Stem Cell Therapy in China for Childhood Blindness

Posted 2 May, 2008 in ADULT STEM CELL VICTORIES! |

WE HAVE BLOGGED ON STEM CELL THERAPY IN CHINA BEFORE.  AMONG MANY DIFFERENT DISEASES THEY TREAT WITH CORD BLOOD STEM CELLS, THEY SEEM TO HAVE HAD SOME SUCCESS WITH OPTIC NERVE HYPOPLASIA (ONH).  THIS DISEASE OCCURS IN CHILDREN WHEN THE OPTIC NERVE FAILS TO DEVELOP LEAVING THE CHILD BLIND FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.  THERE IS NO CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT FOR THIS DISEASE AND NO CURE….AT LEAST THERE WASN’T UNTIL STEM CELL THERAPY CAME ALONG RECENTLY:

Last year, Barlett thinks she found the closest thing to a cure in China, where doctors are using stem cells to try to develop new optic nerves. It’s a procedure that’s never even been clinically tested in the United States because of the government’s severe restrictions on stem cell research.

Those transplants are simple infusions of newborn umbilical cord cells, pumped through an IV or an epidural-like procedure.

Barlett and Rylea spent a month in China, trying not to get their hopes up too high since Rylea had never even been sensitive to light.

“A week after her first transplant, she responded to a pin light by turning away each time,” she said.

It was a first and, in the nine months since those stem cell transplants, Barlett says Rylea’s progress has been miraculous.

For Rylea, mom says the improvement has been so significant that she’s planning another trip to China this summer. It’s a labor of love for her to see just how much Rylea can really see.

“For now, where we are, it’s an absolute blessing. It’s one of those things where we hope for the absolute best but take whatever you’re given,” said Barlett.

UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELLS (ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY) IS GIVING RYLEA A CHANCE IN LIFE WHERE PREVIOUSLY THERE WAS NO CHANCE.  AGAIN I ASK, WHY DO THEY HAVE TO GO TO CHINA FOR THIS STEM CELL TREATMENT?

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