Sickle Cell Natural Healing
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Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disease that's caused by an abnormal hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying protein within the red blood cells). The abnormal hemoglobin causes the blood to take on a crescent or "sickled" shap. The sickled red blood cells are fragile and prone to rupture. Once the cells become sickled it's difficult for them to pass through the vessels and they become stuck, once this happens one can face chronic pain, organ or tissue damage, strokes, even death.
Sickle cell disease is one of the most common inherited blood disease in the world and it affects people from all over the world; people who comes from Africa, Panama, India, Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Mediterranean.
How Sickle Cell Disease is inherited:
Sickle cell disease is inherited from parents in much the same way as blood type and other physical traits. The types of hemoglobin genes a person makes in the red blood cells depends upon what hemoglobin genes the person inherits from his or her parents.
For examples:
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If one parent has Sickle Cell Anemia and the other is Normal, all of the children will have sickle cell trait.
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If one parent has Sickle Cell Anemia and the other has Sickle Cell Trait, there is a 50% chance (or 1 out of 2) of having a baby with either sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait with each pregnancy.
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When both parents have Sickle Cell Trait, they have a 25% chance (1 of 4) of having a baby with sickle cell disease with each pregnancy.
Sickle Cell Trait
About 1 out of every 12 African-Americans has sickle cell trait and about 1 out of every 100 Latinos has sickle cell trait. Sickle cell trait also affects many people whose ancestors came from Africa, Latin America, Asia, India, and the Mediterranean region. However, it is possible for a person of any race or nationality to have sickle cell trait. People with sickle cell trait have red blood cells that have normal hemoglobin A, and abnormal hemoglobin. The abnormal hemoglobin is called hemoglobin S. People with sickle cell trait have slightly more hemoglobin A than hemoglobin S. They have enough hemoglobin A to help their red blood cells carry oxygen to the body.
Normally people do not have health problems related to Sickle cell trait, but under certain stressful conditions, they may have some problems. Some of these conditions include the following:
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Dehydration – caused by lack of water in the body
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Low oxygen – caused by strenuous exercise
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High altitudes – causing a lack of oxygen
"Although some think people with the trait cannot have any sickle cell issues: This is not a true statement - I almost died after delivering my 3rd child. One week after I delivered my child, I had pain crisis in both arms and both legs, I was admitted to the hospital and the next day I had congested heart failure, fluid around the heart and lungs, lung infection, pnuemonia, high blood pressure, I was on oxygen and also received a blood transfusion"
How Sickle Cell Trait is inherited:
If one parent has sickle cell trait and the other parent has normal hemoglobin, there is a 50 percent (1 in 2) chance with each pregnancy of having a child who has sickle cell trait.
