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In the past, during labour the baby’s umbilical cord will usually be discarded after being cut.  The scenario is different today because the blood in the umbilical cord was found to be very useful in treating serious diseases.  Today, cord blood becomes very valuable.  The stem cells contained in it are able to cure more than seventy different diseases with huge success.  The common diseases treatable with stem cells are leukaemia and other health conditions related to blood disorders.

Leukaemia needs to be treated with chemotherapy because this method is able to destroy the cancer cells.  However, during the treatment the body’s natural stem cells tend to be destroyed as well.  This leaves the patient in a fragile condition because even a slight infection can lead to fatality.  This is when the use of cord blood becomes very important.  It has the potential to restore a patient’s health back to the normal condition.  Additionally, unlike a bone marrow transplant, the blood cord transplant is a non-invasive procedure.  Furthermore, it is easy to find a donor because stem cells from umbilical cord are quite universal in nature thus there is no need to find a specific match.

Life is more valuable than anything else in this world.  The good thing is you can now protect your loved ones from dying out of fatal diseases with the help of stem cells collected from the umbilical cord.