September is recognized as Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and a walk-a-thon will be held Saturday at Dothan’s Westgate Park to raise awareness and money to support families dealing with the
The local Sickle Cell Walk-A-Thon is in its 11th year, but an education effort to raise awareness and provide information has been going on for 15 years, said Joan Dangerfield, the public relations chairman for the Community Advancement Foundation.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder. Abnormal hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to different parts of the body, causes the red blood cells to harden, become sticky, and develop a C-shape similar to a sickle, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The sickled cells die early causing a constant shortage of red blood cells. The cells also get stuck in blood vessels and can clog blood flow.
On Friday, a continuing education webinar will be held at 10 a.m. featuring Dothan native Dr. Wally Smith, internal medicine specialist with Virginia Common University, and Dr. Wanda Whitten-Shurney, director of the Coordinating Center for Newborn Hemoglobinopathy Screening Program for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Visit www.cafservices.org for more information.
“It’s an inherited blood disease,” Dangerfield said “We can Google anything now, but I don’t think the public or people in general realize the need for blood transfusions that come with this disease.”
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