Scientists from Switzerland have been able to conduct a real vampire research. 16 volunteers drank 300 ml of his own blood in order to help in the development of new methods of diagnostics of inflammatory diseases of the intestine.
In Zurich over the study, which jokingly called a vampire, because the participants had to drink blood. However, not innocent victims, and their own. They drank 300 ml of blood, which is about 10 doses, in order to help in the development of methods of diagnostics of inflammatory bowel diseases. Such a strange method of diagnosis came to scientists after they noticed that the drink increases the amount of a protein in the stool.
Swiss scientists believe that the protein calprotectin is possible to guess the presence of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract of the patient. These bleeding are often observed in victims of inflammatory bowel disease – the General term is called a variety of disorders of the body, which affect millions of people on our planet. Usually for the diagnosis of these patients use the endoscopes, but they are very uncomfortable for most patients. Magicforum recalls that the most common inflamed bowel diseases are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
And now researchers from Triemli Hospital found that there is a more gentle and accurate method of diagnosis for internal bleeding, for which it is not necessary to push into the human body a flexible tube with a camera. Doctors just need to take a stool sample. In the study, volunteers ate from 100 to 300 ml of their blood either through a special tube in your nose, or just drinking blood. Before the experiment they assessed the level of calprotectin in the Studio, and then these analyses were carried out every day for two weeks in a row. They proved to be very reliable diagnostic tool bleeding. (READ MORE)