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1
Early and regular prenatal care is important if you are pregnant and
have
sickle
cell disease.
2
How sickle cell disease affects pregnancy depends on whether you
have
sickle
cell disease or sickle cell trait.
3
You can live perfectly well without a spleen, and people who survive car crashes or
have
sickle
-
cell
anemia frequently do.
4
There is the same 25% chance that the child will not
have
sickle
cell disease or sickle cell trait.
5
Thankfully, he agreed to participate in my "study" - and thankfully for him, he did not
have
sickle
cell.
6
If both parents
have
sickle
cell trait, there is a 50% chance that the child also will
have
sickle
cell trait.
7
There is a 25% that your child will
have
sickle
cell disease if both you and your partner have the trait.
8
It is estimated that approximately 100,000 Americans have the disease, and more than 1,000,000 worldwide
have
sickle
cell trait.
9
People with only one copy of the defective gene are said to
have
sickle
cell trait, and most have no symptoms of sickle cell disease.
10
But it only makes economic sense for most centers to test blood for people who frequently get transfusions, like those who
have
sickle
cell anemia.
11
Her son
had
sickle
cell anemia and had become extremely weak.
12
It was as startling as it was ordinary: The little girl
had
sickle
cell anaemia.
13
Others
had
sickles
,
scythe-blades, flails, half-pikes, or hammers, while the remainder carried long knives and oaken clubs.
14
A well-known example in humans is the genetic defence against malaria, which
has
sickle
-
cell
anaemia as an associated effect.
15
If both parents
have
Sickle
cell trait, there is a 25% chance that the child will have SCD.
16
So, before you get pregnant its so important to know if your partner
has
sickle
cell disease Or sickle cell trait.
have
sickle
have