You Can Not Neglect the Side Effects of Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy as a new achievement in medicine area has brought infinite hope to patients with Kidney Failure. However, at the same time, it also carries potential side effects and complications. Depending on the type of Immunotherapy, the risk of developing certain complications either increases or decreases. Therefore, it is very important for the patients to choose the type of Immunotherapy performed on them.

The commonly applied bone narrow Immunotherapy in treating various diseases have presented many side effects.

Infection: Immunotherapy can influence the patients’ immune system ability and reduce the number of white blood cells in body. Therefore, the patients will become more susceptible to infection.

Anemia: After Immunotherapy, the patients may experience red blood cells decreasing and subsequent hemoglobin level reduces, which can lead to anemia. Due to anemia, the patients may have fatigue, pale face and so on.

Poor appetite: As for nausea, diarrhea and ulcer, the patients may have poor appetite flowing Immunotherapy. In this case, the patients should adjust their diet to maintain a healthy weight, which is benefit the production of new cells.

However, in our hospital, umbilical cord blood Immunotherapy are applied to treat Kidney Failure. Previously, the cord is discarded after the infant is borne. However, the recent years’ researches prove the cord blood is abundant of Immunotherapy and they may be the most primitive Immunotherapy in human. As the Immunotherapy in cord blood still have not developed immunity, the Immunotherapy will not cause rejection reaction after infused into recipient’s body. Moreover, the placenta is a natural barrier so the Immunotherapy are not polluted by the foreign virus or bacteria at all, which guarantee the purity of the Immunotherapy.

Therefore, the above characteristics of umbilical cord blood Immunotherapy reduce the risk of developing complications. In clinic, only in some cases, the patients may have high fever following Immunotherapy. However, after a period, their temperature will lower and they will recover their normal life.


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