ABSTRACT
Sickle cell disorder or sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of hereditary illnesses affecting the red cell hemoglobin. Various types of these disorders exist including sickle thalassemia and sickle cell anemia (SCA; HbSS), also known as drepanocytosis. Parents who possess heterozygous genotypes (HbAS) are sickle cell carriers, and their offspring have a one in four chance of having a homozygous sickle genotype (HbSS) or a homozygous normal genotype (HbAA).1,2
In our daily diets, there are food substances we take that are rich in antioxidants and other nutritional components that help boost the immune system and ward off diseases. SCA is a genetic disease, and so dietary supplements cannot stop the manifestation of the disorder, but a well-nourished and supplemented SCD individual can be spared the severity of the disease and go about life without the crisis episodes inherent in the disorder.
