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5Авг

Autism Medical Treatment

by Doctor
Autism is today, more accurately referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD. The reason that the terminology has changed is that a newer, more nuanced understanding of ASD has brought to light that evaluating, diagnosing and treating ASD isn’t…
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Autism is today, more accurately referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD. The reason that the terminology has changed is that a newer, more nuanced understanding of ASD has brought to light that evaluating, diagnosing and treating ASD isn’t as simple as checking off a list of symptoms, and deciding this ASD child belongs one category, while another ASD child falls into a different category. The range of symptoms for ASD is very broad, and the intensity or severity of these individual symptoms can also have a wide range. One child, for example, may occasionally let the eyes stray during a conversation, while another cannot maintain any eye contact whatsoever when interacting with people.

The complexity of ASD means that while many of the symptoms are expressed as behavioral acts, there can be different reasons for this. This characteristic of a neurophysiological condition entangling different symptoms means that there are many different approaches to treating those symptoms. In some cases, behavioral therapy the most efficient way to address a symptom, where an ASD child learns new behaviors through conscious training and self-regulation.

However, in other cases, some form of typical medical treatment may be required. The prescription of certain medications or even the administration of certain medical procedures may be more appropriate. But what kind of medical treatments are used to manage ASD? Here’s a list of a few of the techniques, depending on the needs of the patient.

Tricyclics

Because ASD patients can have difficulty interacting with others, this can be isolating and even alienating, resulting in negative emotional experiences like loneliness and, ultimately, depression. In the case of ASD patients, depression can make managing obsessive-compulsive disorder behaviors even more difficult, reinforcing a reliance on repetitive behaviors that can have a negative long term impact. Tricyclics are a specific type of anti-depressant that can ease more severe depression symptoms, allowing ASD patients to lessen their reliance on OCD patterns, take more affirmative actions and more productive behaviors and routines.

Stimulants

Hyperactivity is a behavioral trait where there is so much energy and distraction to do something that focuses on a single point or task can be difficult. Surprisingly, sometimes the best way to counteract the effects of hyperactivity is to prescribe stimulants. ASD patients, if correctly prescribed, can respond to stimulants by being able to maintain and hold focus for longer periods, decreasing the more distracting effects of hyperactivity, and learning to concentrate and regulate behavior in certain situations and settings.

Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors

Because ASD is a neurophysiological disorder, there can be a combination of behaviors developed as a result of the environment, and behaviors that may have roots in more hormonal or glandular issues. The application os Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs can be useful here. SSRIs may help to reduce anxiety, depression, tantrums, irritability and even hostile behavior. SSRIs work by restoring possible imbalances in the neurochemical system, allowing for more normalized reactions and behavior.

Anti-Anxiety Medication

People diagnosed with ASD may be prone to very large, intense emotional reactions that are beyond their control. Some ASD children, as one example, experience an upset and anxiety when a routine is interrupted that is far out of proportion to what that routine is, such as not stacking blocks using a specific order of colors. This can cause irritation as a milder symptom, or range to panic and even anxiety attacks. Anti-anxiety medication can reduce this to help manage and overcome these ASD symptoms to learn to let go of certain unproductive routines.

Anticonvulsants

In some cases, one of the symptoms of ASD can be seizures, similar to, or caused by epilepsy. About one-third of ASD patients suffer from seizures, so anticonvulsants can be an important part of preventing ASD patients from coming to harm as a result of seizures.

Anti-Psychotics

Ironically, before ASD was recognized as a unique disorder, it was often misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. One of the reasons for this was that some people with ASD would respond positively to the use of anti-psychotic medication. Risperidone, as one example, has been proven o manage chronic irritability in patients between the ages of 5-16 diagnosed with ASD.

Anti-psychotics can manage aggressive or violent emotions and behavior, help decrease hyperactivity, and even improve ASD patients expressing withdrawn behavior. It can be an effective way to give ASD patients more self-control and protect others in the same environment.

Stem Cell Therapy

A relatively recent addition to medical treatments available is stem cell therapy. These were originally used in cancer treatments, to help patients fight against leukemia, but with success in cancer treatments, more and more applications of stem cell therapy are being explored, and ASD treatment is one of those avenues.

While it’s still not fully documented, stem cell therapy has shown results in decreasing aggression, improving language skills, and even reducing physical symptoms like inflammation. It can be useful in helping the ASD diagnosed to reduce disruptive behavior and give them a chance to learn more positive behaviors through behavioral therapy.

31Июл

Atypical Autism Symptoms

by Doctor
As the name implies, ASD, or autism spectrum disorder, is a condition that lies along a broad range of different symptoms and degrees of severity. Someone that is diagnosed as being in the “mild” end of the spectrum may be…
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As the name implies, ASD, or autism spectrum disorder, is a condition that lies along a broad range of different symptoms and degrees of severity. Someone that is diagnosed as being in the “mild” end of the spectrum may be able to function more or less normally, and only be considered by others to be a little introverted or maybe eccentric in some habits.

On the other end of the spectrum, symptoms can be so severe that someone diagnosed with ASD can be unresponsive and experience great difficulty interacting with others and performing normal, daily activities without significant challenges. Today, regardless of where along this spectrum a person diagnosed with ASD is, that person is said to have ASD.

However, this was not always the case. As recently as six years ago, there was another form of diagnosis used, primarily in American medical circles, to evaluate ASD. The system used different grades of the spectrum, and it had a specific class of ASD called “Atypical Autism.”

So what was Atypical Autism, and how would someone be diagnosed with it?

All In The Book

Between 1994 and 2013, a specific edition of a document known as the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was used as the textbook reference for medical professionals when diagnosing, identifying, and classifying mental disorders.  There have been five editions of this book, known as DSM since it first started publication in 1952. It was not until the 1980s, with DSM-III that autism was even acknowledged as a unique condition. Before DSM-III children with ASD were diagnosed as schizophrenic and received treatment for such.

After the publication of DSM-III, autism got much more specific examination from medical professionals and had treatments tailor-made for those diagnosed, rather than assuming schizophrenia, which was not an effective treatment and in some cases, even harmful. From this new understanding came the idea that there were different types and “grades” of autism, and one of these was known as Atypical Autism or Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, also known as PDD-NOS.

What Is It?

The other types of autism were considered Pervasive Developmental Disorders, or PDDs, and fell under five categories; autism, Asperger’s syndrome, childhood disintegration disorder (CDD) and Rett’s Syndrome. The fifth, Atypical Autism, or PDD-NOS, was a “miscellaneous” category for people diagnosed with some autism characteristics who didn’t fit into the other four existing PDD categories.

In effect, atypical autism was an admission that a person being diagnosed had traits of autism, but not “enough” in any one of the four categories to conclusively “drop that person into a box.” In some respects, it is because of the organic, nebulous nature of autism symptoms, and their varying degrees, that when DSM-V eventually came out, the five categories were abandoned, and atypical autism got folded into the others.

What Are The Symptoms?

Atypical autism, when it was still being referred to as such, as had a mix of different symptoms. In the DSM-III and DSM-IV era, Asperger’s Syndrome was considered the “highest functioning” form of autism, with some of those diagnosed with it able to function without any special medical treatment, while those diagnosed with other autism, such as CDD, required more intensive attention and treatment.

Atypical Autism was, in terms of severity, considered somewhere between Asperger’s and typical CDD autism, a “mild” form that didn’t require serious treatment or therapeutic intervention for those diagnosed to have a normal, productive life. The symptoms of atypical autism included:

Atypical/Unusual Social Behavior

This was another broad “umbrella term” that includes potentially everything from delayed responses, to an inability to maintain eye contact. The only consistent thing was that, compared to other people within that culture, the behavior was considered abnormal.

Language/Communication Deficit

Another very broad range of behaviors that could even fall under unusual social behavior. Atypical autism has characteristics such as communication difficulty. This could manifest in delayed communication acquisition, taking much longer to learn to speak, or in unusual speech patterns, such as speaking in a flat monotone, like a “robot,” having never learned to use tone or voice inflection to add nuance to words.

Repetitive Motions/Behaviors

Atypical autism could be characterized by a focus on ritual and repetition. The AA patient would fall back on repeating certain actions or rituals over and over again, either as a way to relax or to feel a sense of control in stressful situations.

Atypical Sensory Experience

Someone diagnosed with atypical autism could have a sensory experience that was different from others, either more intense or less. For example, some could have a much more sensitive experience with touch, reacting much more strongly and negatively to changes in temperature. On the other hand, that sensory stimuli could also be much less refined, such as an atypical autism child have little or no sense of smell, and unable to participate meaningfully in smell-based activities.

Because of this large range of differences, it was eventually decided in 2013 to eliminate the different autism categories. ASD or Autism Spectrum Disorder is now the sole diagnostic category.

28Июл

About Autism Assessment

by Doctor
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a neurophysiological condition that can affect both the behavior and the physical health of the person with the condition. The most obvious symptoms of ASD are the behavioral ones, such as communication difficulties. However,…
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Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a neurophysiological condition that can affect both the behavior and the physical health of the person with the condition. The most obvious symptoms of ASD are the behavioral ones, such as communication difficulties.

However, as the name suggests, ASD falls along a spectrum, meaning that someone diagnosed with this condition can have a few symptoms from a very long list, and those symptoms can be at varying levels of severity, from mild and barely noticeable to crippling in intensity. As a result, it is very important to get people diagnosed if there’s any suspicion of ASD, to assess the severity and what the appropriate treatment should be.

This requires extensive individual assessment and observation, and it’s important to remember that the current methods of diagnosis and classification we currently work with are very recent; only six years old!

The Way It Used To Be

For people living in the 21st century, it can be quite shocking to learn that less than 50 years ago, ASD didn’t even “exist” in the eyes of the medical community. A standard text reference of diagnosing and classifying behavioral disorders in American medicine is the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which has been in publication since 1952. Every few years, a new, revised edition is released which reflects the knowledge acquired and new treatment methods that have surfaced since the previous edition came out.

Before the 1980s, the DSM, as it was called, did not recognize ASD. Instead, any child or adult that, today, would be diagnosed with autism, would, before the 1980s, have been diagnosed as schizophrenic! It’s very disturbing today to think that a child with mild ASD might be evaluated as potentially psychotic, but until DSM-III came out in the 1980s, finally recognizing ASD, that’s exactly what happened to children.

The Categories Arise

From the 1980s until 2013, autism was “graded” into five categories or types, that were classified according to the severity. They went from Asperger’s Syndrome to “classic autism” that included Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs) such as childhood disintegration disorder (CDD) and Rett’s Syndrome. The fifth, Atypical Autism, or PDD-NOS, was a “miscellaneous” category used for any behavior that was clearly autism but didn’t fall neatly into one of the other categories.

As a result, autism assessment began to fall along certain lines of seriousness, with Asperger’s considered the mildest and in terms of severity, the most “desirable,” sometimes even being regarded as a sign of eccentric genius, while the others were regarded as more serious and harmful.

The Cracks Show

In 2013, however, DSM-V came out, and with this new edition, the various categories of autism were done away with, and what is used now is, simply, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD. The reason for this decision was because the insistence on “grading’” autism into strict categories often didn’t match with more “messy,” organic characteristics of different autism symptoms.

There was also a question of correct interpretations and cultural or even class biases, were white, middle or upper-class children would be diagnosed as having Asperger’s Syndrome while black, lower-class children with identical symptoms would be diagnosed more severely, and thus receive very different treatments and therapies.

Now, the entire collection of symptoms and behaviors is classed into a single condition, ASD, with individual symptoms evaluated across the spectrum, taking each one into account, for a more individualized diagnosis that can lead to better treatment.

Getting Assessed

The most important thing to keep in mind when it comes to assessing someone for ASD is that while this is a medical evaluation, it is one of behavioral analytics based on professional opinion. It is not as cut and dried as a blood test, for example, where an evaluation is conducted based on established standards. The youngest that a child may be assessed for autism is about a year and a half after birth, or 18 months, though if a parent wishes, a child can be brought in for an assessment at any age.

The first step is a testing process known as Developmental Screening. There is a “checklist” available to doctors that shows the average rates of development in key areas, such as reflexes, communication ability, perception, and other characteristics. If a child is already showing signs of ASD at the developmental screening stage or is not meeting average expectations, another stage begins.

The second stage is known as comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, a much more intensive assessment. Now, instead of basic tests, in-depth neurological examinations may be conducted, parents will be interviewed, and a variety of different tests applied to see what the exact symptoms are, and where along the spectrum they lie in order to evaluate the child’s particular expression of ASD and then decide how best to move forward to treat and manage it. This part of the test will have different results for every child.

11Июл

Different Autism Treatments

by Doctor
Most people will give birth to a child and, when it comes time to start raising this new family, only encounter the usual hazards of parenthood. Keeping children safe, dealing with childhood illnesses like colds, perhaps measles, watching as a…
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Most people will give birth to a child and, when it comes time to start raising this new family, only encounter the usual hazards of parenthood. Keeping children safe, dealing with childhood illnesses like colds, perhaps measles, watching as a child grows, learns, and socializes are all parts of the usual journey for a family.

Unfortunately, not everyone gets to have this safer, more predictable family experience. Some families face unexpected, extraordinary challenges when it comes to raising a child. One of the more unique is when a child is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD.

However, the complexity of ASD doesn’t mean that a family is faced with a guaranteed negative experience when it comes to childhood. There are many different degrees of ASD with different outcomes for different families, depending on the treatment. But why are there different kinds of treatments? To understand that, we have to understand ASD.

What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder?

ASD is a medical condition, not a disease. This already brings in certain implications, such as the fact that there is currently no known cure for ASD. While a round of vaccinations or anti-biotics won’t “clear up” ASD, the symptoms of ASD can be managed, controlled, or reduced, depending on circumstances.

ASD also has many possible “configurations,” as the usage of the word “spectrum” implies. It is a mix of physiological, neurological, and behavioral symptoms that, when combined, create a broad range of different symptoms at different levels of severity. This is why children diagnosed as “high functioning” or “mild” on the spectrum may just appear more introverted, or have some communication eccentricities that make their interactions with others unique, but otherwise, they don’t require any special treatment. On the other end of the spectrum, “low functioning” or very severe ASD can result in someone uncommunicative, withdrawn, prone to routine, and reacting with violence if that routine is disrupted.

How Is Treatment Determined?

Because ASD exists on a spectrum, there is no one universal way to treat the disorder. Someone with only mild ASD may not require any sort of treatment at all, while someone with severe ASD might require some therapy. Another person with ASD might benefit from taking a prescription drug.

However, the only way to determine what treatment best benefits someone diagnosed with ASD is to take an extensive accounting of that ASD, and understand exactly which symptoms are present, and where along the spectrum they lie. This way, medical professionals, parents, and even schools will have a better understanding of exactly what kind of behavior to expect from a child, and determine which symptoms can be managed, and exactly how that will occur. The vast majority of the time, treatment will a customized process, unique to each child.

Treatment Options

Once a better understanding of the extent of ASD has been assessed, different treatment options can be attempted. There is a huge variety of choices available, and in some cases, there may need to be some overlap or a combination, due to the nature of the ASD. Typical treatment options include:

Behavioral Therapy

This is a method of treatment that consciously trains ASD children to learn the behavior that most children internalize subconsciously, through observation. Maintaining eye contact during conversation, waiting for someone else to stop speaking before replying, and even learning to use different tones of voice, rather than a flat monotone are all examples of behavioral therapy that can be applied to a child.

Occupational Therapy

In some instances, an ASD child won’t learn in quite the same way as others but need to pick up the basics through other, less conventional methods. Occupational therapy can be important for an ASD child by teaching fundamental skills, such as motor control for reflexes, interpreting and managing incoming stimulus to facilitate learning to read, and others. Even basic skills, such as tying shoes, or eating food with utensils instead of hands fall under occupational therapy.

Medication

A wide range of medications may be prescribed depending on the tendencies of an ASD child. For aggression or intense irritability, antipsychotics, for example, may be administered. If a child’s ASD behavior has already led to some socialization and alienation difficulties, resulting in depression or anxiety, then anti-depressants may be prescribed to help control these negative emotions and build towards more progressive, permanent solutions, such as therapy.

Stem Cell Therapy

There are also newer, more recent treatments being conducted around the world, such as stem cell therapy. This requires the injection of stem cells into the system, a procedure already used to great success in cancer treatment for leukemia. However, in this case, stem cell therapy doesn’t replenish blood cells but leads to better language skills and reduced aggression.

Ultimately, however, the only way an ASD diagnosed child can receive effective treatment is through a thorough medical evaluation. Only by understanding where along the spectrum an ASD child is can the appropriate treatment be applied.

8Июл

Stem Cells Explained

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While, autism, or, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), currently has no permanent cure, there are some aspects of this condition that can be treated to manage or reduce certain symptoms. Some of these treatments are behavioral therapies, such as teaching children…
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While, autism, or, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), currently has no permanent cure, there are some aspects of this condition that can be treated to manage or reduce certain symptoms. Some of these treatments are behavioral therapies, such as teaching children to maintain eye contact when communicating, or specific training to learn how to tie shoes. Other treatments are medical in nature, such as the use of stem cell therapy to reduce aggression or increase engagement and language receptivity.

However, while stem cell therapy is providing some promising results, it is also a more recent development in medical technology. Primarily it is used in the treatment of certain types of cancer, such as leukemia, but the applications for stem cell therapy are spreading, and, aside from ASD treatment, there is hope that it may one day prove to be a viable treatment for other conditions, such as Alzheimer’s, or even paralysis.

But why? What is it about stem cell therapy that makes it so effective? What are stem cells?

From Blank To Specialized

To understand the value of stem cells, we need to go back to the basics, with the development of a fertilized egg that, nine months later, is born into the world as a fully developed baby. When an egg is first fertilized and shares its DNA with sperm to create a new DNA “blueprint” that will eventually become a baby, it is still a single cell. That cell then divides, then divides again. Over time, it keeps dividing until dozens of cells turn into thousands, then millions.

At some point, those cells begin to specialize. Some become brain cells, while others become lung cells, and still others become blood cells. All of these cells, following the blueprint of DNA, take on specific roles, becoming the various organs that make up a human being. The reason these cells can do so is that in the womb, as a baby is developing, the child relies on stem cells.

Stem cells are like a blank disc or USB stick for computers. By themselves, they are empty, but if you decide to put videos there, you can now watch videos. If you store your music there, you can listen to music. If you have the software you want to use, you can even transfer it there. In other words, that blank space or data becomes “overwritten” with whatever function you require.

A Limited Duration

Stem cells are only available in “plentiful supply” for the duration of a child’s development in the womb. Once a child is ready for birth, the available supply of stem cells dramatically drops off. However, during birth, plenty of stem cells are still available—though not necessarily used—in different parts of a mother’s body. This is where “cord blood” becomes an extremely valuable medical substance.

Cord blood refers to the biological materials found in the placenta, the thin sac that surrounds a baby during pregnancy. It is also the umbilical cord, the direct physical connection between the mother and child that acts as a “toll gate” delivering nutrients from the mother so the baby can grow. The umbilical cord also expels waste from the baby so that it can remain clean and healthy. A significant amount of stem cells remain in cord blood after birth, which is why many mothers are now asked if they would like to have cord blood collected and stored. The stem cells could be valuable material for future medical treatment.

The Less Effective Option

Once a baby is born and starts to mature, the stem cell population drops off significantly. Now, most cells can only reproduce more copies of themselves, and not all cells can do this in abundance. So while people can get cuts to their skin, and immediately have skin cells start reproducing replacements when someone suffers from amputation, the bone, muscle and nerve cells can’t grow back in the numbers required for a limb to replace itself, the same way lizards do when they lose a tail.

Stem cells are still present in people after birth, but in very limited quantities, and they don’t necessarily have the same versatility. In adults, a small number of stem cells exist in bone marrow, the brain, and liver. However, these stem cells are quite limited and can only produce related cells.

This is why stem cell therapy has been so successful for people diagnosed with leukemia, a type of blood cancer. A bone marrow transplant and stem cell therapy with stem cells from bone marrow can produce new blood cells to replace the ones damaged or rendered defective by leukemia.

Other Options

Under certain conditions, the stem cells that are harvested in other parts of the body, such as bone marrow, can be modified in labs to function as pluripotent stem cells, that is, cells that more closely resemble the embryonic cells of cord blood. However, even here, the results have not been as wide-ranging as embryonic stem cells, which remain the best source of effective stem cell therapy treatment.

3Июл

Umbilical Cord Blood For Autism Treatment

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Autism, more correctly known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a condition that, for many years, was incorrectly diagnosed under a variety of other medical conditions. Part of the reason for this is that, like some illnesses, such as…
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Autism, more correctly known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a condition that, for many years, was incorrectly diagnosed under a variety of other medical conditions. Part of the reason for this is that, like some illnesses, such as Lyme Disease, the symptoms of ASD are so varied that there may be many other reasons for why the symptoms appear beyond just ASD.

Today, with more research, and a better—though not complete—understanding of how ASD operates, it’s now understood that many of the different symptoms fall within ASD, just to varying degrees, which is why the word “spectrum” is used to describe the disorder. Someone can be diagnosed with very mild ASD, but otherwise function normally throughout life, only feeling a bit introverted or not quite fitting in with the behavior of others. On the more extreme end of the autism spectrum, however, symptoms can be so severe that normal communication is impossible and even everyday tasks, such as tying shoes, requires a special approach and training.

The Promise Of Stem Cell Therapy

The reality is that ASD is something that can only be treated, not cured. While the exact mechanisms of ASD have yet to be fully documented and understood, it’s already well known that an antibiotic or another form of medical treatment cannot make ASD go away in the same way that pneumonia or heart disease may be cured.

Because ASD has a variety of different symptoms at different intensities, it also has different treatments based on an individual diagnosis. Some children diagnosed with ASD, for example, may have more prominent physiological causes for their condition, and so a prescription of medication, such as anti-psychotics may be advised. Other children may find that the most effective approach is a psychological one, and so behavioral therapy is recommended allowing the child to learn certain behaviors while suppressing others.

One new form of treatment in recent years is stem cell therapy. This has been getting some promising results, although more research and comprehensive study needs to be done. The treatment process, however, is sound. Stem cell therapy is already a well established medical treatment alternative for some forms of cancer, such as leukemia.

Why Do Stem Cells Work?

Stem cells are an effective form of treatment because, in a way, they are ultimate “spare” or “blank cells.” Stem cells are sometimes referred to as “master cells” because unlike normal cells in the body, they can be “programmed” to become any cell that is required.

Under normal circumstances, if you experience blood loss, such as donating blood, you eventually have new blood cells grown from your existing blood cells that replace the loss. The same goes for skin that is cut or burned; existing skin cells grow new cells. Heart cells do not grow lung cells and vice versa.

Stem cells can are available in small amounts in people, with reserves located in the bone marrow. However, extracting stem cells from bone marrow is a complex, extensive activity. When no other options are available, this type of harvesting works, but yields are not large compared to some other methods.

The Secret is Cord Blood

Cord blood, however, is an ideal method collecting stem cells, and, like bone marrow, has a high degree of compatibility with the right recipient. As with a blood transfusion, stem cells must be the right “type” to be accepted by someone being treated with stem cell therapy.

For patients born in more recent years, the best source of stem cells comes from their birth itself. Stems cells are the cells used by a mother and child, as the child grows in the womb. This is how embryos develop from a general collection of cells into more specialized organs like the brain and lungs.

Unsurprisingly, because babies experience a steady rate of growth for the entire nine months of development in the womb, massive amounts of stem cells are required. These stem cells are created, and freely move about in the placenta the baby grows within, and the umbilical cord which passes nutrients and waste back and forth, directly between the mother and the baby. As a result, once a baby is born, a massive concentration of remaining stem cells is left in both the placenta and the umbilical cord.

Always Ask For Storage

Because these stem cells were involved in the development of your child, this means that any stem cells administered from “cord blood” as it is called, will be 100% compatible with a child. In other words, cord blood is, potentially, an enormously valuable medical resource for your child. This is why, upon birth, if you are given the option to have cord blood stored, you should do it. If you find there is ever a situation where your child could benefit from stem cell therapy, retrieving previously stored cord blood will be of great help and could eliminate the need to retrieve stem cells from bone marrow.

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