Recently, a million-fan mother and baby blogger Bao Zixin published a Vlog on Weibo to share his experience of storing cord blood at his own expense, and the video triggered more than 300,000 people to watch, and became popular on Weibo, and many mothers have paid attention to and discussed.
Bao Zixin, a young mother living in Shantou, chose to store her cord blood in the cord blood bank when she conceived her second child. "Four years ago when I was pregnant, it wasn't so popular." In the video, Bao Zixin pointed out the regret of not saving cord blood due to lack of understanding and channels when a fetus was born.
Now, the maternity examination hospital has included cord blood science into the content of pregnancy education, "basically after 28 weeks, nurses will tell pregnant mothers about this problem, so that pregnant mothers can consider whether umbilical cord blood is deposited, donated or discarded." Bao Zixin said.
What exactly is cord blood?
Bao Zixin shared that umbilical cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical vein after the baby is born and weaned, and its magic lies in the fact that it contains hematopoietic stem cells like bone marrow. Through hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the human blood and immune system can be rebuilt and used to treat a variety of diseases, including leukemia, thalassemia and other diseases.
"We often see in TV dramas how difficult it is to find the right match in the vast sea of people!" Bao Zixin also shared that she learned that cord blood has the advantage of convenient access and high transplant success rate, "basically the whole family will benefit a little." ”
Why store cord blood?
In the video, Bao Zixin shared in detail the cost of self-deposited cord blood and pointed out that saving cord blood is like insurance, and every stored mother does not want to use it, but storage is a guarantee for the baby and family, and it will be more at ease.
"Cord blood is not a natural public resource, and donation or storage is ultimately a matter within the family. I feel that my financial ability is still allowed, and I am still willing to save. Bud Zixin said.
The video sparked more than a thousand likes and nearly 400 people discussed it. In the comment area, many pregnant mothers also agreed with Bao Zixin's view that they should better protect this valuable resource.
There must be some questions about pregnant mothers who have just learned about cord blood, and today we will first talk about two problems and do a basic science popularization for pregnant mothers.
01【Is the umbilical cord useful?】 What's the use of it?
From 1988, when the world's first cord blood transplant case treated a 5-year-old Fanconi anemia child, so far there have been 80,000 successful treatment cases of cord blood transplantation, and the case has proved useful!
At present, cord blood can treat more than 80 kinds of diseases, China's cord blood hematopoietic stem cell treatment technology has been applied to acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, multiple myeloma, aplastic anemia, severe radiation sickness, thalassemia and other diseases of the treatment.
In the future, cord blood will also exert greater potential in the field of regenerative medicine. For example, cerebral palsy, autism, cerebral ischemia, type I diabetes, etc., which have a high incidence but lack of effective treatment.
02【Can I use it when I spend money to save cord blood?] 】
Many people think that the use of cord blood is not a matter of probability, so they use probability to measure the cost performance of storing cord blood. But here to remind everyone, do not use the probability of use to weigh whether to store cord blood, this reference standard does not make any sense.
Storing cord blood is to protect life, and it is a blessing that the body is used, and it is another happiness that the body is not used. In either case, it is better than when you need to use cord blood for treatment, but because you did not store it for the child because of the original luck, you "can't ask for treatment".
Even some families, because they have not stored umbilical cord blood for Dabao, may choose to save Dabao when they need to use it.
[Liaoning couple, in order to save the obstacle of the big treasure of the second treasure to save the cord blood]
Mr. Wang's eldest daughter, Tong Tong (pseudonym), 10 years old, was unfortunately diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 2012. After many diagnoses and treatments, Mr. and Mrs. Wang learned that hematopoietic stem cell transplantation could save Tong Tong's life. But at that time, the eldest daughter was not stored with cord blood.
After thinking about it again, in order to save the life of their eldest daughter, the couple decided to have another baby to match with their sister. After the birth of the second treasure, the sisters were successfully matched. On July 18, 2017, the transplant operation went smoothly. Today, the indicators after the tongtong surgery are returning to normal.
As an important medical resource, cord blood is something that every expectant parent needs to know and value. Life is only once, cord blood storage is only once a chance, if the family's economic conditions allow, storing cord blood to make the lives of children and families more secure, should become the choice of more mothers.
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