Cord blood?It is very important to decide to
store your child’s umbilical cord blood and know what happens to it during and after the collection of cord blood. The
process is majorly called harvesting wich does not have any physical impact on the
child or the mother .Most of the blood containing stem cell is not actually
taking from the cord itself but almost 97% of the blood comes from the
placental while the remaining 3% comes
from the cord. All these process is done
before the delivery of the
placental but after the birth in order to avoid clothing .A clean and tidy
environment must be maintained so that it is free and not contaminated. Collection of UCB
is a safe procedure even for high risk deliveries in which the mother may have
high blood pressure or may be a diabatic,or a premature birth but only mother thah have tested with HIV positive or
with Hepatitis B or C are not eligible
to store their child’s umbilical cord
blood.
Once the UCB is collected it is
transported in a special container to the bank. When it arrives it is
assigned to a technician that is responsible for testing it for fungal and
bacterial contamination. The technician assigns it a number, marks it and
enters the birth date, date it was processed and lists the exact
contents. The stem cells are separated from the plasma and red blood
cells. This produces viable cells that are minimally incompatible with
persons in the child’s immediate family that can be used should family members
need a transplant.
Core blood ,The cells are store in a
two chamber bags, a development that will allow more than one treatment,
technicians can remove some of the cell without disturbing the remainder of the
batch and what left can be used in treatments in the future.The
preces of storing the cell is very intresting from the collection stage till
cell is stored.
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