At the time, I was an ICU pediatric nurse and decided that saving my daughters stem cells my come into play someday. HAs anyone heard of using their own child's stem cells to reverse the Lyme in the adult?
Posted by LymeCFIDSMCS (Member # 13573) on :
I assume you're talking about the umbilical cord blood and/or the placenta. Unfortunately, neither have a very high number of stem cells in them, not enough to repair something like Lyme. They would likely be more helpful for your daughter, rather than you, in the case that she needs them while still young.
One umbilical cord has less than a million stem cells in it. Generally, it takes millions of stem cells to make a difference -- some believe 20 million and up though some have results with just 1-2 million.
In this country, it's still illegal to proliferate stem cells from an umbilical cord to make more cells except in controlled research, but in other countries this is common.
I'm not sure if you could go out of country and then use the stem cells from your daughter. You would also have to be an HLA type match with your daughter's cord blood.
It is still sensible to save the stem cells, as they might be somewhat helpful to you or helpful to your daughter (or future children).
Posted by LymeCFIDSMCS (Member # 13573) on :
I assume you're talking about the umbilical cord blood and/or the placenta. Unfortunately, neither have a very high number of stem cells in them, not enough to repair something like Lyme. They would likely be more helpful for your daughter, rather than you, in the case that she needs them while still young.
One umbilical cord has less than a million stem cells in it. Generally, it takes millions of stem cells to make a difference -- some believe 20 million and up though some have results with just 1-2 million.
In this country, it's still illegal to proliferate stem cells from an umbilical cord to make more cells except in controlled research, but in other countries this is common.
I'm not sure if you could go out of country and then use the stem cells from your daughter. You would also have to be an HLA type match with your daughter's cord blood.
It is still sensible to save the stem cells, as they might be somewhat helpful to you or helpful to your daughter (or future children).
Posted by f13girl (Member # 23844) on :
go to cfs phoenix rising- general treatment /stem cell thread on forum--
famous CFS doc-cheney is having some success with patients has has taken to costa rica/panama for stem cell treatment using donor cord blood- Still very early on the wild west of stem cells-but he his having some good results and supposedly 2 remissions in 2 younger patients.
Posted by LymeCFIDSMCS (Member # 13573) on :
I know that thread too (on Phoenix Rising) but it should be noted that Dr. Cheney's patients are getting umbilical cord stem cells that have been proliferated -- in other words, multiplied into many more cells -- we're talking tens of millions.
His patients have had the most success with the umbilical cord cells though -- not as much with fat-derived stem cells.