Plasma therapy offers ray of hope in treatment of Covid-19

Plasma therapy has shown a silver lining in the treatment of coronavirus Covid-19 disease, which has become an enigma worldwide. This therapy has successfully treated a 49-year-old severely infected person for the first time in the country. This success has been achieved by doctors of Max, a private hospital in Delhi. Physicians are very excited about the recovery of the patient within four days from this therapy.

The hospital said  that the patient, who was resident of Defense Colony, was admitted on April 4 in the East Block of Max Hospital. He was confirmed to Corona in an investigation the same day. Initially, he had fever and difficulty in breathing, but within a day or two, the situation became serious. Due to this oxygen had to be given, but he got pneumonia. The lungs were also unable to function properly. Because of this, he had to support ventilators at ICU on 8 April.

At the same time, his family urged the hospital administration to treat him with plasma therapy. The relatives themselves brought the donor, who had recovered three weeks earlier. The Donor’s report twice came negative. But as precaution, in addition to corona the hospital conducted HIV, Hepatitis B and C tests on the donor. These reports were also given to the patient on April 14 after taking plasma from their blood.

According to the doctors, after four days the results were startling and the patient report came negative. Ventilator support was also removed on 18 April. Although he was being given oxygen.

Plasma Therapy: A Silver lining for doctors

Doctors say that this is a silver lining in the treatment of coronavirus Covid-19. Therefore, the government should make such a system that it is easily available in hospitals and hospitals across the country can use this technology in the treatment of patients. In this round of challenge, a new treatment option has been found.

Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja (Group Medical Director and Senior Director of Internal Medicine, Max Health Care) says that it also has to be understood that plasma therapy is not magic. The treatment protocol was also followed in this. This led to rapid improvement in the patient. However, there have been other reasons besides therapy in the hundred percent improvement.

Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja said that a donor can donate 400 ml of plasma. 200 ml of plasma is sufficient to treat a patient. In this way, two patients can be saved from one donor.