James Harrison, also known as the “Golden Sleeve Man”, lost his life. Harrison, on Monday, February 17, Australia, New South Wales’te a nursing home was announced at the age of 88 was announced.
James Harrison was a very important name for humanity. Harrison had a large chest surgery at the age of 14, and 13 liters of blood transplantation had to be performed to survive. During the three -month healing process, he decided to pay this debt and began to donate blood when he was 18 years old.
Although he did not like needles, he regularly donated blood in 1954. In a short period of time, Harrison’s blood was noticed that health professionals were a rare type of antibody, especially looking for.
The power of Harrison’s unique blood
When he had to stop blood donation in 2018, Jemma Falkenmire of the Australian Red Cross Blood Donation Service, in an interview with CNN, said, “Every blood bag is very valuable, but James’s blood is particularly unusual. His blood is used to make a life -saving drug given to the mothers of unborn infants. ”
Blood groups are mainly classified as A, B, EU and 0 and are separated as RH positive or negative, as they have RHD antigen. Your blood group usually does not cause a problem, but the fact that the mother and the fetus have different Rh factors during pregnancy may be an important problem. The fact that the fetus is Rh positive and the Rh negative of the mother can lead to a problem known as hemolytic newborn disease (HDN).
The effect of HDN and Harrison’s blood
In the 1950s, scientists found the cause of HDN and developed a treatment using the antibody that caused the disease in the 1960s. Harrison’s body produced large quantities from this anti-D antibody. Falkenmire said in 2018 to Sydney Morning Herald, “Very few people have such antibody in such high density. He produces the body too much from it and when he donates, he produces the body even more. ”
When Harrison heard that his blood could cure infants with HDN risk, he began to donate as often as possible. Until the age of 81, he donated blood every two weeks and gave blood 173 times in this process. According to estimates, Harrison’s blood donations contributed to the health of 2.4 million babies.
