Umbilical cord blood for kidney disease

Since umbilical cord blood contains a large number of hematopoietic stem cells that can rebuild the human hematopoietic and immune systems, many people regard it as the second life of mankind. Umbilical cord blood has long become another important source of hematopoietic stem cells after bone marrow blood and peripheral blood. Umbilical cord blood can be used to treat a variety of diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic granulomatous tumors. So, can umbilical cord blood be used to treat kidney disease?

1. Can umbilical cord blood treat kidney disease?

Umbilical cord blood has a magical and special medical value. This is the conclusion drawn from regular medical research. Umbilical cord blood can also be said to be people’s second life, but umbilical cord blood is not omnipotent. In principle, it cannot treat kidney disease. Although kidney disease is terrible, there are many causes of kidney disease. It may be caused by external factors or inflammation in certain parts of the body. If you want to treat kidney disease, you must first understand the causes of kidney disease, and then improve and solve it through a combination of treatment and conditioning.

What diseases can umbilical cord blood treat?

Currently, umbilical cord blood can be used to treat a variety of blood system diseases and immune system diseases, including blood system malignancies, hemoglobinopathies, bone marrow hematopoietic failure (such as aplastic anemia), congenital metabolic diseases, congenital immunodeficiency diseases, autoimmune diseases, and certain solid tumors. The special value of umbilical cord blood lies in the fact that it is rich in hematopoietic stem cells, which can be used to rebuild the blood and immune system, and is of great significance for the treatment of leukemia and other genetic metabolic diseases related to the blood and immune system.

3. The significance of storing umbilical cord blood for the second child

1. First of all, umbilical cord blood can be used for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In addition to the treatment of blood system diseases that people often pay attention to, umbilical cord blood can also be used in the treatment of more than 80 diseases such as immune system, genetic metabolic and congenital diseases, and there are countless successful treatment cases.

2. Secondly, if one person stores his/her umbilical cord blood, the whole family may benefit. Storing a portion of umbilical cord blood can be used not only by the child himself, but also by relatives based on actual matching conditions. There is no matching problem when using the baby's umbilical cord blood yourself. The baby's umbilical cord blood is half-matched with that of the parents, and the full matching rate of umbilical cord blood between non-twin brothers and sisters is 25%. Therefore, the success rate of matching using umbilical cord blood of a related person is much higher than using umbilical cord blood of another person, which greatly reduces the time for finding umbilical cord blood and matching. The clinical transplantation effect of related umbilical cord blood is better: the patient survival rate is high, and the incidence and severity of rejection after transplantation are low. This can also reduce the cost of surgery and alleviate the patient's pain.

3. If the newborn has brothers or sisters suffering from serious diseases and need stem cell transplantation, or one of the newborn's parents suffers from serious diseases and needs stem cell transplantation, it is even more important to preserve the umbilical cord blood to save the lives of family members.