Question

Donate Blood plasma to COVID-19 patients
1. What is plasma therapy?
2. Does plasma therapy cure COVID?
3. How does plasma therapy work?
4. What are the risks of plasma therapy?
5. What is your opinion about donating blood?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

• 1. As the need for a COVID vaccine grows, most medical practitioners have recommended an old method for fighting the infectious disease. This treatment used is called plasma therapy. It is a medical process where blood is donated by recovered patients to establish antibodies that fight the infection. Why is it done? How effective has this medical procedure been on COVID patients are questions that this article will shed some light on

2. The guidance does not recommend antibiotic therapy or prophylaxis for patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 unless signs and symptoms of a bacterial infection exist.

3. Transfusion of plasma can lead to adverse reactions or events. Immune-mediated reactions are most common--these include allergic and anaphylactic reactions, transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and haemolysis. They can range in severity from mild to fatal.

Answer 2

Anwer:

1.When pathogens attack our body, our immune system starts working and releases proteins to fight with an infection. These proteins are known as antibodies. If the infected person produces a sufficient amount of protein then he or she will be recovered by antibodies itself.

In plasma therapy, such immunity can be transferred from a healthy person to sick with the help of blood plasma. Here convalescent plasma is the liquid part of the blood from the recovered patients of COVID-19. We can say that in plasma therapy the blood of the recovered person as it is rich in antibodies is used to treat other sick people

2.While plasma therapy has proved effective in certain cases amidst the COVID surge - hence the growing demand - however, more research is needed in determining whether or not it can really curb the mortality rate or not.

Previously, medical professionals have termed plasma therapy as 'outdated' and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had also claimed that plasma therapy does not reduce the number of deaths associated with COVID-19.

3.When a pathogen like novel COVID-19 infects the body, the immune system produces antibodies to fight the invading virus. In a recovered person, the antibody can be found in the plasma, the liquid that holds blood cells. The plasma constitutes around 55% of blood in the human body.

In the plasma therapy, antibody is taken from a recovered patient and put into a sick person's body. The antibody then creates passive immunization in the sick person to combat the virus and recover. Passive immunisation is a technique to achieve immediate short-term immunisation against infectious agents by administering pathogen-specific antibodies.

4.Transfusion of plasma can lead to adverse reactions or events. Immune-mediated reactions are most common--these include allergic and anaphylactic reactions, transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and haemolysis. They can range in severity from mild to fatal.

5.Never donors do not see blood donation as an important volunteer activity on par with others like volunteering at hospitals, schools, and support groups. Fear and inconvenience were major barriers to donating. Better education campaigns to allay fears about donating and workplace drives were considered important motivators. Participants were unaware of the need for blood. Media messages that combine safety of the process along with who it benefits were considered most effective. Messages that target the specific needs of minority communities were considered good motivators for their recruitment.