In the office, Wu Lixuan asked her medical student friend for some medical knowledge: "What is the placenta?"
The reason I asked this question is because Xie Wanying and Senior Yin were discussing the patient's condition just now and said, "I checked it at the time and it is very likely that her placenta is partially implanted in the uterus. It may be because there was no color Doppler ultrasound examination before delivery, and the doctor in the hospital did not pay attention to this when performing the cesarean section, which caused heavy bleeding when the placenta was removed."
When her childhood friend interrupted to ask, Xie Wanying answered, "The placenta is an organ that provides nutrition to the fetus. It is connected to the fetus by the umbilical cord and attached to the wall of the uterus. After a normal birth, the fetus is delivered and the placenta completes its historical mission, it will naturally fall off from the uterus along with the umbilical cord attached to the fetus. In medicine, it can also be called human waste. It's like the scab on the skin that falls off after a wound heals."
"Is that so?" Wu Lixuan was surprised after hearing her explanation. "I remember hearing people say that the placenta can be eaten. It's a tonic. It's called Ziheche in Chinese medicine."
"Placenta is a processed product. The placenta cannot be eaten directly. Of course, some people take it home and cook it for themselves, but doctors have no control over this." Xie Wanying clarified the folk rumors that clinicians often hear, "The hospital will ask the mother whether she wants to take her placenta back. If she doesn't, the hospital will treat it as medical waste and burn it after harmless treatment."
To put it bluntly, anyone who truly studies medicine and has some common sense would not eat this thing, not to mention the rumors that doctors take other people's placentas home to eat, which is simply nonsense. Medical students are most afraid of various bacterial and viral infectious diseases. Some diseases cannot be eliminated by high-temperature cooking. The structure inside the placenta itself has blood vessels and contains these things of the human body. It is dirty stuff. Who among medical students dares to eat it? Those who dare to eat it are definitely not real medical technology experts.
I have always said that in the medical community, there are people with different levels of knowledge. Doctors suffer because those with low skills and no technical ethics drag them down.
Wu Lixuan recalled that she had been to a boss's house before, and someone came to sell her something called placenta preservation. She then asked her childhood friend what was going on.
"You are talking about cord blood preservation. There is also placenta preservation, but it is relatively rare." Xie Wanying knew that at this stage, the clinical application of placenta by medical technology has not reached the level of cord blood, and the use of cord blood in clinical practice is relatively mature. However, an indisputable fact is: "At this stage, public hospitals do not intervene in the preservation of cord blood and placenta. It is mainly done by external private companies. It is hard to say whether signing a contract can really guarantee that it will be intact for decades. Unlike reproductive technology, egg preservation is provided by public hospitals and is guaranteed."
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"So——" Wu Lixuan asked.
"So most of the clinical applications now are for immediate use. For example, a mother takes umbilical cord blood to save another child."
After listening to her childhood friend, Wu Lixuan realized that these promotional products were not cost-effective for ordinary people and were a waste of money. Of course, it didn't matter to the rich. In the future, regulations will be needed to ensure the development of the latest medical technology standards. In fact, the national umbilical cord blood bank will be built soon, and we only need to wait for another one or two years.
After a while, Yin Fengchun, who was sitting there without saying anything, received a dissatisfied glance from his girlfriend.
"You see, he's like this. I asked him a few questions, but he didn't answer me at all, and he still had the temper of a big doctor." Wu Lixuan complained that not every doctor is willing to share science like her childhood friend.
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