Donating bone marrow will not affect people's health. Many people think that donating bone marrow is extracting spinal cord, which is a complete misunderstanding. Bone marrow transplantation needs red bone marrow-hematopoietic stem cells in human body. An adult's hematopoietic stem cells are 3 kg, and a donor can save a leukemia patient by lifting less than 10 g of bone marrow stem cells, so his immune ability and hematopoietic ability will not be weakened. Bone marrow is a kind of tissue with strong viability. For healthy donors, it takes about 10 days to replenish donated stem cells.
Become a volunteer donor
If you are between 18-55 years old and in good health, you can call the hotline of China Bone Marrow Bank in bone marrow donor: (Beijing) 0 10-65 126600, (Shanghai) 021-62478/kloc-0. Netizens can find relevant information through Baidu search "China Bone Marrow Bank".
Steps to donate bone marrow
1) After registration, the bone marrow bank or the Red Cross will arrange for you to have a 5ml blood test, and the HLA typing results will be stored in the China hematopoietic stem cell donor database for patients to find a match. 2) The initial matching of donors and recipients is the same. The staff of the bone marrow bank will introduce the donation process to you in detail. Please accept a general examination.
Extract bone marrow
There are two ways to extract hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow: first, doctors puncture the donor's ilium to collect hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow, and some pain occurs within one or two days after operation, which can be completely recovered within one week. Secondly, a large number of hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow and other parts are effectively mobilized and released into peripheral blood by scientific methods, collected from veins of donors' arms, separated by machines, and the remaining blood is returned to donors.