Sarah Krebs was hysterical when her son, Teddy, was diagnosed with leukemia, and said that the credit for obtaining a 97% chance of recovery was due to something that many women throw away, according to what was reported by the website Mirror British.
Krebs appealed to pregnant women to donate their placenta after birth, or placenta, as this organ helped save the life of her child, which is often discarded after birth, but the latter can help treat people with leukemia because it contains umbilical cord blood. Full of stem cells.
Unlike adult stem cell donors, cord blood does not need to be an exact match to the patient because it can be developed to suit the recipient.
In detail, Krebs, a mother of twins Teddy and George, faced her worst nightmare last year after she noticed that Teddy was suffering from swollen glands and lumps in the back of his head, and he was only a year and a half old at the time.
In this context, Krebs was frightened when she saw the lumps, especially because her cousin died of leukemia, and when she took Teddy to the hospital, the doctors were not worried at first, but she asked for a second opinion within 24 hours and discovered that her child’s life was in danger.
After further tests, Teddy was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and Krebs was told her son would need to undergo chemotherapy. Despite being told it was in the early stages, the child’s condition quickly worsened and he urgently needed a stem cell transplant.
After a mismatch between Teddy’s cells and his brother George’s, Teddy received the umbilical cord from an 11-year-old boy in Spain. Krebs said that her son recovered due to the cord blood transplant, and that there was no inflammation of the mucous membrane, and there were no painkillers. And he was still eating.
Teddy is now three years old and has a 97 percent chance of recovery, and Krebs is urging more pregnant women to donate and extend a lifeline to someone else.
2024-01-02 15:43:55
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