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What are the advantages of Cord Blood Banking

http://ae.cryo-save.com/en/services/cryocord/<br>Cord Blood has the potential to treat immune and hereditary diseases. Preserving cord blood is easy with a cord blood banking facility. Preserving Cord blood is advantageous in numerous ways. Explore more here<br>

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What are the advantages of Cord Blood Banking

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  1. Advantages of Cord Blood Banking Let’s have a look

  2. What is cord blood?

  3. When a baby is born, and after the umbilical cord has been cut, a little blood remains in the placenta and in the portion of the umbilical cord attached to it This blood is known as cord blood

  4. What does cord blood contain?

  5. Cord blood contains all the elements of blood – white blood cells, red blood cells, plasma and platelets

  6. Cord blood also contains hematopoietic stem cells which is similar to those found in bone marrow. Hence cord blood can be used as a substitute of bone marrow when needed

  7. How can cord blood be used?

  8. Cord blood can be used to treat a large number of blood and immune system diseases Genetic or metabolic diseases can also be treated using cord blood

  9. Why donate cord blood?

  10. Cord blood can be used by patients that don’t have matching blood donors in their families or those that don’t have unrelated bone marrow donors

  11. Cord blood that does not necessarily match the patient can be used in transplants. This is a huge advantage when urgent requirements arise

  12. What are the advantages of Cord Blood?

  13. Cord Blood collection is easy, safe. The collecting agency takes the blood from the placenta that is delivered and this process does not affect either the mother or the baby.

  14. Cord Blood is collected well in advance, stored in below freezing temperatures and can be used whenever the requirement arises. Unlike bone marrow, no time is needed to locate a possible donor and see if he/she is willing to donate

  15. Cord Blood transplants don’t require perfect match. Studies show that cord blood transplants can take place when the match is partial. Bone marrow transplants on the other hand, require a perfect match

  16. Immune cells in cord blood are lesser than those in bone marrow from unrelated donors that attack patient’s tissues

  17. The chances of viral infections are much lesser in cord blood transplants since less than 1% of babies are born with lethal viruses

  18. Go ahead, make the right choice and protect your family’s future

  19. Reading these points, we can see how important it is to save cord blood and how advantageous it is for patients To know more about Cord Blood visit ae.cryo-save.com/en/services/cryocord/

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