Plasma therapy to protect the infected Kovid-19

Max Hospital in Delhi first used plasma therapy to protect the infected Kovid-19. After this, it was used on three-four patients in Delhi. ICMR has also not considered it as standard care of treatment, but a patient is saved in KGMU Medical College, Lucknow.

Dr. Tulika Chandra, who decided to use plasma therapy, told in the conversation that her team had no choice but to do it. Dr. Tulika says that when there is no cure for COVID-19, then plasma therapy can be adopted with the permission of the patient. According to Dr. Chandra, it is better to avoid plasma therapy. They have also used it on only one Kovid-19 patient. ICMR has also described Kovid-19 as a trial-based therapy.

Agree with ICMR

Dr. Tulika Chandra says that ICMR is technically correct. Plasma therapy is not a guaranteed treatment of COVID-19.

Hydroxychloroquine is also not a medicine, but it is being resorted to initially.

Dr. Chandra said that she would not recommend adopting this on every Kovid-19 patient. In the language of medical science, it is only for those patients who have no other option left with the doctor to save them. Say it in such a way that there is no benefit from any other medicine. Dr. Chandra says that this therapy was used in many countries of the world on this basis. It is different than most have been successful.

Did the result in Lucknow's patient come?

The 58-year-old physician from Orai was infected with Kovid-19. Dr. Tulika says that her lung infection had increased a lot. Antibody symptoms were not coming. X-ray reports were quite poor. We had no option to save them.

Then our team of doctors decided to go for plasma therapy (transfusion) with the female doctor who had recovered from the Canadian Kovid-19 infection with the permission of the family. Earlier, the woman doctor who had been cured of the infection, underwent COVID-19 antibody test, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, Serum Protein, HIV, Malaria test. The blood group matched.

He then proceeded to therapy. After five days now the situation is very good. Antibodies started to form in the body of a doctor suffering from Orai's Kovid-19, X-ray reports have been good. It is now expected that he will recover from the Kovid-19 soon. She says that right now she is not thinking about using plasma therapy on any other patient.

Avoid plasma therapy

Why someone's plasma transfusion on someone? Dr. Tulika Chandra also says that as a doctor, this remains the first question in mind. Therefore, it is a treatment for helplessness. As such, there has been no vaccine of COVID-19. There is no guaranteed cure.

She explains that the risk of a change in the homeostasis of plasma therapy is given. There is a possibility of a reaction. An allergic reaction may occur. The person from whom the plasma is taken may be the next person suffering from the disorder present in their blood. This concern persists even during normal blood transfusions. Therefore it is used when there is no remedy of any kind.

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