Old blood transfusions can cause serious complications

(Phunutoday)-If the stored blood used on long to transmit to people the disease can cause serious side effects . Even, even when the blood stored in blood banks by the device or preservatives are used today can still do the blood gets old. The result is that the biological material to leak from the blood cells (erythrocytes) will cause significant changes to the attributes and functions of blood cells.

Blood stored too 14 days when transmitted to the human disease can cause serious complications. Thus, Indian scientists recently discovered a new effective methods in blood storage allows the blood can be stored for 42 days but still safe when used for patients-The Times of India said. Researchers Jay Mehrishi from Cambridge University, one of the authors of research works on said: "The tests conducted recently on 400,000 each patient underwent cardiac surgery have shown that, when they are stored on the 14-day blood have an increased risk of serious side effects must, in particular, can affect the lungs, depress the immune system. In patients with severe injury when blood stored more than 28 day can double the risk of deep vein thrombosis symptoms as well as deaths decline many organs in the body ". "Our study hopefully can highlight the differences between the old and new blood was used in transfusions as well as process methods that help hospitals monitor the quality of the blood quickly and cheaply". Mehrishi said: simple method is the need to monitor, regularly control the quality of the blood of central storage area to avoid damaging side effects for users. He also believed that this way can also be used to ensure clean blood supplies are high quality.