Stores cord blood
- Does it really need to be so tangled?
A grain of ash of the times, falling on ordinary people is a mountain. The negligible probability of getting sick may fall on an individual at one hundred percent.
Case 1
Mingyu, who lives in Mudanjiang, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2008. At a time when medical technology was relatively limited, this was a very difficult disease. In order to save the child's life, Mingyu's parents took him to Beijing for chemotherapy.
The treatment process is very long, And Mingyu's condition is also repeated from time to time, and the family is in despair. In many hospitals, families often hear that "hematopoietic stem cell transplantation" is another way to treat leukemia. But where to find stem cells is a big problem, not to mention the difficulty of matching the vast sea of people, that is, the situation of children, and they cannot wait for miracles day after day.
Some well-meaning patients told them that there was news that the eldest had a disease, the couple gave birth to the second eldest, and extracted hematopoietic stem cells from the umbilical cord blood of the second baby to transplant the boss. Many reports have also shown that the sibling cord blood matching has a 25% chance of full matching, compared with the needle in a haystack and other matching, the probability of success is already high.
At that time, Mingyu's parents were more than forty years old, and at this time, Mingyu's mother would face great risks. The heart of a parent tells them that even if there is only 1% hope, let it go!
In 2011, Mingyu's younger brother Haoyu was born, and because Mingyu's physical condition at that time was not suitable for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, this precious life fire was stored in the Beijing Cord Blood Bank. Three years later, Chen Huiren, director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Research Center of the Beijing Military Region, performed a transplant for Mingyu. Director Chen said: Mingyu's luck lies not only in having a father and mother who did not give up on him, but also because Mingyu was lucky to catch up with 25% of the matching styles. This cord blood also makes up for the regret and regret that Mingyu's parents once ignored its role.
However, in the story of Erbao saving Dabao, not every patient is as lucky as Mingyu.
Case 2
In 2016, a couple from Guangdong began preparing to conceive in order to save their daughter who was suffering from severe thalassemia. However, the first son's cord blood matching is not the same as that of the older sister, and the couple continues to conceive the second child... Eventually, after the couple gave birth to their third child, the eldest daughter was finally able to undergo a cord blood hematopoietic stem cell transplant. From a family of three to a family of six, the daughter's life was saved, but the mother caused great physical trauma due to continuous childbirth, and the burden on the whole family was almost doubled.
In the traditional concept, before considering storing cord blood, new parents always ask themselves a few questions: The price of storing cord blood is too expensive, right? Can the probability of getting sick be used so low? Stored for so long that the blood doesn't stink.: But when we don't figure out these details, it's often easy to miss the best time to store cord blood. Once the child is sick, many families have to choose to have a second child to save the eldest.
Does storing cord blood really need to be so tangled? "It doesn't matter if the child's cord blood is not preserved, in case of one in a thousand diseases, you can also match, the worst plan, is to have another child..." However, when the layers of probabilities are superimposed, storing umbilical cord blood is the best choice to outperform the god of death and avoid all accidents.
In recent years, with the continuous development of medical technology and the cord blood stem cell industry, many parents have decided to store cord blood for their children in regular cord blood banks. There is no matching problem with self-stored cord blood, and hematopoietic stem cells are properly stored in physical form in formal institutions and can be taken and used when needed, so as to win valuable treatment time for patients with various acute and severe diseases. In addition, according to a study reported at the 2007 American Annual Meeting of Hematology, the clinical transplantation effect of related cord blood is better, the survival rate of patients is high, and the incidence of post-transplant rejection is low and mild.
With the advent of the three-child era, the autologous storage of umbilical cord blood not only shoulders the mission of protecting the health of the self-survivors themselves, but also may bring treatment hope to their brothers and sisters, and can basically achieve multi-use, long-term use and safe use.
At present, there are seven cord blood banks approved and accepted by the national policy planning and the Ministry of Health, which are located in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong and Guangdong. Professional cryopreservation, strict management, and more and more advanced medical technology make it possible to "keep" cord blood.
In fact, there is more than one choice left for each family: Sun Yuan, director of the Blood Center of Beijing Kyoto Hospital Children's Hospital, said, "If a healthy family can receive it financially, it can store cord blood, and self-storage of cord blood is like buying insurance, once it is sick and needs to be used, it will save more costs." If the conditions are limited, consider donating cord blood to the cord blood bank, and if the child suddenly gets sick, you can also apply for docking cord blood bank resources. ”
Pei Xuetao, director of the Institute of Mathematical Medicine of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, added to this view: "Cord blood hematopoietic stem cells are definitely of application value, and with the further deepening of this research, it should be said that its value will be more and more recognized by everyone, and its application scope will be more and more extensive." ”
Professor Fang Jianpei, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University, gave his own views from the perspective of practical operation: "At present, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is used to treat blood diseases, such as bone marrow transplantation, with high pairing requirements and large rejection, and the cost of postoperative rejection can reach 500,000-700,000 yuan, or even more. With autologous cord blood, the overall cost of treatment can be greatly reduced because there is no anti-rejection reaction. Therefore, storing cord blood is equivalent to buying an important layer of protection."
If the starting point of self-storage cord blood is to provide health protection for children and families, then choosing to save cord blood in a professional cord blood bank is responsible for this life fire. It is worth mentioning that the umbilical cord blood bank of the Bank of Life, which is approved by the state and approved by the acceptance, preserves the umbilical cord blood, and the blood bank has prepared a medical insurance worth millions of dollars for each child who saves the umbilical cord blood, including accident injuries, transplant treatments and other types, which can not only reduce the economic burden of the whole family in stem cell transplantation, but also truly protect the daily health of the child.
If you don't know about cord blood, don't judge it by "storage is useless"; if you know cord blood, support it with a developmental eye.
I hope that in today's medical technology progress, after more and more people realize the potential and preciousness of cord blood, the arrival of the "second oldest" no longer means saving lives, but means reinforcing the flame of life for the whole family and escorting the whole family.
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