The terrible figure of around 25 lac detected cases and over 165,000 deaths all over the world due to coronavirus infections, the world seems to have become very helpless in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Every effort is being made by the Scientists to find out the vaccines, drugs and other ways, that could be used as treatment against coronavirus. In such disgusting circumstances a ray of hope in the shape of Plasma Therapy has arisen. The top medical research body of India, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), on April 16 approved a clinical trial for plasma treatment of those seriously ill with Covid-19.
Plasma therapy:
Plasma therapy is a treatment for infections by Infusion of blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that might help beat the infection. In this therapy, the antibodies found in the blood of people who have recovered from an infection (or convalesced), are used to treat patients who are infected.
Working of Plasma therapy
In this therapy, blood is drawn from a person who has recovered from the disease and the serum is separated and screened for virus-neutralising antibodies. When attacked by a pathogen, our immune systems produce antibodies and in this therapy these antibodies from recovered patients are used to treat other sick people.
According to Medical specialists by this therapy immunity develops.
Although, it is not sure that it will definitely work, but several medically advanced countries like the US, China, and more recently India are using it as a stopgap measure. Convalescent plasma is an experimental procedure for Covid-19 patients.
In India, Kerala is the first state to have been given the nod to try this out, as a task force was already in place.
Fingers crossed, we hope that plasma enrichment technique will become a success story to treat severely-ill Covid-19 patients.
Sanjeev Kumar Khanna
Note: The author of this blog does not have any medical background. The contents of the article have been collected from different reliable sources,
