Blood Type

[TalnSG]

Originally Posted by FeyOberon

Edit: Nevermind, Taln beat me to it.

Yeah, but we both missed one other important issue. Those with Type O blood cannot receive anything but Type O - ever. They are universal donors, but not universal receiveers

Salvanas is actually the lucky one here. If necessary he can receive A, B, or O if there is not an AB donor available. Hmmm maybe vampires are AB, since they can take anyones blood and fit the personality myth a bit, too?

The two major problems with mismatching are either destruction of red blood cells (so no Oxygen it get in!) or destruction of your clotting factor.

Why do I know this? Aside from being a pre-med student for a while, I had the second reaction once and had to have an emergency transfusion to correct it. Scarey business indeed. I just wish I had pictures now, cause I was turning really interesting shades of gray and purple.

[FeyOberon]

Originally Posted by TalnSG

Yeah, but we both missed one other important issue. Those with Type O blood cannot receive anything but Type O - ever. They are universal donors, but not universal receiveers

Salvanas is actually the lucky one here. If necessary he can receive A, B, or O if there is not an AB donor available. Hmmm maybe vampires are AB, since they can take anyones blood and fit the personality myth a bit, too?

The two major problems with mismatching are either destruction of red blood cells (so no Oxygen it get in!) or destruction of your clotting factor.

Why do I know this? Aside from being a pre-med student for a while, I had the second reaction once and had to have an emergency transfusion to correct it. Scarey business indeed. I just wish I had pictures now, cause I was turning really interesting shades of gray and purple.

Very true, AB are the lucky ones!

Did they not type you before administering the transfusion?!

[MissMisa]

Originally Posted by TalnSG

Yeah, but we both missed one other important issue. Those with Type O blood cannot receive anything but Type O - ever. They are universal donors, but not universal receiveers

Salvanas is actually the lucky one here. If necessary he can receive A, B, or O if there is not an AB donor available. Hmmm maybe vampires are AB, since they can take anyones blood and fit the personality myth a bit, too?

Yes yes, that's it now.

I have previously given blood, and I felt pretty terrible after it.

I later found out I have an iron deficiency so I take suppliments and am trying to increase the amount of natural iron into my diet.

[Kimitarusan]

umm im O- ... does that mean that im negatively rough?

[RadioKid]

Originally Posted by GodNickSatan

Over half the population of Japan must be really stupid.

Oh! You didn't know that?

[RadioKid]

Originally Posted by Ryuk999

is it possible to change 'blood type'?
jus a question i've been wondering

Once I had a colleague who loved his having blood type A and hated people of blood type B saying "they are not punctual and change their mind so often...".

One day, he had a detailed health check before his marrige and found he had been blood type B.

Then, his characteristic was totally changed. He comes late, change his mind often and said "I'm very happy to have type B. Now I feel free. The days I believed I was A were definitely wasted".

Thus, Japanese are easily suggested.

When a hypothesis was made on blood type, they might believe it and behave as they are expected by blood type.

[VitalStatistic]

I'm O negative... o.o

[alanX]

Originally Posted by Ryuk999

is it possible to change 'blood type'?
jus a question i've been wondering

No....not possible and pointless.
Your immune system would basically attack itself, and you would die within hours.

[ozkai]

Originally Posted by RadioKid

Once I had a colleague who loved his having blood type A and hated people of blood type B saying "they are not punctual and change their mind so often...".

One day, he had a detailed health check before his marrige and found he had been blood type B.

Then, his characteristic was totally changed. He comes late, change his mind often and said "I'm very happy to have type B. Now I feel free. The days I believed I was A were definitely wasted".

Thus, Japanese are easily suggested.

When a hypothesis was made on blood type, they might believe it and behave as they are expected by blood type.

That's a perfect explanation

I am also now wondering if this blood type theory has s anything to do with the brain.

My Korean partner tells me that Korean people are very intelligent, and If I remember correctly, Japanese, possibly old time culture believed part of the Japanese brain was also very intelligent.

True or not, I am curious if the Japan and Korean thoughts are related through time in some sort of connection between the two cultures?

Obviously the blood is also important to the brain.

[Salvanas]

Originally Posted by GodNickSatan

C'mon man, the idea is absolutely ridiclous. Anyone with half a brain should realise that. The whole "theory" of linking personality and strengh to blood types comes from Nazi idelogoy, which, forever reason Japan borrowed. It's incredibly stupid.

I think you mis-understood my comment.

I was calling your comment that over half of the Japanese population must be stupid, bold.

I mean, you know, I could do the same thing by calling Australians the "trash" of England. But I don't do that. I know a few ignorant Australians, doesn't mean the rest are.