnormally shaped and get stuck inside the blood vessels, making it hard to deliver oxygen throughout the body. This causes intense pain and can lead to infection and severe complications like organ damage and stroke. Today on City Health tips with me Vien Here is one things leading physicians in the field say you should know about the disease.

2. People are born with sickle cell disease; it does not develop in adulthood, and it is not contagious. Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder that is passed down from parent to child. To have the disease, both sets of parents must carry what is known as the sickle cell trait. If both parents have this trait, there is a 25 percent chance that their child will have sickle cell disease.
There are still many things you need to know about Sickle Cell.

Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins of the singing group TLC has Sickle Cell and is spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. (Marguerite Wright - file photos)

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