Donors with a recent history of cholecystectomy are eligible for volunteer blood donation as soon as the surgical site has healed, they have completed any prophylactic antibiotic therapy (if prescribed) and they have been released by the treating physician.
Because you need to be 18 or above to donate blood .Also you need to be healthy with no illnesses.
Surgical clips are necessary when getting your gallbladder removed. When your gallbladder is removed, it leaves an opening in your common bile duct. Normally this opening is where the liver pumps bile into for storage in the gallbladder. Since you no longer have a gallbladder, if this opening was not sealed with surgical clips, your liver would essentially be pumping bile into your abdomen.
No. There is a 12 hour deferral since last alcohol intake if you want to donate blood.
No, we donate blood and/or rectal exam. That is tradition since 1916.
A dirty washroom wouldn't affect your gallbladder, since the gallbladder isn't connected to the outside of your body. You might be thinking of your bladder.
A person with Type O can donate to any other blood type, but can only receive blood from another Type O person. A person having blood group O (with absence of Rh-factor) only can donate his blood to any other individual. Rh or Antigen-D is a factor which decides the positivity or negativity of the blood, so the blood group O-negative is considered the universal donor, as it does not effect any of other blood groups.
No. Medic, the local collection agency here in E Tennessee, will not take my blood anymore since starting coumadin.
Probably not a good idea since Pseudoephedrine raises your blood pressure.
I don't see what the issue would be. If you're in good health, but have piercings then you should not be disqualified as a donor. Think of the millions and possibly billions of people with at least ear piercings and they aren't denied (for having piercings) the opportunity to donate to Leukemia patients.
It depends on the mother's genotype. O blood is recessive, so the father has OO blood. Both A and B are dominant, so an AA or AO genotype would result in a type A blood phenotype. Since the father is homozygous recessive, he must donate an O. Therefore, for the child to be type A, the mother must donate an A to create an AO genotype for the child. So, if the mother has type A blood or type AB blood, the child could have type A blood.
It depends on what you mean by "blood". If you mean Red Blood Cells, it is due to somthing called antigens. Type O has IgM anti-A antibodies and anti-B antibodies in blood serum, and this would "attack" blood that had A or B antibodies. Since AB has both, it cannot donate to O, and O can only receive O. With regards to Blood Plasma however, AB can donate to any group, including O.
Since the Bible commands us to "abstain from blood" accepting blood fractions is left up to the conscience of the individual witness. Some are OK with fractions, considering them no longer blood. Others refuse them also. It seems unlikely a witness would donate their blood if it may be used for a transfusion (and therefore break God's law). So I assume blood fractions would have to come form blood donated from non-witnesses.