Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes inflammation of your digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition.
Inflammation caused by Crohn's disease can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people. This inflammation often spreads into the deeper layers of the bowel.
Crohn's disease can be both painful and debilitating, and sometimes may lead to life-threatening complications.
While there's no known cure for Crohn's disease, therapies can greatly reduce its signs and symptoms and even bring about long-term remission and healing of inflammation. With treatment, many people with Crohn's disease are able to function well. If you have Crohn's disease, your blood donation could make a difference!
Donor requirements for participation:
- You must be clinically diagnosed with Crohn's Disease by a medical professional.
- Confirmation of the diagnosis and/or treatment must be verified with your physician.
- Be pre-screened to determine eligibility.
- You’re willing to donate white blood cells via the leukapheresis process.
- You must have a photo ID.
- You must be at least 18 years old.
- You must weigh at least 60kg.
White blood cells help defend the body against disease and infection. The process of leukapheresis removes white blood cells and returns other blood components back to the donor. A white blood cell donation can assist scientists in the effort to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases.
Your immune cell donation may assist researchers to advance medical treatments, lead to a scientific breakthrough or even develop cures for certain diseases or disorders. Immunologists worldwide have a need for healthy immune cells and cellular subsets, and this is where you come in!
Be sure to review eligibility details in order to be prepared to donate.
Living with a chronic illness can pose great challenges to your daily activity. Being proactive with treatment and donating to research can be a beneficial addition to your routine management. Discovering that you have a disease can be overwhelming with many unanswered questions and concerns. One that may come to mind is “how can I help someone else that may go the same process and struggles that I have experienced?” You can help by becoming a Specialty Antibody donor!
Participating in research allows scientists and clinicians find new treatments, tests and quicker diagnostic methods to improve patient outcomes and, hopefully, prevent the disease in the future.
Clinical Trials Laboratory Services (CTLS) supplies the scientific community with human biologicals collected at our own IRB-approved donor centre in compliance with HTA UK regulations. Products include blood and sera, as well as white blood cells, red blood cells and various other human samples.
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