Sickle cell anemia
It is one of the most common types of hereditary hemolytic anemia, which affects the red blood cells and breaks down. It is the most common of blood fracture diseases in the world, especially in the Mediterranean countries, Africa, India and the East in particular. The disease has many names, Sickle cell disease and sickle cell disease.
It is called the sickle relative to the sickle, which is the tool that is used to harvest the plant and also called the monster, because the red blood cells take the shape of a curved like a crescent or sickle under the microscope.
Symptoms of sickle cell anemia:
The problem of this disease in the manufacture of bone marrow red blood cells, which function to transport both oxygen and food to all parts of the body abnormally, as a result of imbalance in the composition and in the amount of hemoglobin, these cells are formed in the form of a sickle and be breakable and Rapid decomposition after production and thus impede the passage of blood in the capillaries, when blocking the blood veins cause pain in all parts of the body, especially in bones, specifically the bones of the limbs and back. In addition, it may block the veins in the lungs or abdomen or even in the brain and thus cause serious complications other than severe pain suffered by the patient, in addition to both the psychological and social damage to the injured and the inability to collect and scientific excellence and knowledge because The patient continues to enter the hospital continuously and almost permanently, and this disease is a chronic and severe diseases, and causes the disease severe and severe, and when the patient suffers severe pain, the patient is forced to use drugs, drugs and powerful analgesics.
Of the complications of sickle cell anemia:
First : Dizziness and dizziness when doing
Second : Cheating when falling from a semi-high place
Third : Acute chest syndrome
Fourthly :Congestive heart
Fifth: Chronic renal insufficiency
Sixth: Hypertension pulmonary artery
Seventh: Composition of gallstones
Eighth: Inflammation and shortness of the spleen
Ninth: Weakness of immunity
Tenth: Damage with stiffness in the hip joint
eleventh : Brain clot
twelveth : Chronic ulcers
Thirteenth : Retinal nephropathy
fourteenth : the death