| From: Shorty | 13/04/99
14:12:28 |
| Subject: Blood Groups | post id:
6579 |
| What makes blood groups
different? What is a blood group? I am O pos, So? What makes my blood different from AB negative for example? | |
| From: ^..^ | 13/04/99
15:11:21 |
| Subject: re: Blood Groups | post id:
6597 |
| Blood types have different
receptors depending to the type. the receptors are used for the white
blood cells (antibodies) to help remove any foreign material. Therefore, A
blood type, will reject B Type. AB will accept either a,b or O (universal
recipient) and O has no receptors, will work with any type (Universal
Doner) the short fall of this is that O type Blood can only accept O type.
Hope this helps | |
| From: Ben Gooley | 13/04/99
17:37:25 |
| Subject: re: Blood Groups | post id:
6610 |
| The way I think of it, you've got
your basic blood without anything. This is onagative, because the three
things you can add are 'A' protein, 'B' protein and rhesus
'Positive'. If you add any of these three things to the blood, you add that to the basic blood. So, add 'A' protein and rhesus 'Positive' and you get A+. If you just add rhesus 'Positive' you get O+, since O is 'ordinary'. If you've got an addition, then you can receive a blood with or without that addition. If you don't have the addition, you can't receive any blood with that in it. So O- can't receive anything else because all other types have something added. If you've got AB+, you've got all three added so you can receive any type, but can only give to AB+, since every other type will complain (O- can be given to anyone, since there's nothing in it that will cause problems). I'm A+, so I can receive O-, O+, A-, A+, and I can give to A+, AB+. Hope that helps. Ben. | |