14 injections for others… her special vacation that impressed China

A hot topic is a Chinese woman who gained weight after taking a vacation for someone else on the raw noodle site and was stabbed 14 times with a needle.

Yu Yue Qin (23) living in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, recently increased his weight by 5 kg to donate hematopoietic stem cells and endured the pain of being stabbed 14 times, according to the Chinese media’s Pengpai newspaper on the 18th.

He graduated from university in Changsha, Hunan Province last year, and was working in Hangzhou. Recently he received a phone call from the Red Cross Society. It was a call to inform them that their hematopoietic stem cells were primarily suitable for donation to a patient with a blood disease.

At first, he thought it was a voice phishing phone, and he misunderstood and hung up. Then he remembered that he had joined the Chinese bone marrow bank two years ago.

According to the Pungpai newspaper, the probability of a hematopoietic stem cell hitting someone other than a family member is ‘1 in 1 million’.

Wii decided to donate hematopoietic stem cells because it could give someone hope. Hematopoietic stem cells are stem cells that produce all types of blood cells, and these cells grow to make red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, as well as various immune cells.

To donate, the patient and the donor must first match each other, the donor must strongly want, and the donor’s relatives must allow it.

Wi said to his mother, “Hematopoietic stem cell donation is safe and harmless to the donor,” and said, “It’s about saving people, so please do it.”

But before donating, there was a problem. He weighed 48 kg, which was less than the standard for donation. For donation, the stomach increased the amount of meals and gained 5 kilograms in 15 days. I also took a 15-day vacation to the company. Having just joined the company, it was burdensome to take a long vacation, but the company gave permission to Wii to donate hematopoietic stem cells for others.

Hematopoietic stem cell donation was never simple. The stomach had to be stabbed at least 14 times. Wii said, “When I collect hematopoietic stem cells, I have a sore back pain, but it’s okay.” In fact, during the donation process, limb pain such as low back pain may occur temporarily.

The blood collected from him was donated to a patient 700 kilometers from the hospital. It is a valuable donation made in an atmosphere that is reluctant to donate blood and hematopoietic stem cells due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

As of September last year, the number of hematopoietic stem cell donation cases in China exceeded 10,000. In China, the first donation began in 1996. In 2012, China joined the World Bone Marrow Bank and donated hematopoietic stem cells for 360 patients living in 28 countries.

Although the number of donation cases in China exceeded 10,000, the number of patients waiting for transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells in China is more than 1 million, the Pungpai newspaper reported.

Reporter Seo Yujin, Researcher Jang Minsoon [email protected]