About PLASMA THERAPY

 PLASMA THERAPY

DEFINITION: 

 Plasma therapy uses blood donated by recovered patients to introduce antibodies in those under treatment. Presently this therapy is introduced to treatment of COVID 19 patients.

    The convalescent plasma therapy aims at using antibodies from the blood of a patient recovered

(Covid-19 patient) from infectious disease to treat those critically affected by the same infectious agent.

    The therapy can also used to immunize those at a high risk of contracting the infection (virus/bacteria) such as health workers, families of patients and other high-risk contacts.

CONCEPT OF PLASMA THERAPY:

    This therapy's concept is simple and is based on the premise that the blood of a patient who has recovered from a specific infection (eg : Covid-19) contains antibodies with the specific ability of fighting the same organism.

The theory is that the recovered patient's antibodies, once ingested into somebody under treatment, will begin targeting and fighting the causative infectious agent in the second patient.

The convalescent plasma therapy is akin to passive immunization as, according to researchers, 

it is a preventive measure and not a treatment.

The concept is simple. 

The Patients who recover from an infectious disease often produce antibodies that can protect against later infections with the same microbe. 

This immunity can be transferred by giving serum to those at risk of infection."