Cord blood banking is a topic that is not well known and is not well understood by many of us. It is necessary to educate the families about the accurate and current information about the umbilical cord blood, its utility, its storage options, need for saving cord blood etc. It is high time to make people aware of cord blood medical researchs and its life saving properties.

Basically there are two ways of storing the baby’s umbilical cord blood so that it can be used by the same family who donated it called private cord blood banking (family cord blood services) and secondly, it could be used by any other unrelated person called public cord blood banking for various transplants.

The stem cells present in umbilical cord blood are very useful as they have a potential to save life by treating various diseases by generating new tissues.

Family cord blood services also called as “private cord blood banking” is nowadays accepted fairly well. Cord blood is obtained from the umbilical cord right after the child birth. Instead of throwing this as a medical waste you can get this blood stored and saved in family cord blood services for its probable use in the future.

Family cord blood service is the one where you can store the cord blood at a private facility. The companies catering family cord blood services are present all over the country but still if you are unable to find any location in your city, you can still get the baby’s umbilical cord blood harvested and send it to these companies using their collection kits.

Although family cord blood services are relatively expensive still you can get the long term immeasurable benefits at some point of time in their life. Apart from these companies there are also many hospitals and facilities that caters family cord blood services.

Storing baby’s umbilical cord blood is once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save it for it may be required by the child in the future in case he develops any blood disorder, or cancer treatment through bone marrow transplant or any disease that demands treatment through stem cells. The best of saving the baby’s cord blood in family cord blood service is that there is no chance of mismatch in the genes of the blood that is DNA is suitable for use.

The only disadvantage of opting this option is that the cord blood of the baby may also have contaminated and infectious genes of the same disease which the child suffers from. Well, keeping the safer side, there is no harm in saving this blood as the benefits wins over the demerits.

There are various websites that guide parents that have detailed information regarding umbilical cord blood and its banking. They provide lists of all private cord blood banks with their accreditations and prices and their comparisons as well as the kind of services they offer. Also you can get the list of diseases which are treated with the use of cord blood stem cells alongwith the transplant procedures and types.

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