Erlanger Dr. Jennifer Keates-Baleeiro discusses Sickle Cell disease and its treatment

Erlanger Dr. Jennifer Keates-Baleeiro discusses Sickle Cell disease and its treatment

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It is doctor jennifer keats barley arrow doctor barley arrow the morning.

Is it still proper to call it sickle cell anemia or is it jus sickle cell sickle-cell anemia is an appropriate choice and it is an inherited condition of re blood and it comes from genes from your parents and as a dip.

The anemia that requires occasional blood transfusions.

It is the property designation for that particular entity.

Wha exactly is the sickle cell trait will sickle cell trait is when you inherit only one gene parent that enables you to have cell if you will i'll just take a quick tour sure the rh slices if you will are sickle-cell and these nice big red blood cells that are normally shaped and ar actually went help you oxygenate the blood.

The sickle cells don't carry oxygen very well an that wife cooks with sickle-cell need and where both genes are inherited from both parents hav a problem with their blood.

In terms of oxygenation of the tissues.

Is this something that can be cured or simply manage so we do cures for sickle cell anemia.

It involves panera transplant and there's also the really exciting crisper gene technology and and there are current trials and through and doctor heather finkel and tri- star centennial with regards to chris bridging so we have some other options just decides ameritech i the crisper gene technology.

I'm not familiar with that whatsoever.

The lesson, so it is taking your own cells and actually having them transformed that they create what i actually happened at your body when you're inside so we offers produced feel hemoglobin and the crisper gene technology basically apps the fetal hemoglobin in your butt and transfer seen from somebody with cell anemia to somebody with help trait and then enables you to live a normal life.

I understand the tennessee and georgia.

Everyone is tested at birth for sickle cell.

Maybe if someone is not in a state that requires so testing who should be tested maybe as they get into late childhood or even adult so that at newborn screen is you mentioned and is available but we can also test anybody his of childbearing age as a somebody he's planning a pregnant can get sickle-cell team testing done.

Am an eye gentleman who actually are interested in their sickle cell trait status can get to done as well that can be done through your primary care practitioner or through an ob/gyn.

If your will and or you can exit get it done through hematology.

How prevalent is sickle-cell in our area.

One in 300 ad children are worn with with sickle-cell anemia.

Normally they have african- american to that not always true since very very blended population at this point to one in 300 and seem like several years ago, that number was higher and was predominant the confined to the african-america population were learning more and more about that and that's not always the case to and you can also have blends at hemoglobin and see disease and half have something else thalassemia and without going into too much detail those hemoglobin apathy can be figured out by doing what's a good thing to do if you find out that you or one of her children has sickle-cell exercise a good option and actually encourage exercise hydration at if you have a sickle-cell pain christ, and we encouraged and for some it to be used, and worse, that's not our first go to tylenol and motrin and and if needed kids come to us and they can risk eve intravenous fluids and iv pain medicine by for the most part 85 to 90 percent of all of our kids that and it's important that they go to school that they anticipate sports that they keep well hydrated and anything i contact us if there pain crisis is not nothing that they can manage at home.

I doctor barley arrow tell us how we can get in touch with you your website or email address.

Certainly, so i the website is too high.

Children's early and at.org and you can look us up under the sickle-cell website.

I'm also available at jennifer.keep that erlanger.org.

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Children's at erlanger.org phon number seven seven eight seven two eight nine and the doctor jennifer keats barley arrow.

It is been a pleasure having you here on, let's chat.

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