Balika vadhu spreading incorrect information on Leukemia and BMT

Really sad to see that BV creative team has done no research on Leukemia or bone marrow transplant. My child has battled leukemia since age 3 and for 7 year before undergoing a Bone marrow transplant . It pained me Immensely to see the makers of my favourite serial attempt to cover this in issue in an ill informed way. It is also irresponsible as it is spreading incorrect facts for the sake of sensationalizing the story.

I completely agree with you.

Originally posted by: BVWatchet

Really sad to see that BV creative team has done no research on Leukemia or bone marrow transplant. My child has battled leukemia since age 3 and for 7 year before undergoing a Bone marrow transplant . It pained me Immensely to see the makers of my favourite serial attempt to cover this in issue in an ill informed way. It is also irresponsible as it is spreading incorrect facts for the sake of sensationalizing the story.

Here are some facts:

1.Post diagnosis of leukemia chemo regime is started immediately ... There is no other meds that can be given,, intense chemo brings the disease under control and then maintenance chemo continues.

2.Depending on the treatment protocol the chemo continues for 2.5 yo 3 years ...

3. A patient may relapse while on treatment or even after the treatment is over - like my child relapsed 3 times.

4. It is true that bone marrow transplant is the only and last option. However, parents are not natural donors. Siblings most likely can be a match but in many cases are not. There are donor registries and the patient can get unrelated donor. My child had a 10/10 unrelated donor. The story made no attempt to look for unrelated donor as this suited the story line.

5. Marrow donation needs a preparatory chemo and radiation process ... The patient us kept in a completely sanitized isolated room in the hospital. While the transplant itself is like a blood transfusion ( and not an operation) the patient is not discharged before 60 - 100 days. During this period a lot of post transplant complications are associated and the risk of the patient' slide is very high. The doctor dies not know whether the transplant was effective until atleast 30 dats till the new donor marrow is engrafted or accepted by the body

Here in the serial the doctor knows Mannu is ok immediately after the transplant and us even ready to discharge him.

It hurts ...really hurts to see such half hearted and callous representation of an illness which ravages families ... Takes away lives of beautiful little children,...all for the sake of the storyline and TRP.

I cannot bear to watch it any more. BV team you have let down all families of leukemia survivors and patients.

Please be responsible and research your topics .

I am very sorry to hear about your son.Hope he is doing fine now.

@BVWatchet, as I read your post, I am choked with emotion.

As @Aparnauma mentioned, can't even say that I understand your hurt. I have seen the painful journey of one cancer patient in family but he was elderly and not suffering from Leukemia. So I didn't have much idea about the course of treatment and your post is an eye-opener for me.

Even I was very surprised when the doctor said Mannu is okay and even ready to discharge him.
Yes, creative liberty is to be accompanied with a responsibility to communicate right information.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

@ TM, sad to hear about your child, it is too painful to even think about it.

TM, extremely sorry to hear about your son our love, prayers and best wishes. Hope he is doing fine now. Really can't even say I understand how you feel. Aparna has said it all & explained in greater details from a Doctors perspective.

I couldn't agree more! I was so disappointed to see how the CVs handled this leukemia track, I found it ridiculous how they just jumped to the conclusion that only Ratan could save Mannu when that is not the case at all! They could have at least tried to show Jagya's family being tested as a possible match but instead right away the assumption was no one would match, not even Mannu's brother and I don't remember anything being mentioned about putting Mannu on a donor list. It was completely unrealistic and was insulting to families like yourself who are actually living through having a loved one suffering from leukemia. I'm so sorry to hear about your son

tm thanks for sharing facts about treatment of blood cancer.this is not first time bv cvs showing blooper in medical case there r other blooper shown by bv cvs like the doctor is allowing singh family to c abhimanyu when abhimanyu kept inside incubator .when baby kept in incubator it is not allow to c baby as it cause infection to baby .another blooper when jagya was doing operation of appendix .it is shown jagya was doing operation of appendix on left side .but appendix operation is done on right side of stomach

Originally posted by: 5cents

Well, I enjoy these shows because they are so darn unrealistic that I don't feel like I need my brain to process what I'm watching. Everything is so fairy tale like 😛. I love happy ending so I get that in my fictional diet but we all know reality is crueler than fiction. 😭

This track is in just for a "high-adrenaline" rush & equally Rotten drama of Rat pack. We all knew nothing is going to happen to Mannu & next after all the Rattiness 😡 Mannu will remain with Singhs so chill. But for makers a social message & 50+ episodes.

I had read somewhere that in TV most patients survive after C.P.R., in reality C.P.R. saves lives just five percent of the time. TV docs and nurses often don't perform the technique correctly.

But recently while flipping channels I heard some guy was being applauded as he saved his brother's life & he confessed that he learned to do C.P.R by watching it on ER & he did just like they did in the show.

I would say freaking awesome! So TV does have some responsibility to show some truth & right procedures there has to be some truth to what one is faking.

@ bold; that is the bottom line. Well said. Yes creative liberty is acceptable and there has to be some, After all we are here for entertainment and not watching a real life medical case, rape case, beggers case etc.