delishpot:
Some men are selfish sha, in all l these, I do not see where the woman's opinion was even mentioned talkless of considered. Na wa for some people o

crackhaus:
1. Will divorce cure the little child of his sickle-cell anemia?
2. Will he be able to afford a second wife when he's already complaining of spending too much on his sick boy?

The best they can do is to stick together and care for that child properly, being SS isn't the end of the world - my mom has a Doctor friend now in his early sixties who has lived with it his entire life.
All they have to do is be doubly extra careful what the child eats, drinks, baths and plays with - apart from the periodic sickness that will come, the situation can be managed if the child is protected to a great extent from bacteria, fungi and viruses.
A very weak immune system in SS patients is actually the reason they keep getting sick, they can get infected very easily.


Also tell your friend to try for another child, there's a very high probability the next won't be SS since the first already carries the genome...but please, they should seek medical advice first before going forward.

braimeddy:
He won't be able to afford a second wife which I'm of at this stage he's. His fear is for him to have anoda sickle cell child that's why he's considering the option of divorcing his wife

crackhaus:

Like I typed before:

...there's a very high probability the next won't be SS since the first already carries the genome...but please, they should seek medical advice first before going forward.

crackhaus:

Like I typed before:

...there's a very high probability the next won't be SS since the first already carries the genome...but please, they should seek medical advice first before going forward.

Dyt:


There's more than high possibilities the other kids will be SS

If they don't want another child, they should play safe, they shouldn't try having another in the name of faith
Testing God?

The child needs both of his parents

But if they wanna have another child
There's are options
More costly
She can get preggy and when its like 10 or 14weeks not sure
She can do a foetus test to know the child's genotype
Its costly
The other option is getting both partners A chromosomes
Also very expensive
Last I knew was 2m

They can manage the child excellently well
That people won't even know
Its not s totally bad situation
They live very well too


If they are in lag
They should go sickle cell clinic idi Araba
They will be counselled and lots more

Wishing the child a happy life

braimeddy:
OK thanks for your advice

braimeddy:
OK thanks for your advice

Dyt:


There's more than high possibilities the other kids will be SS

If they don't want another child, they should play safe, they shouldn't try having another in the name of faith
Testing God?

The child needs both of his parents

But if they wanna have another child
There's are options
More costly
She can get preggy and when its like 10 or 14weeks not sure
She can do a foetus test to know the child's genotype
Its costly
The other option is getting both partners A chromosomes
Also very expensive
Last I knew was 2m

They can manage the child excellently well
That people won't even know
Its not s totally bad situation
They live very well too


If they are in lag
They should go sickle cell clinic idi Araba
They will be counselled and lots more

Wishing the child a happy life

braimeddy:
Foetus test could have been a better option but I knw quiet they can't afford that. The guy will always want to have a second baby. If u were in this kind of situation ( God forbid) what will you have done?

crackhaus:

Like I typed before:

...there's a very high probability the next won't be SS since the first already carries the genome...but please, they should seek medical advice first before going forward.

thorpido:

@Op,people still get married at this age without a knowledge of their genotypes?smh.Cos all they do during courtship is fvck.

thorpido:

Throwing away the wedding because of this situation is not good enough reason.

thorpido:
Not true.It has no scientific basis.The first has no bearing on what the second will carry.

@Op,people still get married at this age without a knowledge of their genotypes?smh.Cos all they do during courtship is fvck.
Throwing away the wedding because of this situation is not good enough reason.They should care for this baby and hold off having more children for now.They should go through the process of testing/child selection if they can afford it later on in life or they adopt.

crackhaus:


...there's a very high probability the next won't be SS since the first already carries the genome ...but please, they should seek medical advice first before going forward.

thorpido:
You no wan gree she?
We are talking medical issue here i hope you understand.
Medically,the probability of having a child with SS genotype after a first one is 25%. That means if the child falls in that 25%(which is no small percentage),it will an SS genotype carrying child.

Neverquit:

Scenario 1: parents are AS, they had four kids... 3 AA, 1 AS
Scenario 2: parents as AS, they also had four kids...all SS

crackhaus:

This your scenario 2 dey defy the laws of permutation and combination sha, not to mention natural selection.

Oga Thorpido, how possible is it that all four kids end up being SS...even without a medical degree, basic biology did not teach me this one.

crackhaus:

Brother man, free me na...
Are we not saying the same thing basically?

You say the probability of having a child with the SS genotype after the first one is 25%, I said there's a high probability the next won't be SS (which falls into the remaining 75%)

I also ended it by saying they should seek medical advise before going forward...cos even with the high (75%) probability the next won't be SS, it's still a gamble.

My submission is based on two different familes I know personally, not hear-say.
The first son in one family is SS, the second and third are not.
The second family has twins as first issue and only one twin is SS...the second issue (a boy) is not.

Seeking medical advise like I already surmised in my very first post should tell you I'm not taking the absolute stance on my opinions. The second-born may be SS and also may not be...and according to you, the chances of the former is 25%, thus leaving 75% for the latter - didn't you still prove my high probability of the latter submission in the end?

Beremx:
I know of three couples who are AS but they went ahead to get married. They are all educated and are not illiterates. Does it mean the educated couples out of ignorance go ahead and marry without doing a genotype test or they just forget to do it? I don't understand o!

,Anyway, as for your friend, i have nothing to say. They should do as they wish.

crackhaus:

Also tell your friend to try for another child, there's a very high probability the next won't be SS since the first already carries the genome...

elektra:


Please edit your post, this statement is completely false. People are telling you but you no wan gree.
The chance of getting an SS child from two AS parents is the same with EVERY PREGNANCY i.e 25%, regardless of what genotype the previous children are.

thorpido:
We are not saying the same thing exactly.You are looking at it from the value of the percentage rather than the implication of the percentage.
Let us see this picture:an ejaculate of s.emen contains about 180million sperma.25% will give you 45million sperma.That means about 45 million sperma could carry the SS genotype.Now only one sperma will fertilise the egg.Can you see the chances of one out of the 45million doing that job?It's no small percentage.

crackhaus:

This your scenario 2 dey defy the laws of permutation and combination sha, not to mention natural selection.

Oga Thorpido, how possible is it that all four kids end up being SS...even without a medical degree, basic biology did not teach me this one.

crackhaus:

I believe it's really my comment about the second not getting it with respect to the first that caused this miscomunication.

And NO, I wasn't looking at the value of the percentage, you give me no credit man...
I already interpreted the implication of the percentages before typing my previous response to you.

25% of 180million sperm carrying the SS genotype is indeed 45million, so what is the implication by percentage of having sperm not carrying the SS genotype?

Is it 135million non-SS carrying Sperm?