Sickle Cell Disease mythbuster
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a recessively inherited condition (one copy of the faulty gene must be inherited from both parents), which causes the red blood cells to become misshapen (“sickled”) leading to symptoms such as pain, fatigue and a high risk of infections
Click on the "Find out more here" button below to find out the answers to the following five myths (two are true and three are false). Did you get them right?
Myth 1: Sickle Cell only affects the black population.
Myth 2 : If I have the sickle cell trait, I can donate blood.
Myth 3: Patients with sickle cell disease over report their pain.
Myth 4: Sickle cell disease is contagious.
Myth 5: Patients with sickle cell live long and fruitful lives.