The blood banks have the most advanced testing methods available to determine if blood donations are HIV positive or negative.
Unlike standard tests used in clinics (ex. Oraquick) which detect antibodies, tests used by blood banks allow for the detection of the genetic material of the virus, which will be present during the "window period."
The window period applies when we are waiting for antibodies to form against the virus. This can take up to several weeks to develop in sufficient numbers to detect by standard antibody tests.
No. In fact, you are not a qualified blood donor when you are having a monthly period.
A blood donor is a person who donates blood for use in transfusion.
Its blood donor and it means u donate blood to someone who needs it.
the correct form is donor as in a blood or organ donor.
Blood type O is the universal donor.
My donor for my blood tranfusion was my mother.
Type O negative.
A Blood donor
Blood type O-
O negative is the universal donor because when O+ve blood group is transfused to -ve blood group recipient, antibodies are produced which causes hemolysis of Rh +ve labelled blood cells. When O-ve blood is transfused to Rh +ve recipient, no antibodies are produced as donor blood has no Rh factor present on blood cells, so no transfusion reaction occurs. Thus, O -ve is universal donor.
The blood type that is theoretically considered the universal donor is type O. Type O blood does not have any antigens, therefore it is compatible with any blood type.
No. You would have to be a O blood type. That is the "universal" blood donor. The best kind.