{"id":79341,"date":"2025-09-07T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79341"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:55:23","slug":"what-is-sickle-cell-disease-symptoms-and-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/07\/what-is-sickle-cell-disease-symptoms-and-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"What is sickle cell disease? Symptoms and treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LMxJ7.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Industrial strikes\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Research commissioned by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS\u00a0<\/a>Race and Health Observatory found a number of inequalities in care, funding and research provided for people with sickle cell disorder in comparison with those with other genetic disorders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-national-institute-for-health-and-care-excellence-john-stewart-england-mhra-b1238148.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">cystic fibrosis<\/a> or haemophilia.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/what-is-sickle-cell-disease-symptoms-and-treatments\/ar-AA1LMtyy?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68bdbf89817c4b44b997113dd3ca9910&amp;ei=46\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Research commissioned by the\u00a0NHS\u00a0Race and Health Observatory found a number of inequalities in care, funding and research provided for people with sickle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79342,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79341\/revisions\/79342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}