What happens when you need Cord Blood?

You may already know about the process of cord blood banking and now you may be wondering what will happen if you need your cord blood that you banked. It’s not easy listening to a doctor diagnose your child with a disease. With most diseases it leaves the child feeling sick for so long that you cannot imagine the days when they weren’t sick. This is something that a parent constantly worries about in the back of their minds.

Once a child becomes ill with a disease you may wonder if the cord blood that you banked can help treat or cure the disease that you are dealing with right now. How do you find out any of this information? It’s not a long drawn out process in fact it is fairly easy to obtain your cord blood from the bank. The bank has a system that helps them locate your cord blood immediately because they never know if it will be a life or death situation. Additionally you are paying to have your cord blood banked so you deserve to have access to your cord blood as quickly and easily as possible.

In order to obtain your cord blood you need to let the physician treating your child know that you have banked cord blood during your delivery. This may put a complete and totally different outlook on everything. The physician can notify the blood bank to speed up the process. The cord blood is staffed 24 hours a day 7 days per week so they can respond to an urgent request for cord blood. Their easy filing system will direct them to your cord blood. Once your cord blood has been located, the cord blood bank will transport your cord blood to the facility directed by the physician during the initial request. Once the cord blood arrives, your physician will be able to have immediate access to the cord blood in order to start using the cord blood for treatment of the disease. But before the cord blood can be used the physician will have the cord blood tested for any bacterial contamination as well as any other malfunction that may become dangerous if used. This is not always the case but sometimes bacteria can contaminate the cord blood and make it non usable to the patient or the patients family.

Speak to your doctor about any concerns you may have and don’t hesitate to contact the cord blood bank with any concerns you may have.