The plasma from the recovered person of covid-19 has IgG antibodies that would have built up against Coronavirus, and could help a another patient’s immune system build antibodies against the virus. At present, this is being done globally for severe patients, as the long-term impact and safety of the treatment is yet to be determined. How it actually works and is it safe for long term basis. Pls give your opinion.
Yes, convalescent plasma is safe and effective treatment option for those with severe COVID-19 disease.
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This therapy is about a hundred years old. It was studied by the Nobel prize Charles Richet. The therapy is effective and safe, but preliminary tests are needed.
Convalescent plasma therapy is an experimental treatment that some doctors are using for people with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
No drug has been proved to be safe and effective for treating COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hasn't approved any drugs specifically to treat people with COVID-19.
But, people who've recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies — proteins the body uses to fight off infections — to the disease in their blood. The blood from people who've recovered is called convalescent plasma. Plasma is the liquid portion of the blood.
Researchers hope that convalescent plasma can be given to people with severe COVID-19 to boost their ability to fight the virus. It also might help keep people who are moderately ill from becoming more ill and experiencing COVID-19 complications.
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Use of convalescent plasma is a temporary passive immunization for the patients. It just helps the patient's immune system to gain time to fight against infectious agents. As said, it is an old therapy, and as every applied therapy does, use of convalescent plasma also have risks for the patients such as risk of contamination of other infectious agents, seeding of cancer cells from donors, and also allergic reactions. For COVID-19 patients we still lack solid information about the duration of antibodies in circulation of a person in recovery period.
Yes, in some countries, therapy based on blood plasma taken from a person who has recovered from covid-19 disease or has had SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection asymptomatically is already in use. Some countries are developing a drug that will be developed in the fall of 2020, based on blood taken from a person who has been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and recovered. This medicine will be given as an injection into a muscle. Thanks to this drug, it will be possible to significantly increase the percentage of citizens in society who will thus obtain immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Yes, convalescent plasma is safe and effective treatment option for those with severe COVID-19 disease.
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