Due to Corona outbreak, now plasma therapy has become general talk in every digital medium. In local words many people talk about it referring as ‘Yellow Blood’, it is a composition of regular red blood which circulates in our body. The therapy aims at separating the plasma from blood, which constitutes around 55% of blood and transfuse it to patient suffering from Corona infection. The individual from whom the blood is drawn is already recovered COVID-19 old patient. The study says recovered individuals has developed antibodies naturally responding to viral infection. This yellow colored fluid (plasma) contains rich antibodies capable of fighting against corona virus. Extracting the plasma from recovered individuals and substituting it to corona infected patient will improve the patient’s health and recovery time. Only 200ml of Plasma is sufficient to treat one patient. Care is taken before injecting it to patients, the drawn blood is tested for other diseases like hepatitis, HIV before using it for treatment. This is a promising approach, US, China and UK already doing clinical trials and now India is also planning to add it in treatments list against COVID-19.
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