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=Introduction= toc Your sprinting down the soccer field your muscles are tightening probably because you're not breathing enough oxygen. Oxygen helps cells like your muscles to get energy. Inside are red blood cells are smaller structures called hemoglobin which acts like a magnet for oxygen. But some people don’t get a chance to do the fun things in sports because they may have a disease such as hemophilia that affects red blood cells.

=Delivery Truck of Your Body=

People think blood is just red sticky stuff. Blood travels through the body to the lungs to get oxygen then travels through the heart then out the heart to give the muscles the oxygen and remove the carbon dioxide. The Circulatory Story Book states that oxygen is important because when oxygen combines using glucose it converts into energy so cells can function. Carbon dioxide is also made in the body and then the red blood cell removes it so the other cells do not die. Just like firemen go into a house fire with water and extinguish fires to save innocent people, the red blood goes into the lungs to get oxygen. The cells use the oxygen, like a fireman uses water, to take out the carbon dioxide and refuel the cells. The red blood cell has a very odd structure than other cells. ==

=Structures of a Red Blood Cell=

Red blood cells or (RBC) are disc donut shaped and are pinched in the center. This is so it can maneuver through narrow spaces in the human body (“Human Biology and Health”). A mature red blood cell has no nuclei, so it can’t reproduce. But, the bone marrow reproduces the cell itself. When the red blood cell loses its nuclei it can make more room to gain more hemoglobin, meaning more oxygen for the red blood cell (“Human Biology and Health”). But the true main structure of a red blood cell is the hemoglobin and this is how red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. It also turns red blood cells red when oxygen sticks to them (“BrainPOP”).

=Hemophilia=

Hemophilia is a disease when a person can't stop bleeding because their blood clots very slowly or not at all.there for if people with Hemophilia stop bleeding because Clotting helps stop bleeding after being cut or bruised the wounds will not dry they will just eventually bleed to death unless it is stopped. It is an x-linked genetic disorder. A genetic disorder is when genes are changed when transported and passed on from parent to child. The symptoms of hemophilia are internal and external bleeding so they have different symptoms than the other to know if they have internal or external bleeding. Some examples of symptoms for internal bleeding are “ red or tea-colored urine (pee), called hematuria, black or bloody feces (poop), after a head injury, headache, vomiting, lethargy (sleepiness), or seizures, blood in vomit, and bruising” (Griffin). Some examples of symptoms for external bleeding are “ scraping the knee, getting a paper cut, losing a tooth (or having one removed), or biting down on the lips or tongue. Nosebleeds may last a while.” most symptoms for external bleeding are highly noticeable if it is easier to tell if they have external bleeding then that means they can find the the disease that the child has before they die (Griffin).

This is a story about a boy named Ryan who had Hemophilia and had the hardships of this horrible disease. media type="custom" key="28994735"

disease that is genetic and found more commonly in boys
 * 5.Causes || 5.Effects ||
 * Birth

Does not produce fibers that stick to platelets(cells that help form clots to stop bleeding)to make a clot

Mom has X chromosome Passed from mother to son || Bleed to death

Symptoms -bruise easily Bleeds Excessively Swelling in babies joints

How do you take care of yourself - ||

=Conclusion=

Now you know the truth about the red blood cell. The cell may be small but as you can see it you shouldn't underestimate the little red donut shaped cell. This cell is the key to life for all human and animals, like the key that starts a car's engine. If the red blood did not exist without these oxygen mailmen we would never be able to breath and without any doubt we would not survive because of this It should be referred as the hardest worker in the world, next to bees.

=References= Works Cited “Blood.” Brainpop, 2017. Accessed 30 Jan. 2017. Corcoran, Mary K., and Jef Czekaj. The Circulatory Story. Watertown, Charlesbridge, 2010. Dowshen, Steven, editor. “How to Deal with Hemophilia.” Kids Heath, Sept. 2016, kidshealth.org/en/kids/hemophilia.html?ref=search. Accessed 30 Jan. 2017. Griffin, Gregory, editor. “Hemophilia.” KidsHealth, Jan. 2015. Accessed 1 Feb. 2017. Padilla, Michael J., et al. Prentice Hall Science Explorer. Boston, Pearson Prentice Hall, 20