Sickle-cell anemia

Red blood cells of patients with this disease have an exception with the name s of heme heme, so will be distorted. If your child received an abnormal gene from both parents the genetic, then he is sickle-cell anemia occurs. But if a child from the genetic parents party to only one abnormal gene, he will have sickle-cell anemia trait, although the symptom does not occur, but Kevin Keegan genetic anomalies to the next generation.
　
Symptoms of this disease include: depression and shortness of breath, jaundice symptoms occur, bones and chest or abdomen having severe pain, this is due to stenosis of vascular occlusion. Dehydration, colds or foregoing symptoms of serious infections more likely.
　
It easier for children with sickle-cell anemia with Pneumococcus pneumonia. Sometimes kidney and spleen occurs or a shortage of blood supply to the brain, causing damage to these organs.
　
If the child has any of the above symptoms, you should take the child to the hospital, blood tests to confirm the diagnosis (many of the children are blood tests that detect when they are born). Treatments include allowed folic acid supplementation to reduce the severity of anaemia, taking penicillin to prevent infection, vaccination to prevent pneumonia, and if necessary, can also take analgesics. In order to prevent the pain attacks, you should ensure that your children drink plenty of water and avoid child ten chill.
　
If the child has pain attack, and with the following symptoms such as fever, sudden colour to white, repeated vomiting or severe diarrhea, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, unusual lethargy or depression, you should immediately bring the child to hospital.
　
Belonging to this high risk group of people had better accept blood test, to find out whether they have abnormal genes. If the fetus has sickle-cell anemia, termination of pregnancy should be considered.
　
Under the good medical care, most children with sickle cell anemia can be grown up. If a child\'s condition is very serious, and can also find suitable bone marrow donors, you can consider implementing a bone marrow transplant. Once a successful bone marrow transplantation, the disease can be fully recovered.