Sickle Cell Anemia Cause for Lifestyle Adjustments and Ways to Cope With the Pain
If you have sickle cell anemia, it’s important to take good care of yourself to help prevent sickle cell crises. Many people who have sickle cell anemia now live into their forties or fifties, or longer.
Maintaining the following healthy lifestyle habits are recommended ways to live and cope with this painfully debilitating disease:
- quit smoking
- eat a healthy diet
- drink lots of water
- get plenty of sleep and rest
- limit consumption of alcohol
- exercise moderately ~ regularly
- regular consumption folic acid for red blood cell production
Along with healthy lifestyle habits, some other life coping routines to help prevent a sickle cell crisis:
- reduce the stress in your life
- don’t travel in unpressurized airplanes
- avoid extreme heat, cold and high altitudes
- avoid decongestants ~ constricts blood vessels
Contact your doctor if you have any signs of an infection, fever or trouble breathing.
Finally, discover a pain management plan that works for you. Some ways to manage pain include:
- plenty of rest
- take hot baths
- use a heating pad
- get regular a massages
- counseling, self-hypnosis, homeopathy
- other activities that keep your mind off the pain
- physical therapy to help you relax and strengthen your muscles and joints
Be good to yourself and take your life one sickle crisis at a time. There is always hope in research ~ hang in there.
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