SIckle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell disease or Sickle Cell Anemia is described as red blood cells that restrict blood flow to an organ. Sickles look like a stiff shape or like sea shells. These cells don’t last very long. They last between 10 to 20 days. The people who have this disease are usually born with the disease. The normal red blood cells are disc shaped and look like doughnuts without holes in the center. They move easily through your blood vessels. The sickle cells are sticky and get stuck in your blood vessels. The sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin. This disease can cause pain, organ damage and an early death. Some patients say that it feels like a baseball bat hitting you repeatedly. This disease occurs when you have less blood cells that the average human body. The symptoms of the disease are back pain, foot swelling, joint pain, hand swelling and breathlessness. If an infant gets the disease, it may have come from complications, Thalassemia and Isoveric academia. You can get infected by the disease by a mosquito. If the mosquito drank the blood from some one that has sickle cell and the same mosquito drank your blood, you can get the disease known as Malaria. Malaria infects the red blood cells. Malaria mostly occurs in the continent known as Africa. This disease is a horrible disease that mostly occurs in Africa. Most likely sickle cell disease affects the DNA so badly all kinds of horrible things can happen in the human body. For example, your skin can get horrible scars. When doctors have a slide of the DNA of a person that has sickle cell disease mostly white blood cells will occur than red blood cells. There are no known cure for this disease some people may get bone marrow transplants. The symptoms are different with each individual. Some people have long term pain or fatigue while other people have do have bad symptoms.Also sickle cell disease
occurs because of a chemical mutation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease.From:Kameron Daniel