sickle cell trait is a condition you are born with. it occurs when a person inherits a single sickle cell gene from one of their parents. sickle cell trait is different from sickle cell disease. with sickle cell trait a person has both regular round red blood cells and the abnormal s-shaped cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell disease. because a person with sickle cell trait has a quantity of normal red blood cells they don't usually exhibit the symptoms of sickle cell disease. a person with sickle cell trait can pass the gene along to his or her children. if the other parent also has sickle cell trait the child will inherit two sickle cell genes. that usually means the child will be born with sickle cell disease. if you've been recently diagnosed with sickle cell trait it doesn't mean you "never had it" before. it just means no one diagnosed it until now. if you have it you were born with it. i hope this information helps!
can someone get sickle cell trait if they never had it