Infants & Children
Being diagnosed with SCA 8months, baby John started showing signs with Jaundice.
General symptoms in infants does not start until late in the baby's first year of life.
- Fever
- Swelling of hands and feet
- Pain in chest, abdomen, limbs, and joints
- Nosebleeds
- Frequent upper respiratory infections
- Spleen
- Fatigue
- Irritability
- Jaundice ( yellowish discoloration of skin of skin and eyes)
Adulthood or Adolescence
Rosa has lived 65years with SCD, until the final stages of the disease Crises.
Symptoms that are generally in Adulthood or Adolescence are symptoms from your childhood that continue but becomes more painful and severe.
- Delayed puberty (in young teenagers)
- Severe joint pain
- Progressive anemia
- Leg sores
- Gum disease
- Vision problems
- Arm sores
- Back pains
- Headaches
- Dizziness
- Blood Clots
- Coldness in hands and feet
Sickle Cell Crises
Sickle cell crises are episodes of pain that happens within varies of frequency and severity in different patients, usually followed by periods of remission. Severe sickle cell pain has been equivalent to the pain in cancer. These pains mostly occur in the lower back, leg, abdomen, and chest. Returning episodes always recur in the same area as before. The risk of sickle cell crises increases by any activity that happens to boosts the body’s requirement for oxygen. Such as illness, physical stress, or being at high altitudes etc. For instance, acute chest syndrome is a severe complication, that happen in the lung the become life threatening or maybe even the death, stroke, and heart attacks as well, if not treatment for immediately.