Release date: 2015-06-12
According to US media reports on June 9, Australian James Harrison is called "the man with the golden arm", and now 78 years old, he has contributed more than 1,000 times in the past 60 years. The rare antibodies in his blood have prevented more than 2 million newborns from damaging hemolytic diseases.
Help with 13L of life
This kind of charity of James begins with an operation when he was 14 years old. When he underwent a lobectomy, the doctor lost 13 liters of life-saving plasma to him. James recalled: "I was lying in the hospital for 3 months. The blood transfusion saved my life, so I vowed that when I was 18 years old, I would also be a voluntary blood donor."
Surprisingly, when James began to donate blood, the doctor unexpectedly discovered that James Harrison had a rare rhesus-negative (Rh)-negative blood type, and his "life-saving antibodies" in his blood could save the lives of countless children with hemolysis. .
Anti-D against neonatal hemolysis
Neonatal hemolytic disease refers to the blood type antibody that is not matched with the fetal blood group antigen in the mother due to the incompatibility of the mother and child. This antibody enters the fetus through the placenta and causes homologous immune hemolysis. The blood type of the common Rh blood type system and the ABO blood type system are different.
For example, a mother has a rhesus-negative (Rh)-negative blood type. If she has previously had a rhesus-positive (Rh)-positive blood type, she is allergic to the rhesus-factor (Rh)-positive blood type, then her next pregnancy, the child Or the rhesus factor (Rh) positive blood type, the mother's body will continue to produce antibodies, attacking the fetal blood cells, causing the fetus to suffer from fatal hemolytic disease.
More than 17% of women in Australia are at risk of developing hemolytic disease after birth. The doctor used the blood donated by James to make a vaccine called Anti-D, which is used to prevent pregnant women who are at high risk of hemolytic disease after birth. This disease can effectively prevent brain damage or even death.
Because James' blood was special and valuable, earlier Australian medical institutions invested $1 million in life insurance for him. Currently, every batch of Anti-D produced in Australia comes from James' blood.
More than 2 million newborns were rescued including his grandson
Harrison's blood has helped countless mothers to have a dream of having children, including Joey Barnes, a woman who works at the Red Cross Blood Bank in Sydney, Australia. Barnes was diagnosed with her blood type mismatch before receiving treatment, causing her fetus to develop hemolysis. When Barnes's body entered Harrison's donated blood, she finally gave birth to a healthy baby.
In fact, Harrison’s blood not only helped countless mothers to give birth to healthy children, but even his biological daughter, Tracy, was one of his “beneficiaries.†After Trat’s acceptance of his father’s blood transfusion, he was born. I have a healthy son.
Given that Harrison can donate blood on days, the Australian Red Cross Blood Authority hopes that other people with similar blood can inherit his good deeds. More than 50 people are known to have antibodies to hemolytic disease in Australia.
Source: Bio-Exploration
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