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Eli's Gone

03/28/10 2:52 PM

#201593 RE: FIAT #201592

Yeah...simply having the trait is a walk in the park-just ask the football and basketball players who have succumbed to heat and exercise related deaths who carried the trait---and the rest of these non-sickly people...

People with the sickle cell trait have one copy of the sickle cell gene. Two copies of the sickle cell gene yield the full sickle cell disease. Effects of the sickle cell trait vary depending on the carrier but are generally rare and usually mild and manageable.

Urinary Tract Infection in Women
1. Women with the sickle cell trait have a higher risk of urinary tract infection than female noncarriers.
Exercise-Related Death
2. Men and women with the sickle cell trait are more likely to experience unexpected exercise-related deaths.
Splenic Infarction
3. When carriers of the sickle cell trait are exposed to altitude-induced hypoxia (oxygen deficiency), they have a greater risk of having a splenic infarction (death of spleen tissue) due to the irregular shape of the red blood cells.
Hematuria
4. Sickle cell trait carriers are more likely to experience hematuria, or blood in the urine.
Heat Stroke
5. Heat stroke, or exertional heat illness, has a higher occurrence among carriers of the sickle cell trait as opposed to noncarriers.
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wEaReLeGiOn

03/28/10 3:05 PM

#201595 RE: FIAT #201592

You've misread FIAT, and missed the nuances. You're completely incorrect with your assumptions regarding 'Sicklers' and trait carriers being 'sickly' and how and for whom Nicosan was designed.

Trait carriers aren't in need of Nicosan, and Sicklers don't have the immunity that trait carriers enjoy vis a vis Malarial infestation, as you aver.

There is no point in discussing Nicosan, or SCD without very basic and correct understanding. People who have SCD are born with SCD through chromosomally indication. This is the low coefficient end of the genetic mutation. Those who are exposed to Malaria, who are not genetic trait carriers, are subject to Malarial infestation.

Btw, "sicklers" is a term frequently used to describe an individual, a human being, a person, suffering from Sickle Cell Anemia, "Sickle" - therefore the reference. We all know it doesn't mean "sickly"