Sickle Cell Anaemia: The First Year Of Life With A Sickle Cell Anaemia

If a child is with sickle cell anaemia in the first year of life in a few months will not show sign due to fetal haemoglobin presence in the blood (HbF).

When new born babies were born with sickle cell anaemia, the deficiency will not show any problem because their bloods contain highly fetal haemoglobin (HbF), it is the normal haemoglobin in the unborn child fetus which stops production at birth and the variant haemoglobin (HbA) such as HBS or HbC depend on the genes inherited will start production and the amount of HbF, in the blood gradually decline when the baby reaches 6 months of life, small amount of HbF will only left in circulation.

As a result of this, the protection gives against the symptoms and signs of the sickle cell anaemia will now appear.

About one sixth of the children affected after 3 months of birth had shown signs like jaundice, fewer or pallor.

The hand foot syndrome, typical signs and infections will display after 6 months of delivery to some children.

One can avoid this through the following options:

• Genotype test before marriage : if you want to marry a lady and you can not bear the consequence, its better to go for  screening before any conjugal engagement;

• Prenatal Diagnosis : if you agreed to marry without testing genotype, apply prenatal diagnosis between 8 - 10 weeks of pregnancy. It helps to discover pregnancies with such disorder and adverse to abort them;

• New born screening : take the baby to laboratories to confirm the diagnosis.

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