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Blind Child Can Now See Thanks To Adult Stem Cell Treatment!

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There seems to be a never ending supply of  stories coming out about children who can't see due to Optic Nerve Hypoplasia and then off they go to China where they receive repair stem cell treatment . Optic Nerve Hypoplasia is when the optic nerve doesn't form correctly leaving a child blind. Until repair (adult) stem cell therapy came along, these blind children had no hope to ever see, there was no cure for this disorder.

This story reports that 17 blind children have gone to China to receive this repair stem cell therapy and that almost all of them have seen improvement in their sight. That is dynamite! Read about Cody Bend and his very happy parents:

"The first reaction we really noticed from Cody was toward the beginning of the treatments," his mother said. "I woke up when the sun was rising, and looked over at Cody's bed. He was sitting up Indian-style, wide-eyed, taking everything in. He was just looking all around!"

Cody and his family returned home June 21. Today, he is able to see well enough to pick out all his colors and play peek-a-boo.

"One of the first things we noticed was that his eyes don't shake anymore, which was a side effect of (ONH)," Jessie Fend said. "Then we noticed he was bringing everything within 2 inches of his face and looking at it!"

That's when they began teaching Cody the colors of a toy ring.

"We would tell him the color and then we would mix it with all the other colored rings, and he was able to find the color we taught him," Jessie Fend said. "We progressed from there and now he knows and is able to locate all his colors.

"He's also able to play peek-a-boo with us. I tell him to look at Mommy, and he gets within a few inches of my face, and when our eyes meet, he smiles."

When the Fends returned home, they met with the chief of ophthalmology at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. Jessie Fend said the doctor was amazed and excited about Cody's improvements.

"We are having a new MRI done, and all new tests to see exactly where his sight is on the charts. But just from the doctor seeing us in his office, he already mentioned about possibly getting Cody fitted for glasses, which were never even an option before," Fend said.

"They say what sight the stem cells give Cody he won't lose because the stem cells attach themselves to his optic nerve and regenerate the nerve to grow," Jessie Fend said. "The improvement in sight is the new part of the optic nerve regenerating and making the connection to bridge the nerve between his eyes to his brain."

With the improvements they are seeing in Cody, the Fends are considering another round of treatments.

"Each round of stem cell treatments builds on the next, so pretty much the more treatments he receives, the better his vision gets," Fend said. "We are talking about going back -- we'd almost be crazy not to, because right now it's the best thing going in the entire world."

I couldn't have said it better than Mrs. Fend-  right now it is definitely the best thing going in the entire world. For more information about this repair stem cell treatment in China and other repair stem cell therapies, you are welcome to call me at 1-214-556-6377 or email me at don@repairstemcells.org  - DM

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Posted: 8/22/2008 1:26:56 AM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments
Filed under: Brain, Optic, Optic Nerve, Optic Nerve Hypoplasia, Research, Stem Cells, Therapy, Treatment


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