Rachel Fry - P2- Explain the potential effects of five different life factors on the development of an individual. Life Factors There are five life factors that can effect a person’s growth and development, these are; • Genetic • Biological • Environmental • Socioeconomic • Lifestyle Genetic Factors Determinism/Choice and Interaction Determinism is the belief that your future is fixed or determined, either by what you have genetically inherited or by your social environment and experience. The alternative to determinism is choice and interaction this is the belief that people can take control of their own lives through the choices they make. It is sometimes referred to as the ‘free will’ viewpoint. Genetic Factors …show more content…
Bilirubin (which causes the yellow color) from these broken down cells builds up in the system causing jaundice. • Priapism. A painful obstruction of the penis by sickle cells. If not promptly treated, it can result in impotence. Any and all major organs are affected by sickle cell disease. The liver, heart, kidneys, gallbladder, eyes, bones, and joints can suffer damage from the abnormal function of the sickle cells and their inability to flow through the small blood vessels correctly. Problems may include the following: • Increased infections • Leg ulcers • Bone damage • Early gallstones • Kidney damage and loss of body water in the urine • Eye damage • Multiple organ failure Development Delays in reference to a child aged 6-18 Physical Development – Due to the low levels of red blood cells, this hinders the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to organs, tissues and cells. People with Sickle Cell Anemia will have a lower than average height and weight than those with normal hemoglobin. This lower than average height and weight continues until late adolescence. Many children with sickle cell anemia will also experience puberty at a later stage at around 13-14 years of age for girls and 13½-14½ years of age for boys, rather than the average age of puberty for children who are unaffected by sickle cell anemia
Jaundice: If the liver becomes overwhelmed by the breakdown of sickle cells, it can be damaged, causing Jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes.
P1 – Describe physical, intellectual, emotional and social development for each of the life stages
Infection is more severe in infants because the majority do not receive the preventive antibiotics initiating dead. Red blood cells provide oxygen and nutrients for the growth of the body, this affects healthy cells by slowing the growth of the body. Visions disorder is another symptom causing the damage of the blood vessels that go to the eyes dislocating the retina which can lead to blindness. In addition, sings patients can present during sickle cell anemia are painful swelling of hands and feet, Fatigue, and a yellowish discoloration of the skin (jaundice), or whites of the eyes (icterus). Another common factor affecting the body of a sickle cell anemia person is brain complications; this occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked cells can die causing strokes. Some symptoms of a stroke can be the weakness of a lower or upper limb, trouble understanding, loss of balance and severe pain in the head. Mental health can be damaged with sickle cell anemia causing individuals to feel frustrated, sad or depressed. This can occur because people are not able to perform daily activities as others making them feel this
Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that’s passed down to a child at birth from their parents. Babies inherit two abnormal genes one from each parent which causes the red blood cells to become deformed and change shape. Genes are elements is the cell that allows certain information determining traits like eye, hair color, etc. Normal rbc’s are flat, flexible, round with dimples in the middle taking on a doughnut like shape. These cells are able to move throughout the blood vessels suppling oxygen all over the body. Sickle rbc’s are long, stiff pointed ends, taking on an old farm tool called a sickle. Which is where its name derived from. These sickle shaped cell begin to bunch together causing a backup in the blood vessels causing
Symptoms include pain in the joints or suddenly in the chest, dizziness, low oxygen in the body, inflamed fingers and toes, shortness of breath, and even yellow skin and eyes. (Powars, 1) Not all of the symptoms will happen to one patient, but these are a possibilities. Swollen hands and feet may be the first signs of sickle cell in infants. Dangers of sickle cell would be the organs it can effect. It can damage the kidneys, lungs, and spleen and it also effects red blood cells. Sickle cell can even cause vision problems by the sickle shaped cells clogging tiny blood vessels. This can even damage eyes. Because of unhealthy, sickle shaped, red blood cells, it can delay growth in children and delay puberty in teenagers. (What Is Sickle Cell Disease?, 1) Now what everyone wants to know… Is there a cure? Sadly there are no known cures (yet), but treatments and medications may help. Treatments include blood transfusions, medications, and very rarely a bone marrow transplant, but that is a high risk operation. ("Sickle Cell Disease: What Is It?", 1) The disease may respond positively to treatments, but sickle cell itself won’t go
Frequent infections. Sickle cells may affects and damage your spleen, Physicians commonly give babies and children with this disease vaccinations and antibiotics to prevent life-threatening infections, like
Sickle Cell is a disease that you hear about, but not as often as you should. It is an inherited disease, “the name derives from the red cells in the blood of sufferers and they take on the shape on a sickle (crescent shape).” Another name for sickle cell is sickle cell anemia, because in some cases people become anemic. With this disease comes low levels of hemoglobin, which is the red substance in your blood that contains iron and carries oxygen. Due to the irregular shaped cells this can cause blockage and prevent normal blood flow, this prevents the cells carrying oxygen around the body properly. Shortage of oxygen can lead to damage that can occur in almost just about any organ in the body. Sickle cell is found more often in African Americans. It is said that the disease originated from Africa and most common in West Africa.
With people who have sickle cell disease they have two abnormal hemoglobin genes (NIH, n.d.). A person can be a carrier of the sickle cells gene but not have the disease. If someone has the trait mates with someone else who carries the trait their off spring will have a 25% chance of having sickle cell disease, 50% chance of being a carrier of the gene but not having the disease, and a 25% chance of not being a carrier of the mutated gene. The two abnormal hemoglobin cells are called hemoglobin S (NIH, n.d.). The defect of the gene is in the beta globin part of the hemoglobin which changes the way hemoglobin works (NIH, n.d.). Normal red blood cells are disk shaped but with Sickle cell disease the red blood cells can be rod shaped, crescent shaped, or sickle shaped making it difficult for the cell to travel throughout the body and they get stuck to vessel walls and blocks or slows the flow of blood (Ignatavicius, D., & Workman, M., 2013). When the sickle cells stick and slow or block the blood flow oxygen cannot reach the tissue and this can cause severe pain and result in a crisis (Ignatavicius, D., & Workman, M., 2013). The poor oxygen delivery over time can cause organ damage (Ignatavicius, D., & Workman, M., 2013). Sickle cells do not change shape easily and unlike a normal red blood cell that lives approximately 90 to 120 day sickle cells only live about 10 to 20 days
First of all what is sickle anemia? It’s a disorder that is affects your blood cells and hemoglobin which is a molecule that is in your red blood cells that delivers oxygen to the cells and throughout your entire body. When people realise that they have sickle cell is when they have the following symptoms, chest pain problems and difficulty breathing, strokes, joint pain, arthritis and severe infections. People are diagnosed with sickle anemia at a very young age people get from their parents if both parents have a genetic gene of sickle then, more likely their offspring will have the disease it 's a very popular and common disease it affects millions of people worldwide the most common type of people who do get sickle cell anemia more than any other is African Americans because the disease is mostly in Africa and the Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Turkey, and Italy. In the United States the diseases affects more than, 70,000 to 80,000 american people and 1 and 500 African Americans and 1 in 1,000 to 1,400 Hispanic Americans have the disease already inside of their body what type of gene is making them have sickle cell that would the HBB gene is what causes sickle cell anemia. Why is it called sickle cell anemia because the hemoglobin is shape like a ‘S’ shape or it can be called a sickle instead of a normal round red cell some scientists think that the disease might be with the deadly disease of malaria because since it is common in Africa when the people
There are sometime not proper red blood cells to carry suitable oxygen in your body. Anemia is a genetic form by sickle cell anemia. Usually, red blood cells are elastic which can move and round nicely in blood vessels. If there will be any problem in as sickle cell anemia, then red blood cells changed into an inflexible. If sickle cell will be inflexible than cells cannot move blood one to another place perfectly. Red blood cells convent as gluey and looks as sickles or crescent moons. When cells shape will be unevenly than unevenly shaped cells create problems for blood vessels. These unevenly formed cells can have stuck in tiny blood vessels. These can be slow or block blood flow and oxygen to parts of body which is so necessary for human body. These makes healthy to human body. These are number of people who has sickle cell anemia. There is treatment which is provide relieve from pain and avoid difficulties. Which are related with this disease.
Sickle cell anemia is blood disorder characterized by red blood cells assuming a sickle shape. Ordinary small changes in red blood cell shape would not adversely affect the individual. However, due primarily to the excessive shape changes in the red blood cell; complications can arise within the individual. By forming a sickle shape, the red blood cell loses a disproportionate amount of its flexibility due a hemoglobin mutation. Normally, red blood cells are very elastic. This allows them to easily and seamlessly matriculate through the capillaries of the blood system. In sickle cell disease, low oxygen tension promotes red blood cell sickling. After repeated bouts of low oxygen environments the cells fail to return to normal shape when normal oxygen tension is finally restored. This then presents complications as the red blood cells can not matriculate through the capillaries. Due to this mutation complications arise the ultimately shorten the individuals lifespan. For example, as of 2008, the life expectancy of an individual infected with sickle cell anemia is roughly between 60-65 years of age. This is in stark contrast to an ordinary human being who is expected to live roughly 80 years. Various complications can occur that often shorten the lifespan of those who carry the gene. Complications include vaso-occlusive crisis which is caused by red blood cells restricting blood flow through the capillaries
To sum up, having the inherited blood disorder sickle cell anemia that affects the blood means a lifelong battle against the health problems it can leads to, such as stroke, pain, and infections. Even though it highly effect the normal function of the body systems, many people are able to have a very good quality of life by learning to manage the
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the hemoglobin-Beta gene found on chromosome 11. Red blood cells with normal hemoglobin (hemoglobin-A) are smooth and round and glide through blood vessels, but the ones infected with sickle cell tend to be more of a crescent shape and don't slide as easy. To get the disease you must receive two of the genes from your parents. If you only have one you will have what is called Sickle Cell trait but there are no symptoms or problems for most people.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the many chronic health conditions yet to be well understood by health care professionals; hematologists included. It is an inherited genetic condition characterized by sickled shaped red blood cells, which alter their oxygen carring capacity. Sickle cell disease is passed from parents to offspring and it is characterized by numerous complications such as anemia, pain, infection, splenic crisis, acute chest syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, stroke, leg ulcers and multiple organ failure. It is an autosomal recessive disorder which means two copies of an abnormal sickle cell gene (Hemoglobin SS
Human development is a very complex process – from conception to death. There has been a long debate on whether human development is determined by nature or nurture. If their growths were all guided by nature only, they would all be born with a mind of “blank slate”. This means that they do not have any inborn ability to do anything when they are born. On the other hand, if their growth was determined by nurture only, it would mean that they were fully equipped with all the skills they need in their lives when we are born. In other words, all the physical and mental skills they have right now would have been inherited from their parents and the environment they grow up in has no effect. This essay will focus on the effects of both