The
Oxygen binding proteins have disorders sometimes and that causes
serious genetic diseases as sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell disease
is a serious genetic disorder that the body produces sickle-shaped
red blood cells. “Sickle-shaped” means that the red blood cells
are shaped as a crescent. Sickled cells are fragile and they can
rupture easily. Thus, it makes the lack of blood that is called as
“anemia”. To explain briefly, anemia is a condition in which your
blood has a lower than normal number of red blood cells. It can kill
the people because the capillaries become blocked by the sickle
shaped of the cells. Thus, the people who have the sickle cell anemia
can be killed by the blokage. This blokage can interfere the function
of organs.
Sickle
cell anemia is a genetic disorder and it can not be treated.
Generally, people die at their childhood because of sickle celled
anemia. In addition to these, sickle cell trait is not as anemia
because the people who have sickle cell trait do not have disease. It
occurs because of one allel. These kind of people have one normal
allel and other allel has the trait. This trait can be inherited from
father or mother.
With
the blood tests it can be determined that people have the disease or
do not have the disease. Generally, sickled cell anemia and sickle
cell trait can be seen in the Africa. It makes the people tired and
people have pain. It needs care for living with this trait. In
addition to this, it can be passed through the parents to the
children. Thus, making test before having the baby can eliminate the
risk of having the disease. Early diagnosing the diseases preferably
in the newnborn period. Blood transfusions help benefit sickle cell
disease patients with reducing pains and other complications. Thus,
red blood cells contain iron, and there is no way to get off it from
the body of patients who have blood transfusions can accumulate iron
in the body until it reaches toxic levels. It is important to remove
excess iron from the body, because it can damage the organs.
RESOURCES
- Nelson D. and Cox M., Principles of Biochemistry, 5th edition, Lehninger
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