Sickle Cell

Harmattan season is here again with it's harsh and unpleasant weather and we warriors need to wise up on this harmattan's unpleasant weather. The cold is getting intense day by day,so we need to avoid the sickle cell crisis as much as possible. Warm clothings are what we need to stop the effect of the cold. Get your socks, sweaters, coats, scarves,caps and other warm clothing items,cover your self up with thick clothes when you wants to sleep also. Staying hydrated as much as possible is also very essential. The temperature is very high these days and the body tends to get dehydrated quickly,so lets please increase the quantity of water we have been taking. Those routine drugs are very important,let's make them available at our disposal always and I wish you guys a pain free day. Love you!

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When red blood cells becomes sickle,they are stiff, sticky and can get stuck in the blood vessels and thus prevents the easy flow of blood. This blockage stops the movement of oxygen-rich blood. This causes sharp, painful and excruciating pain in the area where the blockage occurs. I associate this pain with activities of mortal and pestle. If you are not a sickle cell patient and you wonder why sickle cell patient cry whenever they get this crisis, just put your hand inside a mortal and allow someone to hit it with pestle once. Imagine the kind of pain you feels and the painful signal it sends to your brain,that is exactly how sickle cell crisis feels. This pain sometime come anytime like just sudden and takes you unaware but most times this pain gets invitation from the sickle cell patient. Some of those invitations includes: Dehydration Infections Stress Cold weather Periods in females Swimming Rigorous physical activity and so on. Sickle cell pain occurs in some part o

Sickle cell is inherited when a child receives two sickle gene from both parents. Parents with sickle cell trait passes the sickle cell gene to the child and he ends up with sickle cell disease. The sickle cell hemoglobin comes in form of two letters,it might be S or C. When both parents have the trait, there is one in four chance (25%) that the child will have sickle cell and two in four chance (50%) the child will have sickle cell trait. There is also one in four chance (25%) that the child will have neither sickle cell nor the trait. In a situation where only one parent has the trait and the other does not,there is 0% probability that the child have sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell is an inherited form of anemia where red blood cells become abnormally long and pointed, similar to the shape of a banana. The red blood cells become rigid and sticky and are shaped like a farming tool called sickle or crescent moon. The irregularly shaped cells get stuck in small blood vessels, which can slow or block blood flow and oxygen to parts of the body. Sickle red cells die after 10 to 20 days instead of the usual 120 days. This non communicable disease requirestwo of the sickle hemoglobin must be inherited from ones parents in order to have the disease. A person who receives a gene for sickle cell disease from one parent and a normal gene from the other has a condition called sick cell trait and produces no symptoms or problem for most of the people. Some people with sickle cell disease leads their lives in a nearly normal way. Others are less fortunate and can suffer from a variety of complications. Over 150,000 babies are born each year with sickle cell