The cutting edge technological development in medical sciences has opened new and efficient ways to cure diseases.
Stem cell therapy is one of these methods that have the potential to cure a wide range of diseases in near future for most of the diseases. Parents have started preserving stem cells of their newborn baby in order to ensure future treatment for their kids.
What are stem cells?
Stem cells are derived from human umbilical cord or bone marrow. They have the capacity to multiply and can form mature blood cells, nerve cells and muscle cells.
Stem Cell Therapies:
Autologous are those in which patient’s own stem cells (adult stem cells) from the blood or bone marrow are used.
Allogenic: are those which use stem cells from a donor. The adverse event being in a number of cases these donor stem cells may get rejected by the recipient’s body. This method has not yet been legalized in India.
Curing diseases through stem cell therapy: Present & Future
Stem cells can be used to treat different types of blood cancers and other disorders like immune and metabolic disorders. Stems cell therapy has wide scope for treating Alzheimer, strokes and traumatic brain injuries and Parkinson’s disease in coming future. Research is under process for treating diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, liver cirrhosis and even cerebral palsy, other disease conditions that may be cured using stem cell therapy includes Peripheral nerve injury, MDR tuberculosis, Hair loss, Restores eyesight, kidney transplants, HIV, paralysis and multiple sclerosis.
Stem cell therapy has been used experimentally on a number of disorders including certain types of cancers and traumatic spinal cord injuries.
The patient will notice the improvement within 8 weeks to 1 year after the treatment depending on the severity of the disease.
This new therapy is currently being widely used where patients have suffered from a traumatic spinal injury or neurological disorders giving completely paralyzed patients a chance to regain mobility.
Stem cell therapy in India
1. Chaitanya stem cell centre
2. Apollo Hospitals
3. LifeCell
4. Live100 Hospital
Revised Guidelines
India's revised stem cell guidelines aims to protect patients from doctors offering unethical stem cell treatments. According to the regulatory guidelines stem cells cannot be given to patients as a “Therapy” and can be used only in "clinical trials" after approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), except the use of haematopoietic (blood forming) stem cells for treating disorders of blood.
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