PRP Health & safety information
While this treatment is autologus - uses your own blood - and thus minimises the possibility of complication related to the product used (we cannot be allergic to our own blood), there is a lot of different aspects involved in the process that you should be aware of.
The most important is the training of the person doing the treatment - they should be trained in phlebotomy - so they can take a sample of your blood, as well as the PRP treatment itself - so they know exactly how to do the treatment.
The second very important aspect is the equipment used, and more specifically the tube for blood collection.
As the proper tubes are very expensive it is a common practice to use the simple tubes for laboratory blood samples - as seen in hospitals or other points of blood collection. Theese tubes, even though sterilised, are not a medical device grade!! Which means that the blood collected can be stored for laboratory use but it cannot be reinjected to the human body.
That is why the proper tubes for PRP treatments look similar but are prepared differently and have a medical device grade IIa or IIb.
How to distinguish the tubes?:
Simple blood collection tubes:
- comes in packs of 100 or more - are not packed separately
​ - there is no CE symbol with a number on them
some examples of how they look like:​
The proper PRP tubes come packed separately and very often - if supplied by a professional company - there is a special box. The systems might differ but the tubes are ALWAYS hermetically packed and have a CE mark with number after it as well as certificate of medical grade. Some examples are shown below:
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