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Hepatitis is a blood-borne disease, which means that it can be transmitted by exposure to the blood of someone who is infected. One of the most common means of transmission is contaminated needles, and (until the last few years) blood transfusions.
The blood collection and distribution system is now incomparably safer, since tests have been developed to screen infected blood, but it is much easier to exclude hepatitis patients from donating blood than it is to screen out infected blood and destroy it, and much safer. No system, and certainly no human being, is perfect, and there is always the chance of contaminated needles or equipment, and even of possibly allowing infected blood to pass scrutiny and be given to someone.
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Can you donate your blood to your friend who has leukemia?
only if you are of the same blood type otherwise no you cant
Can you donate blood if you got your lip pierced less than a month?
The global answer is no, you can't donate blood for at least 6 months, in some places you cant donate for up to a year post piercing.
Why cant a person born with neonatal jaundice donate blood?
No, this patient can't donate blood, even if he is cured he/she can't donate blood until a period of 12 month from hiss last day of jaundice. This is because Liver in Jaundice patients is not working in anormal way, and the blood in those patients is poison with bilirubin, that's why they can't donate.
Why cant you say that arterys carry oxygenated blood?
Because although most arteries do carry oxygenated blood, there is one exception - the pulmonary arteries. These take deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs so it can be reoxygenated. It is more accurate to say that arteries carry blood away from the heart.
How can you donate flood victims?
Im pretty sure you cant donate flood victims.
Where can you Donate Plasma in Midland TX?
you cant
What does cant carry a tune mean?
cant carry a tune
How do you donate fossils in fossil fighters?
you cant sorry
Why you cant donate blood with elevated red blood cells?
High Hematocrit means that the person is unhealthy and suffering from any one of a number of medical conditions. It also means that the blood is more viscous than is required and can cause damage to the heart.
Why O blood group can donate anybody?
O blood has no major proteins that A and B blood have. For example: If someone had B blood with its specific proteins, this person cant receive A blood because it has the specific A blood proteins that will cause bad clotting to stop it. O blood (with no different proteins) wont affect any blood.
How does smoking affect your red blood cells?
because your lungs cant carry as much oxygen as a person who doesn't smoke
Why cant a universal donor accept other blood groups except its kind?
because there body will reject it A universal donor's blood (O-negative) does not carry the antigens that cause rejection but other blood groups do carry the antigen that triggers the immune response. Read the link.
