Question 1

is chicken bone marrow good for health ?

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Yes, esp. if organic: Not only is chicken marrow healthy, but so is marrow from other bones like fish & beef, usually consumed as bone broth soups. These can improve bone & joint health, immune function etc. See www.Townsendletter.Com/febmarch2005/broth0205.Htm 
however, i strongly advise using bones from organic chicken to avoid hormones, antibiotics, pesticide residues & animals fed genetically modified foods.

Question 2

any benefit from eating bone marrow?

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No: No, no health benefit. But, if prepared well as in osso bucco, it can be delicious when spread on little toasts.

Question 3

do you recommend eating/drinking before bone marrow biopsy?

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Does not matter: If bone marrow biopsy is the only test you will have, eating food will not affect the results. However, your doctor may plan to do other blood tests as well, therefore it would be prudent to check with her/him.

Question 4

how n why is it that m spike is below 1 but plasma cells are 15 percent in the bone marrow pls kindly explain?

Accepted Answer

Immunohistology: Normal plasma cells in your bone marrow would not cause a high M spike. Rarely, abnormal plasma cells do not cause an M-spike.

Causes of reactive bone marrow plasmacytosis include infection, malignancy, inflammation, Castleman’s disease, anemia, diabetes mellitus, cirrhosis. In most cases the plasma cell infiltrate is less than 20%, The cytoplasmic light chain ratio differentiates MUGUS

Question 5

what tests should be done frm bone marrow biopsy n aspiration slides?

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Depends on purpose: How many tests can be done from blood? Millions. How many tests can be done from a bone marrow biopsy (BMB) specimen? Many? What tests should be done? It depends on 1) purpose for performing the BMB and 2) the findings the pathologist sees on morphologic examination of the aspirate &amp; biopsy. Tests may include stains for iron or congo red (amyloidosis) as well as flow cytometry, cytogenetics, FISH.

Question 6

how does one differentiate between infection n malignancy in the bone marrow plasma cell percentage?

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Monoclonal or not: Malignant plasma cells are monoclonal in that they are copies of each other and produce the same antibody. This antibody can be identified in urine or blood tests in malignancy.

Increased plasma cells due to infection are polyclonal (not copies of each other) and produce non-identical antibodies.

Question 7

what does bone marrow consists mostly of?

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Blood cells and fat: Bone marrow is a mixture of developing and mature blood cells and fat.  The precursors of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets start in the bone marrow and mature into their final forms before entering the circulatory system.

Question 8

what are the symptoms of 'bone marrow suppression'?

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Many: Bone marrow makes red cells that carry oxygen , white cells that protect you from infection, and platelets that stop you from bleeding. If bone marrow suppressed you will have anaemia-low red cells cause fatigue, infections since low white cells, and bleeding caused by low platelets.  It can range from no symptoms-mild to severe.  All depends on severity of the suppression.

Question 9

how much pain is expected from giving bone marrow to someone that needs it?

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It is not too bad: There are 2 different ways bone marrow(stem cells) can be given to someone. One is quite simple and has literally no pain(it is called peripheral stem cell collection by apheresis). The other, more commonly used in the past, is true bone marrow donation which requires general anesthesia in order to draw the bone marrow from the hip bones and does cause more discomfort than the blood stem cell coll.

Question 10

is there a relation between polyclonal spike n increased plasma cells in the bone marrow pls answer?

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Short answer is yes: Reactive, meaning not malignant, causes of plama cell increase in bone marrow is not uncommon.  In the setting of reactive processes such as inflammation, infection, cirrhosis, immune mediated anemias one can see an associated polyclonal increase in globulins (although I would not call that a spike).

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