Wrong Blood Group can cause death

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Posted: 19 years ago
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Sandy could be the cause for the death, Ranvijay might have had an hit and run and Sandy's blood group will not by B as requested by the nurse. See an article about blood donation here

If you have blood group A then you've got A antigens covering your red cells.

Blood group B means you have B antigens, while group O has neither, and group AB has some of both.

The ABO system also contains lots of little antibodies in the plasma, antibodies being the body's natural defence against foreign antigens.

So blood group A has anti-B in their plasma, blood group B has anti-A (you probably get the picture at this stage).

To complicate matters though, group AB has none and group O has both of the antibodies.

Which means giving someone blood from the wrong ABO group could be fatal.

The anti-A antibodies in group B attack group A cells and vice versa.

Which is why group A blood must never be given to a group B person.

Group O negative is a different story.

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Posted: 19 years ago
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God hun.....i do enough of this in school!!😆

But i get what you're saying.......though i'm sure they would have checked Sandy'd blood group before letting him donate blood!!

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Posted: 19 years ago
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that is a really good theory, but i don't think that ekta is taking a lot of time and thinking of antigens... i know what u mean though, i'm a premed student and that would be a really good cause of death =)
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Posted: 19 years ago
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God if only I could believe that Ekta had the brains to be that technical!!!!! 😆

Nice theory tho! 👏
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Posted: 19 years ago
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before transfusion they usually check the blood group. so i do not think that wrong blood group was the cause of death.
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Posted: 19 years ago
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im surprised they didnt check Sandy's blood!!!!

how do you just give someone else blood without checking it first...

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Posted: 19 years ago
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wow never thought about that gud one hun!!

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