The Scientific Research Notes of S. Sunkavally, Printed Part, Page. 242.
Dates unclear, but certainly between 2006-2012.
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The multibillion-dollar industry propped up by struggling Americans: Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
The multibillion-dollar industry propped up by struggling Americans: Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
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The Scientific Research Notes Of S. Sunkavally (years: 2002-2011).
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OP: When your platelets are almost done with their work, you pick the scab off (cr 箫鶴權)
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Getting my infusion and I keep hearing the nurses on the phone with another patient… But the hospital is critically low on blood products today apparently, and the patient needs 2 units of platelets but they’ve only got one and they’re calling other locations, oof
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According to the website, today was going to be my 200th successful donation (out of 201 tries). According to their computers, this is only donation 199. Bummer. Next time.
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Watching cells at work and deciding the main red blood cell is a functional bisexual who appears disastrous while the white blood cell is a disastrous bisexual who appears funcitonal
In that way I am most like the bacterium, trying to kill them all
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Symptoms of Low Platelets in Dengue – Dengue’s Silent Threat
Dengue fever is an infectious disease that occurs in a tropical and sub-tropical climate through bitten-infected mosquitoes affecting millions of people. However, one of the potentially severe complications of this disease is that it lowers platelet concentration in the blood. The mechanisms of blood clotting and blood thinning are relevant to an individual’s health and thus the actions of dengue fever on the reduction of platelet levels should be discussed alongside the resultant effects.
Understanding Dengue Fever
What is Dengue Fever?
Dengue fever involves the dengue virus that is conveyed by infected Aedes mosquitoes through their sting. This disease affects mainly the tropical/subtropical regions and ranges from mild flu-like illness to severe flux like the deadly ones.
Causes and Transmission
It is a vector-borne disease mainly spread by the use of infected mosquito lice to humans. When a given mosquito has fed on an infected human, it gets the dengue virus and so it becomes a separator and infects other people once it feeds on them.
Symptoms of Dengue Fever
Some of the symptoms of dengue include the following high fever, which is usually prolonged, headache, pains behind the eyes, joint and muscle pain as well as rash or short mild bleeding. All these symptoms are normally manifested 4-10 days after the individual has been bitten by an infected tine vector.
As gathered from the above information, it is demonstrative that platelets are an essential commodity in the body.
What are Platelets?
Platelets are also known as thrombocytes and are one of the smallest kinds of blood cells that play a role in the coagulation of the blood. He or she can carry millions of such cells to the site of an injury, classify them and in this manner stem the blood vessel and stop the bleeding process.
Functions of Platelets
Formation of clots to avoid bleeding instances in the body.
Wound healing
This is because the flexibility is extended to the action of maintaining the structural integrity of blood vessels.
Normal Platelet Count
The normal number of platelets ranges from 150 000 to 450 000 platelets assuming it is per Microliter of Blood. Consequently, counts below this range are considered low and lead to various other health-related issues.
Dengue and Platelet Count
As has already been mentioned, platelets are one of the most sensitive elements affected by the dengue virus, which is why it is also crucial to examine how this illness influences the platelet count.
Of course, one knows that dengue fever leads to a decrease in the count of platelets in our blood which is technically known as thrombocytopenia. This is so because while the body employs its immune system to get rid of platelets, the marrow does not manufacture sufficient platelets.
Dengue transmission in this study is how the patient experiences a decrease in platelet count.
The dengue virus directly affects bone marrow, the source of plates, and overloads the production of plate-producing items. Additionally, the virus dysfunctions the normal and newly produced platelets and motivates the immune system to destroy these platelets hence their reduced production.
Here’s why the measuring of platelet count is important.
Dengue fever is observed to avoid more aspects and the most regularly checked by doctors is platelet count. It also has to be pointed out that when the count of these particular cells is low, the tendency of the blood to clot will also be slower and therefore conditions like excessive bleeding and many others are likely to occur.
Symptoms That May be Indications of Low Platelets in Dengue
- General Symptoms
- Fatigue and weakness
- Lightheadedness
- Pale skin
- Severe Symptoms
- Severe bleeding
- Organ damage
- Shock
- Early Warning Signs
Recognizing Early Symptoms
Sometimes the initial symptoms of a low platelet count are not very obvious they include skin bruises and sluggish clotting of blood especially when there is an injury. This is vital in that it will facilitate early medical intervention hence improving the prognosis of the disease.
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Platelet Stream
Our platelets – the blood component necessary for clotting to heal injury – are not cells but nucleus-free ‘fragments’ produced by very large cells of the bone marrow called megakaryocytes. This study reveals how the cell cycle and the structures involved in it, such as centrosomes, are controlled in megakaryocytes to enable their specialised function – insights for producing platelets for transfusion
Read the published research article here
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Just spent 128 minutes hooked to a machine
Watched Perfect days
It was beautiful
Yesterday I filmed the last few scenes remaining for the Pastor’s daughter
Tim had t-shirts made
I love the colour
I biked to his place in Mableton (well, the way there was from Cumberland)
Took the wrong turn and added 10 minutes to my trip
On the way back I really fucked up and added 40 minutes to an already long trip. Had to go through the silver comet in the dark without my head light
The fireflies were magical though
I chased a car that yelled at me and very politely told them off for doing it
The two women in the car acted like they hadn’t done it, but they were very polite, I think they were shocked/embarassed that I called them out on it
When the light turned green, they passed me again and yelled again, so no learning, no growth
I got a full body massage cause my shoulders were killing me
Today is San Juan, yesterday was la revetlla and I didn’t celebrate, I should have, at least, light up some sparklers
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Getting ready to binge some Netflix and save lives by donating platelets at the Red Cross.
#redcross, #plateletes, #givelife