It can provide an extra life guarantee for children and families. Collecting umbilical cord blood can only be done when the baby is born, so there is only one chance in life, and it is irreparable to miss it. The main purpose of storing baby umbilical cord blood is to store hematopoietic stem cells in umbilical cord blood. These cells are very unique for every baby, because they are unique genes that build the baby's blood, organs, tissues and immune system. More and more families now choose to store umbilical cord blood for their babies as a possible treatment for dozens of cancers, blood diseases, immune system and genetic abnormalities in the future.
In your life, some decisions can be postponed, but the storage of cord blood is not the case, because cord blood can only be collected within a few minutes after the birth of a newborn. Therefore, a decision must be made during the pregnancy of the expectant mother. When you store umbilical cord blood for your baby, you also store a "self-healing" biological resource for your baby (even the whole family).
2. Umbilical cord blood stem cells have the ability to cure diseases.
At present, it is known that stem cells can treat more than 70 kinds of diseases, and are used as treatment methods for many cancers, and even some diseases can be cured, such as hematological tumors, immune system diseases (such as lupus erythematosus) and hereditary diseases (sickle cell anemia). Stem cell research has made new progress every day. In the future, stem cells can be used to treat spinal cord injury, stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, diabetes and AIDS. Umbilical cord blood provides another source of stem cells, which can replace bone marrow therapy in many ways. Recently, more and more doctors choose umbilical cord blood stem cells as a new treatment to replace bone marrow transplantation. Because the probability of "graft versus host disease" in cord blood transplantation is low, and the success rate of cord blood transplantation is higher than that of bone marrow transplantation.
3. Umbilical cord blood stem cells are genetically unique.
If your baby needs stem cell transplantation, the stem cells in the baby's own umbilical cord blood are 100% matched and matched. In technical terms, the six tissue antigens are completely matched, which is the most ideal transplantation method. In addition, the umbilical cord blood stem cells of infants have a 75% chance to match the tissue antigens of siblings, while the parents of infants have a few chances to match them.
4. Store for future breakthroughs in stem cell research.
Judging from the daily accumulation of successful transplantation cases and new breakthroughs in stem cell research, more and more prospective parents choose to store neonatal umbilical cord blood. Moreover, from the current stem cell research, it is known that it may become a new treatment for spinal cord injury in the future, and it is more likely to treat some common diseases, such as stroke, heart disease and AIDS. From this point of view, it is more important to store baby umbilical cord blood. The family umbilical cord blood storage plan allows you to store stem cells that are consistent with your baby 100%. At present, umbilical cord blood is stored in liquid nitrogen cryogenic tank (-196℃). Under this condition, umbilical cord blood can be preserved for a long time. However, due to the recent development of this technology, according to the research, stem cells can be safely frozen for at least 15 years, and may continue to be preserved for a longer time, and applied to clinical transplantation.
5. Your family history is very important.
If someone in your family has a disease that can be treated by stem cell transplantation, the chances that your baby or baby's siblings need umbilical cord blood will increase relatively. Biomedicine has made rapid progress. No one knows how many diseases or injuries umbilical cord blood stem cells can treat in the future, but now many people have regarded storing umbilical cord blood as a new health insurance. Family umbilical cord blood storage plan not only provides self-protection for diseases that are known to be treatable today, but also provides hope for many possible diseases in the future.