Cord Blood Donation Criteria
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In recent years there has discovered that the blood contains large numbers of stem cells that can be used to cure some diseases which hitherto had a very difficult treatment, such as leukemia and other disorders of the bone marrow.
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood, by their degree of immaturity, can be adapted easily to any body, which reduces the problems of incompatibility is in any kind of transplant.
Faced with such great potential therapeutic has been developed in recent years the creation of banks umbilical cord blood that logically require the donation of mothers who have just one child.
In Spain, the donation and storage of cord blood are regulated and controlled by the National Organization for Transplants, which oversees banks umbilical cord blood and the records of existing donors, which guarantees the rules for their extraction and use .
Who can donate and how to become a donor
Any pregnant woman who has had a healthy pregnancy can be a donor umbilical cord blood.
If you want to become a donor has to contact any of the banks umbilical cord blood available to sign their consent. The steps that must be given below are as follows:
Making a medical history of the mother in which they detail the possible infectious diseases, conditions and other hematologic incidence health advised against the use of cord blood.
At the time of delivery will be made to the mother a blood test to rule out any infection can be transmitted by the cord blood, especially hepatitis B and C, HIV and syphilis
A clinical examination of the baby after birth.
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