Sickle Cell Anemia is a family of blood disorders arising from the abnormality of hemoglobin, in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein assumes a sickle-like shape from 5-6 months of age leading to variety of health problems like pain, hand and feet swelling, infections etc.

Proper Healthcare Professional Engagement is required in all the stages of the lifecycle of a sickle cell anemia patient. The above 10 indications serve as guidelines to know the symptoms and treat them accordingly. Knowing the sickle cell anemia traits, helps the healthcare professional to channelize the treatment according to the patient profile.

Overview:

Sickle Cell Anemia is one of the most serious and life-threatening disorders, which is a type of blood diseases and it may result in severe complications and even death of the individual. It's a rare kind of disease in which the normally round or disc-shaped red blood cells, deform their shape and become crescent or moon-shaped in structure. AS a result of deformity in change of red blood cells, multiple complications and severe symptoms occur including blockage in blood vessels, delaying of rupturing of useless and damaged RBCs in Spleen of a person, or it might also result in disrupted blood flow leading to insufficient provision of oxygen to all the organs of the body. The disease is usually caused because of compromised structure and functioning of Hemoglobin. In normal individuals who do not have Sickle Cell Anemia, their hemoglobin is known as Hemoglobin A, whereas in patients with Sickle Cell Disease, their Hemoglobin is denoted as S. Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia have also been diagnosed with a reduced shelf life of RBCs in their bodies. When a patient has been diagnosed with SCD, the life of RBCs reduces to only 10-20 days, whereas in normal conditions, RBCs complete their shelf life up to 120 days.