According to official data, in Russia a large shortage of bone marrow donors. In this regard, patients and needy people have to go to foreign registers with a request to choose them a suitable donor, which often costs more than twenty thousand dollars. Therefore, the RusFond was decided to create its own bone marrow donor registry, which will be able to apply all citizens who need it. To assist a charitable program, you can pass the analysis to define your HLA phenotype and expect applications from the patient. How to do this and where you will learn from this article.
Where to apply to become a bone marrow donor
First of all, you need to go through the typing procedure. This is the delivery of nine milliliters of blood in a specially equipped center. After that, you will be assigned a HLA-phenotype, which there is a big set. After assigning the phenotype you will be brought to the register of bone marrow donors. Of course, you will not immediately give the bone marrow, it will be necessary only when your phenotype will appeal to the patient.
You can donate blood for typing only in certain centers, the full list is on the Rusfund website link.
- Go to the official website and choose your city.
- After that, click on a small arrow next to the title of the city.
- All addresses of the Typing Places with accurate work schedule will appear before you.
How to become a bone marrow donor - the procedure for enhancing blood donors
The main problem of modern bone marrow donation is the ignorance of people that any of them can save life. A large amount of HLA types only complicates the search procedure in the donor register, as it is difficult to find the most suitable. There are statistics on which brothers and sisters are recognized as the best donors, bypassing even the biological father and mother. But this does not exclude that the perfect coincidence is possible to find among completely unfamiliar people. To put yourself in this list, make sure that you are not sick by the following diseases:
- Diabetes. People with diabetes should not be involved in any donor movements.
- If you hurt hepatitis C and B, then typing this will reveal that it will not allow you to become a donor.
- Transferred tuberculosis is also banned.
- Oncological diseases, except for the remission stage.
- HIV.
- Malaria.
It is best to take care in advance that your blood is clean: you cannot eat alcohol before passing. If you want to become a donor on an ongoing basis, then forget about alcoholic beverages at all.
As soon as you pass typing in a special center, you will be brought to the register of bone marrow donors.
Please note if you have the Invitro clinics in your city, then with more likelihood, you can take typing in it, as this is one of the Rusfund partners in this program. Find out addresses and phone numbers clinics on the official website.
How is the bone marrow fence at donors
When you are invited directly to the collection of material, you must be morally ready for what you have to do. First of all, remember that the procedure occurs under local anesthesia. And this means that you will feel only the first injection.
The fence itself is carried out by a wide needle, which is injected into the femoral bone. Most often, you need to enter it several times to collect the entire required amount of fluid.
After the procedure, you must spend at least two days under the supervision of doctors in the hospital. You can feel small signs of malaise and unpleasant urges in the joints. All the symptoms are completely leaving for the month: it is so much that your bone marrow is restored.
Do not forget about re-passing blood to follow the level of hemoglobin.
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