Do you need the service of a cord blood bank?

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



Successful treatments of blood and immune systems diseases gave birth to umbilical cord blood banking. Saving cord blood became important upon discovering that hematopoietic stem cells found in cord blood are progenitor cells. These cells can create red and white blood cells and platelets.

There are public and private cord blood banks.

If you submit yourself to public cord blood donation, you are actually letting somebody have your cord blood for free. Consequentially, you are no longer entitled to use the cord blood nor will it be reserved for you.

Private cord blood services entitles you, the donor, and your family to use the cord blood should the need arise. The cord blood bank is just keeping it safe for you.

Cord blood banking is a relatively new ordeal. It is not yet a widely recognized practice. This is the reason why there are relevant problems that plague cord blood banks.

Cord blood storage is an ongoing challenge. Cord blood is stocked frozen, and questions on the feasibility of long-term freezing are yet to be answered. Safety is also a concern in public blood banks. Because of privacy matters, cord donations in public banks can not be traced to its donors. Hence, they will not have the chance to use their potential stem cells if they acquire blood or immune disease
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Both in private and public banks, cord blood storage prove to be expensive. In fact if you opt to benefit from private cord blood banking services, you must be ready to pay upon collection and every year thereafter.

There are apprehensions about the current interest in cord blood donation. In this interest, the incorrect decision to collect more cord blood (if the collector deems it unnecessary in the process of birth), decreases the amount of blood infused into the infant. This means that the umbilical cord is instigated to premature clamping for extraction of spare cord blood. This could result to damaging effects on the child.

Undertaking cord blood banking is a decision you should think about. Donating or keeping it for future use can truly save lives, even yours. Then again, research shows that the need for cord blood is very minimal, approximately 1:1,400.


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