The value of blood plasma

What do we know about treating INFECTED covid-19 patients with blood plasma? In recent days, people often talk about the treatment of coronavirus with blood plasma. But what is blood plasma and how does it treat? How does blood plasma help HIV-infected people? First of all, let's explain what plasma is. This is the liquid part of the blood. If cells are removed from the blood (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets), then only plasma remains. It contains a lot of protein. Plasma proteins are involved in many blood functions, some of which are considered antibodies to diseases. As the Coronavirus spread around the world, doctors recommended using blood plasma. Treatment of the virus has not yet been successful, so doctors turned to it. According to The New York Times, blood plasma can be given to those who have recovered from the coronovirus. In other words, they will become donors for other patients. To do this, the patient can be isolated for 14 days and only after donating blood plasma. Then the donor has no risk of infection with the virus for other people. – In the plasma of a person infected with COVID-19, there are antibodies that fight the infection. The first condition-the "COVID-19" test shows a positive result and eliminates all symptoms within two weeks. The doctor needs to find out that the person donating blood plasma meets these conditions, " James Alexander, medical Director of the Community Blood Center, told the Dayton Daily News in an interview. Transfusions of donor plasma and face infected with coronavirus do not help to fully cope with the disease. The patient may only have a ready-made antibody to the virus, but it may be valid for several weeks to several months. “It is impossible to completely replace treatment with blood transfusions from donors due to coronavirus infection. This is an auxiliary procedure that is used in the absence of effective drugs,” said Russian scientist Viktor Maleev. One donor can help three patients at once. After testing for various diseases, donor plasma is transfused to patients with severe to moderate levels of coronavirus symptoms. Which countries first used blood plasma? In the world, blood plasma from sick Chinese doctors was the first to treat infected people with coronavirus. In mid-February, the head of the Jingtang hospital in Wuhan Zhang dingyu, first reported a plasma Transfusion to patients and a positive result. Then he encouraged patients to become a plasma donor. According to Chinese doctors, the clinical picture after blood transfusion changes within a few hours. Former USTA (American tennis Association) President Katrina Adams stopped being ill in March, there were no signs of the virus. He also noted the good points of infection with the virus. Because, according to him, now other people have the opportunity to give blood plasma. ""The good side is that I claim to provide plasma to save other people's lives. I have a lot of antibodies in my blood,” Adams says. Recently, Vice - Minister of health of Kazakhstan Azhar Giyanat noted that 56 seriously ill people in the country, in addition to intensive care, were transfused plasma. According to him, 90% of them have improved and are discharged from the hospital.