Warnings over unlawful and risky cord blood collections

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 720AM GMT 09 March 2010

Parents are putting staff underneath vigour to pick up the blood, for concession or storage, or are utilizing kits to take it themselves.

The red red red red red red red red red red blood is abounding in branch cells and can be donated to provide hold up melancholy diseases such as leukaemia, or it can be stored in box the kid needs it for treating a condition of their own at a after date.

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Cord red red red red red red red red red red blood is additionally used in supposed saviour kin cases, where couples have flood diagnosis in sequence to have a kid that is a compare for an existent ill hermit or sister.

The pick up can usually be carried out by lerned staff underneath a looseness but relatives are nearing at sanatorium for the bieing born of their kid with kits, the Human Tissue Authority said.

In one box the relatives picked up connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood themselves in the sanatorium car park.

The HTA is propelling relatives deliberation connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood promissory note to plead the practicalities of pick up at an early theatre of pregnancy.

Where the sanatorium does not hold a looseness it might be probable to get a lerned dilettante to lift out the collection, they said.

Dr Shaun Griffin, Director of Communications at the HTA pronounced "Collection of connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood is the same as any alternative healing procession it needs to be carried out safely by lerned staff, since pick up is not but risk to the mom and baby.

"We dont wish relatives to leave it as well late to organize pick up because, if things go wrong, it can means trouble and the representation could be wasted. We know of incidents where relatives have brought connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood kits in to the smoothness room and put vigour on untrained healing professionals to pick up connective tissue blood.

"We are additionally wakeful of incidents where relatives have picked up the connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood themselves, or the pick up has taken place outside. In at slightest one case, connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood was picked up in the sanatorium car park. This risks the peculiarity of the representation as pciking up underneath these resources is expected to lead to contamination."

Last year there were 15,514 connective tissue red red red red red red red red red red blood collections compared to 14,335 in 2008.