Plasma Therapy on Covid ....
By Paras Pandey
@parpande (1515)
Bangalore, India
May 9, 2020 2:58am CST
This is nothing new for bunch of those who would follow Corona news religiously till now ... I am sure they would have heard Plasma therapy by now. I watched few videos on the Youtube and on mainstream news channels for plasma therapy , plasma constitute near to half our blood . It has to be separated from main blood stream which appears as a yellow fluid , and for those who suffered and cured off Covid are assumed to have antibodies in their plasma to combat Covid virus.
Well, this sounds relieving ... is nt it? But the regular news would not show that what is the cost of separating plasma from the blood? Also is there any specific checklist before injecting the plasma borrowed from the donor to any patient ... I feel this would need caution because any sort of strange injection in our blood would possibly be treated as any foreign infection by our own body`s immune system this may/may(not) cause our body adapt/reject that plasma.
Even I further checked for the patients` response to such plasma therapy. But I am happy to know that such patients are relieved though not cured from such a therapy. By the end of this year it is predicted that there should be a vaccine for such an incurable infection ....
There is also a mention of 'anti parasitic drug covid 19' that seems to be airing these days. Couple of other medication tried so far were anti malarial,Anti HIV drugs which has relieved some patients of Covid 19.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
9 May 20
Separating plasma from red blood cells is done simply by centrifuging blood, that is making it spin at a certain time and at a certain speed. It's a very easy procedure.
Blood transfusions are, whole blood, blood cells and plasma. Its just like a simple plasma transfusion with all precautions like blood typing, cross matching etc... would be done. This is how I understand it and I had not yet done much readings on actual plasma therapy for NCOVID-19
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@parpande (1515)
• Bangalore, India
9 May 20
It sounds more of valuable information. Even I had a suspicion that maybe a patient who is not entirely cured from Covid but still fighting with the disease may also have developed some traces of those antibodies in its plasma .... is that not right?
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
9 May 20
@parpande yes but in my opinion if it's still an active infection the body's specific defences are still reading the genetic code of the virus so it might be incomplete unlike those who had fully recovered. Those with active infections also still has the dangerous virus in their system.
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@parpande (1515)
• Bangalore, India
9 May 20
Yes , even I feel such but the point is that the dying patient is cremated rightaway but no researchers or biologists in India are actually taking any lead to study such a corpse because of that virus threat that spreads within no time.
