Does bone marrow transplantation hurt

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My child has got leukemia for many years, and has been undergoing chemotherapy. Seeing that the child's body is getting worse and worse day by day, the pain of chemotherapy also makes the child miserable. Recently, it's not easy to be matched successfully, so we have to do bone marrow transplantation. So today, let's talk about the pain of bone marrow transplantation.

Does bone marrow transplantation hurt

First, bone marrow transplantation, or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, is a method of treating a series of diseases by intravenous infusion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to reconstruct the normal hematopoiesis and immune system of patients. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has replaced the term "bone marrow transplantation" to a certain extent, because hematopoietic stem cells not only come from bone marrow, but also can be mobilized into peripheral blood by hematopoietic factors, and can also come from umbilical cord blood. These hematopoietic stem cells can be used to reconstruct the hematopoietic and immune system.

Second: the role of bone marrow is hematopoietic function. After bone marrow transplantation, as long as the blood returned to normal, it would not hurt. It is the deep vein catheterization of the body: under local anesthesia, a soft catheter is inserted into the deep vein, and after that, blood samples can be drawn and drugs can be injected painlessly through the venous catheterization for a long time.

Third: in the early stage, because of the acute injury of high-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy, there will be nausea, vomiting, parotid swelling and pain and other symptoms. These symptoms will be alleviated or disappeared in the subsequent false healing period. However, with the delayed effect of pretreatment, white blood cells, hemoglobin and platelets will gradually decrease, and then enter the extreme period. At this time, there may be infection, fever, anemia, bleeding and other symptoms, requiring blood transfusion and intravenous infusion Nutrition and other support, about 2-3 weeks later, blood began to return to normal, when the patient fully recovered, at this time can be discharged.

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Bone marrow transplantation is not a minor operation. I'm afraid that the child will suffer too much. So I understand it in advance. The parents' heart is on the child. They are worried about whether it will be particularly painful. They hope that they can provide some help for the treatment of helpless children. It's not so painful.