EFFECTS-SICKLE+CELL+ANEMIA+BY+ROGER

The Effects of Sickle Cell Anemia Yu Sheng Wu

Sickle cell anemia is one of many diseases. However, they all have one thing in common-effects. However, in order to understand the effects, we need to understand how the disease works.

Sickle cells are sickle shaped blood cells, sounds cool right. No, sickle cells are actually life claimers, they are small devils in the form of the blood cell. Sickle cells can get easily clogged up inside the blood vessels. When it is clogged up, the cells and other blood cells will form a blood clot. Apart from that, when the blood vessel is blocked, there is a blood shortage in the direction the blood vessel is facing. This shortage in blood could cause immense pains.

Pain isn’t the only effect in sickle cell disease, for example, there is also anemia. The cause of anemia is simple, sickle cells die quickly, however, without the sickle cells carrying oxygen in the blood, the body runs out of oxygen, leading to shortness of breath, sometimes people can even faint from anemia.

Children that have sickle cell anemia are in bigger risk. Sickle cell anemia also affects human growth hormones, causing irregular growth patterns, sometime even disabling growth in the human body.

Due to the lack of oxygen in blood, the patient of sickle cell anemia can even suffer from permanent eye damage.

And if you think that these are all the symptoms, there are more. Let me list them out l Infections-The body’s twice as vunerable after it is diagnosed to sickle cell anemia because it destroys your immune system l Stroke: If the sickle cells block a vessel in the brain, stroke can occur l Acute chest syndrome-Chest pains and simple fevers can transform into Acute chest syndrome if you have sickle cell anemia

And sadly there is no cure

But there are alternatives, look at the treatment and choice page I made for more information

There is also a video from Yahoo Videos to help you understand how the effect of pain can matter in sickle cell anemia Best Regards Yu Sheng Wu (Roger) ||Home||Treatment||Effects||Prevention||Choice||MLA||Notes||Quiz||Cause|| media type="custom" key="3601918"
 * QUIZ QUESTION: True or false, sickle cell anemia can lead to the shortness of breath.**