What's your country and your blood type?

josejad

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Here a B+ from Spain.
I usually donate plasma because I was told my blood type was common here in Spain. But seeing the graphic, it seems that there's a lot of people is 0+, so better for the + people than mine (B+ 8%; 0+ 35%)
 

AnandGupta

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I have worked at a Blood Bank. We used to mark all collected bloods as A, B and AB both + and -, but none as O+/-
I was told that O (Universal) is not applicable now. This is more than 25 years before. So I am surprised to see O group in India too.

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Anand
 

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josejad

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AnandGupta said:
I was told that O (Universal) is not applicable now
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... and do you Know why?

I read about some unusual blood type and people who donate just for themself because there was just few people with their type.
 

Daestrum

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O for me in the UK.
 

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rabbitBUSH said:
Didn't That mean that if the didnt have A B etc available they could administer O as a short term solution?
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Yes. In fact lots of movies, 50 years ago, used to show that the hero, who happens to be O group, given his blood to save others.

But at the blood bank, which happened to be a hospital of blood related disease, I was taught that giving different blood group to a patient results in other blood related complications. So all bloods were marked A,B,AB (+-) and same given if available.

I do not know what is the criteria or medical science behind it now. We just have to follow what the doctor prescribes.

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Anand
 

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AnandGupta said:
We just have to follow what the doctor prescribes.
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As long as the doctor's maths is sound or we'll be praying ..... A + B = O my G.
 

josejad

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Alexander Stolte said:
But I do it anyway.
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That's great. Here in Spain, when you go to donate, you can make medulla's donor too. It's very easy, just one more little amount of blood and you're entered in a world-wide data base. This is very important because there's very few compatibility.
 

josejad

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It depends if he wants an infusion:

 
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