Plasma Therapy

What is plasma therapy? 

What is plasma? 

Plasma is yellowish liquid portion of blood, it is largest potion of blood that contains water, salt, enzymes, antibodies and other Proteins.

It makeup about 55% of the body's total blood volume and remaining 45% are red blood cell, white blood cell and platelets 

It help to maintain a proper PH balance in the body, supply critical protein for blood clotting, help blood pressure. Plasma contains that antibodies that can help a patient fight the pathogens and recover from diseases. 

Plasma therapy. 

Plasma therapy is medically known as convalescent plasma therapy. It is a medial process in which blood is donated by recovered patients to create antibodies in infected into persons who suffering from that disease.this time plasma is taken with those  peoples who recovered by COVID-19 recently it means after 25 to 30 days. 

Who can donate plasma

Those people who recently recovered by COVID-19, afer 25 to 30 days when there is no symptoms of covid and their ages must be between 18 and 60.They are able to donate plasma. 

Does plasma therapy cure covid-19

According to ICMR plasma isn't much helpful or effective for COVID-19 patients but it has shown positive result in delhi, during the clinical trials. Researchers are also working on their maximum efficiency for different different patients. 

Processor during plasma therapy. 

Before treatment with plasma therapy.

Before the treatment of plasma therapy, the doctor will prepare you for that treatment.During this treatment, a person of your health care will insert an intravenous (vi line) into a vein on your arm. 

During the treatment with plasma therapy. 

The sterile plasma bag is attached to your iv tube and plasma drip out the bag and supplied to you. This procedure takes at least 2 hours to complete.

Ater the treatment with plasma therapy

After the plasma therapy is done, your doctor will monitor you how is your health now and will record it and will also check it? How long do you have to stay in the hospital. 

Risk for patients

No errors are likely to occur during plasma therapy. Because this therapy is done under professional doctors and they check whoever donator has come to give plasma. His blood should be tested so that no problem can come.

Who is considering is safe for donar. 

It is also safe for those who want to donate blood.Many people feel that if we give our blood to others, then we ourselves will become weak, but it is not true our body contains much more blood than we need. In male 26 ml/kg of blood is more than required, and in woman there is 16ml/kg of blood is more than requirment. The best thing about our body is that it recovers the blood very quickly.