Columnist Mary Shaniqua offers suggestions and encouragement to parents whose child has just been diagnosed with sickle cell ...

Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye ...

This article explores why individuals with sickle cell are more prone to blood clots, what the signs and symptoms are ... blocks blood flow to the brain. Children and adults with SCD are at ...

A range of symptoms can affect people with sickle cell disease, especially from a young age. However, some children have few ...

It is inherited when a child receives two genes—one from each parent—that code for abnormal haemoglobin.” Apart from these sickle cells can lead ... Know the signs & how to self-check ...

Hydroxyurea remains effective long-term in reducing emergency department visits and hospital days for children living with sickle cell disease ... one – before severe symptoms typically emerge ...

Although symptoms of stroke in children are very similar ... and vomiting as possible warning signs. This can also happen with certain types of diseases like Sickle Cell disease or Moya Moya ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia ... transient ischemic attacks, 'soft neurological signs', seizures, headache, coma, visual loss, altered mental status, cognitive ...

When Dancan Ekaya was born, his parents, Rukia Achieng and Richard Simiyu noticed some worrying symptoms in their child. According to Dancan, his parents noticed that he was not only crying a lot ...

Sickle Cell Disease ... sickle-shaped red blood cells, which can block blood flow, cause chronic pain, and lead to a host of physical complications. While the physical symptoms are well known ...

This article explores why individuals with sickle cell are more prone to blood clots, what the signs and symptoms are, and how this risk ... It is when clot blocks blood flow to the brain. Children ...