What is Plasma therapy
Plasma therapy uses antibodies found in the blood of people who have recovered from infection (or convalesced) to treat infected patients. In this treatment, blood is taken from a person who has recovered from the disease, and the serum is separated to be tested for antibodies.
Plasma
therapy Challenge in coronavirus (covid-19) : Getting donors to come forward
A month after the Delhi
government got permission to start convalescent plasma therapy trials on
Covid19 patients, finding donors to come forward was still a challenge.
According to sources, more than 440 people have been contacted by the Delhi
government to donate plasma, of which 15 have agreed. About 7,264 people have
returned / moved / been discharged from hospitals since May 27.
In Delhi, seven institutions -
All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS); MaulanaAzad Medical College
(MAMC) in partnership with the Institute of Liver and Biliary Science (ILBS);
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital; Batra Hospital; Lou Hardinge Medical College; Ram
Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML); and Max Hospital Saket - allowed to participate
in trials, and tried hard to encourage patients who had already failed to
donate plasma.
The Delhi government hospital
at Lok Nayak has completed the first phase of clinical trial in 20 Covid-19
patients. Those who were cured and released from hospital were counseled by
experts and, if they agreed, were transferred to ILBS by donating plasma.
When the plasma is donated, it
is sent to Lok Nayak for distribution to patients. "There are awareness
information on the people. We advise the hospital in Matthe while it was a
waste, many agree to donate their plasma. But when they get home, after
consulting with family members, their decision changes. There is still violence
among the people about treatment. hospitals, "says a senior doctor.
The right plasma donor is, in
principle, a healthy person in the age group of 18-60 years without co
morbidities of the resources, out of 440 people contacted, most were not
eligible for donations due to their age or health conditions, and some declined
to donate for various reasons.
Many plasma donors have
conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and are not eligible to
donate. Those over the age of 50 have many diseases and cannot donate plasma.
Many still suffer from post-traumatic illness and are not comfortable. patients
are not eligible to become donors, ”said a senior official from the health
department.
The most patients with mild and
moderate symptoms are admitted, there have been four and five plasma donations.
Hospitals urge people to donate plasma but not many are coming forward in this
case. At Max Hospital, Saket had used the herb in two patients in April. While
one died, the other showed better. The union's Department of Health and Welfare
says that treatment is not allowed for treatment and is one of the many methods
tested.
Older
men worry less about Covid-19 than others
Data on Covid-19 has so far
revealed that men are more vulnerable than women, and the elderly are more
vulnerable than the young. Now, research has found that older men are less
worried about Covid-19 than women of their own age or younger men and women,
and as a result can run a greater contract risk on get.
This concern given that older
men are at higher risk, according to a study by researchers at Georgia State
University, and published in The Magaznals of Gerontology. In general, anxiety
begins to weaken for years, and is much lower among men than women. "Not
only are negative adult sexual feelings not their daily lives, they also
indicate anxiety and a few signs of PTSD following natural disasters and
terrorists.
Knowing that older adults tend
to worry less. Investigators administered online questionnaires to assess
Covid-19 understanding and behavioral changes. The catch was older men,
compared to all other participants, older men were less sensitive to Covid-19,
and had received a much smaller amount of behavioral changes. They had barely
worn a mask, to report that they had stopped touching their faces as a further
purchase.