Sickle cell anemia.

Sickle cell anemia. Abstract Sickle cell anemia is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. Normal red blood cells are round like doughnuts, and they move through small tubes in the body to deliver oxygen. Sickle red blood cells become hard, sticky and shaped like sickles used to cut wheat. When these hard and pointed red cells go through the small blood tube, they clog the flow and break apart. This can cause pain, damage, or low blood count, or anemia.DiscussionThe red cell sickle is made from a substance in the red cell called hemoglobin that carries oxygen into the cell. One little change in this substance causes the hemoglobin to form long rods in the red cell when it gives away oxygen. These ridged rods change the red cell into a sickle shape. You can only get sickle cell anemia from inheriting it from both parents who are carries of the disease.English: Description Malaria versus sickle-cell tr...Sickled red blood cells are destroyed faster by the boy than are normal red blood cells. When l arge numbers of red blood cells are rapidly destroyed by the body, a condition called hemolytic anemia results.Sickle cell anemia is not contagious and can not be transmitted by germs. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder from parent to child. In order to obtain sickle cell, a child must be born with two defective hemoglobin S genes. A child born with sickle cell trait has inherited one defective gene from one parent, and a normal gene from the other. People who have the sickle cell gene are called carriers. Sickle cell anemia develops in an average of one out of four children parented by two carriers. When one person has the sickle cell trait but the other has normal hemoglobin,