Thread: What blood type are you?

As said elsewhere I am O- have told the missues a few times, doubt it has sunk in.

The real danger for us O- is that in asia as the negative blood type is so rare, they often use O+ as the routine emergency blood type -which would f*ck us O- immediately.

A universal donor. Send some of your blood to his sick mate.

Originally Posted by hazz

Apparently if you are RH- a toxoplasmosis infection will make you more accident prone. which probably explains the lack of rh- in thailand. all that raw pork sausage combined with its mai ben rai attitude to safety; a recipe for extinction

Huh? Yea taketh the pish, surely?

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

A universal donor. Send some of your blood to his sick mate.

No can do. As was said on another thread - I tried to go donate for a mate of AOs in bangkok a while ago. I have too high a hemoglobin level (outside the normal range).

Mine is O+

dont want to mess the thread

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

Originally Posted by hazz

Apparently if you are RH- a toxoplasmosis infection will make you more accident prone. which probably explains the lack of rh- in thailand. all that raw pork sausage combined with its mai ben rai attitude to safety; a recipe for extinction

Huh? Yea taketh the pish, surely?

As a reason for the low rates of rh- in thailand it is a bit of a pisstake. As for the rest of it, the reaserch was reported in new scientist, which does have a better reputation than the daily mail.

I'm just wondering the link between accident prone, Rh+ and toxoplasmosis. New Scientist is certainly better than the Daily Mail, I feel bad just putting the two in the same sentence, but it is still a popular science magazine rather than academic journal. Was it the latest issue? (I'm interested to read more before commenting)

Originally Posted by Looper

Last Online: Today 09:10 AM Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 3,806 What blood type are you? I am O- so I can give to anyone but receive only from O-.

I'm O- , just for reference

The medicine, called tranexamic acid, is sold over the counter under the brand names Cyklo-F and Femstrual to help women affected by heavy periods.

But research has shown injections of the drug can also reduce bleeding and the need for blood transfusions during surgery — and it can also help stop victims of traffic accidents and other serious injuries from bleeding to death, with no serious side-effects.

It’s even used by the British and U.S. military, but experts such as Ian Roberts, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, say our operating theatres and accident and emergency departments are lagging behind on this key development.

‘We have known this drug reduces bleeding in surgery for over a decade now,’ says Prof Roberts. ‘There is research which shows it reduces the need for blood transfusions by about a third in all types of operations. But it is still not being widely used.’

Tranexamic acid works by helping the blood to clot — it stops fibrinolysis, a natural process that breaks down blood clots in the body. When there is a risk of excessive bleeding, tranexamic acid can be a lifesaver.

An injectable form of the drug is made by Pfizer for use in some conditions associated with excessive bleeding such as prostate surgery and tooth extractions in people with haemophilia. But what baffles the experts is why it isn’t given routinely in surgery. In June 2010, a large international trial run in 40 countries including the UK and involving 20,000 patients found that the drug could be used successfully to save the lives of trauma victims — badly injured patients with serious bleeding, for example from road accidents or stabbings.

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