The World Bone Marrow Donation Association, the American Pediatric Association and the European Union do not encourage ordinary people to preserve umbilical cord blood. We recommend you to donate it.
After the baby cuts the umbilical cord, part of the blood remaining in the umbilical cord is umbilical cord blood.
Some diseases require stem cell transplantation, and umbilical cord blood contains hematopoietic stem cells. In the future, if unfortunately suffering from some blood diseases, metabolic diseases, immune diseases, etc., umbilical cord blood may be used. However, the probability that stem cells in umbilical cord blood can be used to treat diseases does not exceed 1/2700.
Moreover, if the disease is caused by genetic abnormalities, it means that there is a problem with its own stem cells and umbilical cord blood is useless. Finally, the number of stem cells in umbilical cord blood is relatively small, and in some cases it is not enough to cure the disease.
Moreover, considering the high price of preserving autologous umbilical cord blood, it is really not as simple as [spending money to buy peace of mind]. Donating umbilical cord blood to the public cord blood bank will not cause any loss, and the more substantial the public cord blood bank is, the easier it will be to solve the matching problem, which can bring hope to more people’s lives.