If your infant is a sickle cell anemia and you feel a little spleen what to do before go to the hospital?

Sickle cell anemia: All patients of sickle cell anemia have an enlarged spleen to begin with but later due to recurrent splenic infarcts it shrinks.

Call your doc.: If your baby is happy, eating well, acting normally, and has no fever, no need to go the ER. Call your doc for advice. if the child is sick, call the doc or go to the ER .

Spleen complication: Splenic sequestration occurs most often in children between ages 5 months and 2 years of age. Blood fills the spleen resulting in acute enlargement of the spleen and decrease in circulating hemoglobin. This is a medical emergency. Go directly to the emergency room.