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Blood Disorders By Marion Jones HCA/240 Chythia Knittle 03/12/12 There are all sort of different blood disorders

that people may experience in their live time . Some Blood Disorders are hereditary and some are caused by other problems. Your plasma is a essential ingredient of human survival ( Franklin Institute 1998-2012) Plasma is the liquid component of blood and cosit of half o your bogy volume it is made of 90% water and 10% of the body's protein, minerals, and waste products (Wise Greek 2012) Your platelets are colorless blood cells that ply a role in blood clotting ( The Mayo Clinic 2012) Without platelets when get cut you would bleed to death without plates you would bleed to death because your blood will not clot. Without red blood cells our bodies would not survive because red blood cells is the most important to your blood " a single drop of blood contain millions of red blood cells which are constantly traveling through delivering oxygen and removing waste ( the Franklin Institute 2012) Iron deficiency anemia, sickle cells, and Trombocytopenia. Iron deficiency anemia is the most common form of anemia. " In the United States 7% of toddlers ages 1 to 2 years do and 9 to16% of menstruating women re iron deficiency ( HealthFinder.gov 2012) Some cause of iron deficiency are low-ron diet, not enough iron absorbed in your body, or other causes such as bleeding in your digestive tract. You need iron for your hemoglobin because hemoglobin is what gives oxygen to your body. Systems of iron deficiency are severe fatigue, weakness, pale skin, dizzness and headaches. Children that have this form of this anemia are low in weight and height and can cause learning problems for some children . If you think that you have you this form of blood disorder you should see you doctor so they can do blood test to test your blood blood. Some form of iron deficiency can be fixed by foods rich in iron such as meat, eggs, fruits and green leafy vegetables they are all great source of iron, " Sickle Cell Anemia Is a disorder of the blood caused by inherited hemoglobin"(Medicine.net 2012) according to the article ( Medcine.net 2012) This disease affects most African American people When some has the sickle cell trait does mean that they have the sickle cell disease If you have the trait and you have unprotected sex with a person that has the traits it is a 50% chance that you children will have this disease. Symptoms of sickle cell are abnormally shape, sickled blood cells

blocking the flow of i blood that circulates through the tissues of your body ( medicine.net 2012). Fatigue, pain crises, bacterial infections and bone infarcts are all features that happens when you have sickle cell. Sickle cell and sickle sell traits can not be prevented because it is a disease that is inheridty. There are medicines that can be given to control the certain problems occur. t" (Mayo Clinic 2010) A disorder from trombocytopenia is leukemia. This disorder is usually mild and has little to none symptoms. Some of these sys-toms include blood in your urine or stool, heavy menstrual flow, and a lot of bleeding due to cuts or surgery. Some form of trombocytpenia doesn't need treatment it sometime fixes itself. If you have severe cases of this disorder you may need to have a blood transfusion or take antibodies that attack plates known as cotrcosteroids. There are a lot blood disorder that affect your body some that can can just occur because of other health problem and some that ca not be help or prevented because they might pass down from your genes . If you any symptom that are mention above you should see your doctor so that he or-she can reform the test so that you can be helped before the problem get to serious. References: Sickle Cell Anemia (Sickle Cell Disease) Causes, Diagnosis ... www.medicinenet.com www.medicinenet.com/sickle_cell/article.htm Blood: Plasma - The Human Heart: An Online Exploration from The ... www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/plasma.html CDC - Sickle Cell Disease, Trait - NCB www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/trait Thrombocytopenia (low platelet count) - MayoClinic.com www.mayoclinic.com www.mayoclinic.com/health/thrombocytopenia/DS00691 healthfinder.gov - Your Source for Reliable Health Information healthfinder.gov healthfinder.gov/

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