subject: Cord Blood Banks Could Save Your Child's Life [print this page] There are some horrific illness's around, no one could deny that watching your family member being sick is not a nice experience for anyone to go through. Once it is your youngster the feeling is even worse.
Medicine is continuously discovering new cures, there are a number of amazing hospitals that specialize in coming up with new treatment options for life threatening conditions. Some of the latest important developments have occurred in the field of stem cell research. As cord blood banks have become widespread and the prices to use them decline we will see an increase in people keeping the cord blood from their newborns umbilical cords for later use.
Keeping your infant child's blood may not be your first thought when you find out you are expecting but if you don't look into it previous to childbirth it will be too late. Stem cells are not an item you can presently order on eBay, stem cells are a direct product of creation and you will need to plan ahead if doctors are going to use them to possibly cure your children.
At this point in time stem cells are only used in the treatments for just a few diseases but as technology improves and increasingly more research is completed the the number of diseases they can help cure will increase.
Many people will notify you that it is useless to use a cord blood bank as the odds that you will ever need the blood are small. My answer to that is that I buy home insurance and hope to never have to use it, storing of stem cells is no different. You are getting insurance for your children's future health. Stem cells aren't used for helping your children's ear ache or the summer cold they get yearly, they are used for far more deadly diseases. While you may anticipate that you do not ever need to call the cord blood bank and tell them you need to use the stored blood, if you do have to you will be delighted you never listened to the naysayers.
