Hubby can't give blood!!!
Jan 9th 2006, 11:48 am
#31
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
Originally Posted by 232Bar
National Blood Service figures by ppulation/blood type shows type B present in only 10% of the population and of that RhBneg is only 2% - Not sure about you, but being only 1 of 2% of the population makes me feel pretty rare 
Only one more rare is ABneg at 1% and AB+ is close at 3%
Only one more rare is ABneg at 1% and AB+ is close at 3%
well I'm glad someone said that, because I also thought it was supposed to be rare. I'm with you 232.....RhBneg
Jan 9th 2006, 11:51 am
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
All us B negs should stick together lol - you never know when we might need each other
Jan 9th 2006, 11:58 am
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
Originally Posted by banjo
well I'm glad someone said that, because I also thought it was supposed to be rare. I'm with you 232.....RhBneg
Mom tried to give blood in the UK once and they did the test to see if she was anaemic and sent her straight to the hospital as apparently they were amazed that she could even walk 
.I will have to build up a new support network now that we are in OZ as I am sure that knowing people in the Uk with the same blood group is pretty useless.
I took the forms to put us all on the organ donor register here as we were on it in the UK and they weren't sure whether they allowed people from the UK on that here. I have filled the forms in anyway so we shall see.
Nicky
Jan 9th 2006, 1:14 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
Originally Posted by skywalker
A friend of mine has 0 negative, is it rare, too? I think so...
Jan 9th 2006, 2:09 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
Originally Posted by annqldau
Hubby who is B neg a rarish blood group, has given blood in the UK for years without problems. Went to Aus donor van today and was turned away as they can't take blood off him because he lived in Uk for more than 6 months during the CJD era.
Apparantly new test coming out this year sometime then they may reconsider. Suprised they didn't test for that at medicals as they tested for everything else under the cold grey UK sun.
Apparantly new test coming out this year sometime then they may reconsider. Suprised they didn't test for that at medicals as they tested for everything else under the cold grey UK sun.
Jan 9th 2006, 3:00 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
don't quote me on this, but i think they can still take part of your blood (plasma maybe). or i think you can donate it to research.
Originally Posted by wmoore
This is a well known thing. I haven't even bothered trying. It's a shame really because the blood service is always saying it's short of supplies but won't / can't take a chance on British blood when the chance is minute. Then again, the cost of a human life is infinite I guess .....
Jan 9th 2006, 3:55 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
Here's the Frequency of blood groups in the Australian population!
Jan 9th 2006, 9:05 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
See he's a 2% you'd think they would want him but then ony 2% need him...LOL.
Jan 9th 2006, 10:24 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
This is interesting as I am unable to donate blood here in Australia (did in the UK - 'O' Positive) and yet when asked if I would like to have 'yes' or 'no' for donating organs on my driving licence and I said said 'yes', I now have a big, fat, "Y" on my licence.
So it would seem I'm good enough to donate my organs (all of them) but not good enough to donate blood...weird....
So it would seem I'm good enough to donate my organs (all of them) but not good enough to donate blood...weird....
Jan 10th 2006, 8:49 pm
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Re: Hubby can't give blood!!!
Originally Posted by steandleigh
This is interesting as I am unable to donate blood here in Australia (did in the UK - 'O' Positive) and yet when asked if I would like to have 'yes' or 'no' for donating organs on my driving licence and I said said 'yes', I now have a big, fat, "Y" on my licence.
So it would seem I'm good enough to donate my organs (all of them) but not good enough to donate blood...weird....
So it would seem I'm good enough to donate my organs (all of them) but not good enough to donate blood...weird....
