Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Disease treatment with menstrual blood storage


Many women curse themselves for being women during this time. As long as it is concerned with the scientists, they call this time a miracle that can save someone’s life suffering from some of the fatal diseases like Parkinson’s and even breast cancer. According to a crucial research, it has been found that menstrual blood that is usually discarded by women as a menstrual wastage has come out to be an effective medication for treatment of serious illness. It is because of the fact that menstrual blood storage possesses the stem cells that can be recovered simply and then further accumulated.

Moreover, the stem cells extracted from human embryos have raised high controversy for the last decade. The use of stem cells taken from the menstrual blood does not have ethical issues related to it. So, there is hope to solve this controversy to a large extent by the use of menstrual blood stem cells. Stem cells have the ability to divide rapidly and thus differentiate into several cells such as fat, cartilage, bone, neural and several others. It shows the sign of promising future ahead. According to the medical experts they believe that the endometrium which is the external lining of uterus can be used for treating severe ailments.

However, the above claim does not hold any clinical information. Nowadays, the scientists are encouraging women to donate menstrual blood. There have been invented new techniques and one among them is simple kit. This kit has some simple tools that can be used by any woman for the collection of menstrual blood. The collected blood is then sent for the processing in the lab and then for cryo freezing. The method of blood collection is simple and there are no risks or side effects associated with this. However, the blood sample preferably should be from the females who not above 35 years.

The response for the blood collection has been positive. The method is painless and involves no hassle. You can easily Store menstrual blood privately in the home by using menstrual cup. The cup is a conical shape silicon cup that possesses the capacity to collect the menstrual blood up to the level of 30ml. One interesting fact about this is the stem cells extracted from blood taken during menstrual cycle have the capacity to even benefit other members in the family. It includes only those whose genetic makeup matches to the donor.

According to many medical experts, they always advice women for the menstrual blood preservation at young age. It is because of the fact that the health of stem cells in the menstrual blood is superior at a young age rather than those collected at later stage. The stem cells potency is the ability of these cells to rapidly multiply to produce huge quantity of cells for the therapy in a very short span of time. Younger the woman is, more would be the potential of cells to multiply at a faster rate. Once the person knows where their blood is being stored it will give a peace of mind as they can use when the need arises. It is much better than bone marrow and a life saving alternative.

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