Articles of category "Sickle Cell Anemia (kids and teens)"

Sickle cell diseases is a blood disorder that affects a person's red blood cells. Individuals with sickle cell disease possess red blood cells that contain mostly hemoglobin S type, an abnormal hemoglobin type. Frequently these red blood cells turn into a crescent shaped form (sickle shaped form) and have difficulty passing through small blood vessels normally. When sickle-shaped (crescent shaped) block an individual's small blood vessels, less blood is able to reach that part of the body.

Medical advances will not doubt help present-day children and teens with sickle cell anemia to have a greater chance for enjoyment of an adult life. Such children will then become adults with a chronic medical condition. The writer of the following article wants to emphasize the degree to which life with any chronic condition can affect multiple body organs.