Organ transplant has long ceased to be something sensational. But even in the scientific world, transplantation takes a special place. Materialistic scientists deny mysticism, but admit that some aspects of donation remain completely mysterious to them. And what can happen to a person with a foreign organ in the body - ultimately no one knows
Someone else's blood
Does a person change after organ transplant? For a long time it was believed that transplantation does not have "mystical" side effects and does not affect the clinical picture of the state of the body. But not so long ago in Australia, scientists had to deal with the obvious, the incredible. A 15-year-old Sydney resident had liver failure and a donor organ transplant. Some time after the transplant, the Australian woman fell ill. In her position, experts believed, the disease threatened with inevitable death. But when the girl was taken to the clinic, and they took her blood for analysis, the hepatologists did not believe their own eyes. It turned out that the young Australian woman's blood group changed, which is actually given to a person once and for all from the moment of birth!
Repeated tests confirmed that the ruby fluid in the girl's body became exactly the same as that of her donor. When the patient of the clinic recovered, a thorough examination showed that she was completely healthy. So much so that she no longer needs to take immunosuppressants - drugs that prevent organ donor rejection.
This case is unprecedented. After its publication, scientists for the first time openly stated that as a result of organ transplantation, a person can become different. The truth is, they could not explain what happened to the girl from Australia. Its phenomenon is now being scrupulously researched.
Split personality
For more than thirty years, American Debbie W. has been a convinced teetotaler and, in general, an ardent advocate of a healthy lifestyle. But the first thing she wanted after a heart transplant was beer. And when she was allowed to get behind the wheel, she sat down and drove to a fast food diner, where she ate to a dump of chicken in batter.
In the United States, they do not hide from whom the donor organ is taken for transplant. And Debbie was able to find out that in her body the heart of an 18-year-old Negro boy Howie, who crashed on a motorcycle, was beating. That in the pocket of his jacket was found a packet of his favorite snack - chicken fried in batter. He also loved beer …
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There are other interesting facts in research practice. Here are just a few. The 47-year-old worker, who was not interested in art, after being transplanted the liver of a young violinist, amazed those around him with a sudden outburst of love for classical music.
A student who had a drowned man's heart transplanted suddenly began to experience an irrational fear of bodies of water.
After a heart transplant, a young woman began to suffer from terrible back pain. Subsequently, it turned out that at one time her donor's back was injured.
There is an example when, after an operation, a Massachusetts resident, who was afraid of heights, became a climber. A lawyer from Milwauk, who hated sweets, fell in love with chocolate bars, and a seven-year-old girl, after a heart transplant taken from a murdered child, began to see nightmares at night in which she became a victim of a killer …
There are not so few unique stories. Their researchers, in turn, argue that there could be much more. It's just that many patients are embarrassed to talk about strange experiences, fearing that they will be mistaken for crazy.
What versions will there be?
A person who has undergone a vital organ transplant may acquire donor traits. This conclusion was made by renowned scientist Gary Schwartz, professor of psychology and medicine at the University of Arizona. In his opinion, internal organs generate electromagnetic energy during life. Transplanted into a new organism, they begin to influence nerve cells in their own way - some cells quench, others spur, others wake up from a long hibernation. As a result, psychosomatic reflexes change - a person develops new habits and even abilities. The most powerful generator, according to Professor Schwartz, is the heart - after its transplant, the changes occurring in a person can be most noticeable. However, even when blood is transfused, some patients begin to experience strange sensations. From a donor, for exampleactivity, drowsiness, mischief are transmitted. True, this effect is temporary - in the future, a person already has his own hematopoietic organ.
The German neurologist Friedrich Strian claims that living tissues have cellular memory. And any internal organ is a kind of storage of information coming from the impulses of the brain. After the transplant, this information is read - the person begins to feel other people's thoughts, feelings, fears. Phantom pains are in the same row.
There is also a less exotic hypothesis. An organ transplant is a very serious operation that involves anesthesia. After it, the patient must take medications for the rest of his life that suppress the rejection of donor organs, as well as other potent drugs. All of these drugs can have side effects that are still rather poorly understood. Among these side effects are unusual changes in a person's nature.