Regarding newborn cord blood, many pregnant mothers should have known or been familiar with it. With the continuous deepening of cord blood science in recent years, many hospitals have also included cord blood storage awareness education in pregnancy education classrooms, so that pregnant mothers can systematically understand and learn.
However, there are some false rumors about cord blood circulating on the Internet, and various discussions and statements make pregnant mothers really confused, even if they have a certain understanding of cord blood, they inevitably have some doubts.
Today we will answer the newborn cord blood storage problems that pregnant mothers are concerned about, once answered clearly!
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Can cord blood really save lives?
Cord blood contains a large number of hematopoietic stem cells, which can be used for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and have therapeutic effects on a variety of blood diseases and immune system diseases. But cord blood is very precious, only after the birth of the fetus, the umbilical vein is collected in the distal umbilical vein, once missed, it will never be there again.
Over the years, the concept of "donationable" cord blood has not been unfamiliar to mothers, but some mothers are still confused about self-stored cord blood, so what are the advantages of self-stored cord blood?
●Self-stored cord blood, if the child is unfortunate to suffer from related diseases and needs to be used, it can be directly extracted, does not need to be matched, and there is no rejection reaction.
At the time of treatment, if the patient has his own cord blood saved, I will definitely choose my own cord blood treatment.
——Academician Lu Daopei, the father of Chinese transplantation
●Cord blood is not limited to the treatment of blood diseases, but is also used in the research and application of other diseases such as type I diabetes, cerebral palsy, brain injury and developmental dysfunction in children, and even anti-aging. Research in the field of regenerative medicine and immune cell therapy has become a new highlight in the application of cord blood in recent years.
● Self-stored cord blood, in the need of children or family members can be directly extracted, and the coincidence rate is very high, siblings have a 25% chance of full coincidence, and parents are 100% semi-compatible, simply put, the success rate of matching is much higher, can save the time spent in the public library matching, and strive for valuable disease treatment time, so the baby's umbilical cord blood is a huge stem cell treasure house brought to the family.
According to incomplete statistics, at present, the global application of cord blood has exceeded 80,000 cases, and China has exceeded 16,000 cases.
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Is cord blood collection harmful to mothers and babies?
No. Cord blood is blood collected by medical staff in the umbilical vein of the discarded umbilical cord after the fetus is delivered, the umbilical cord is ligated and broken, and it has been separated from the fetus at the time of collection, and there will be no harm to the baby and the mother.
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