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To: Winged Hussar

Your title is a little off.

Blood and plasma are slightly different, plasma is the liquid component of blood and AB is the universal donor when it comes to plasma.

With blood O- is the universal donor and AB is the universal recipient.


4 posted on 07/20/2007 12:43:00 PM PDT by gjones77
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To: gjones77

My whole famnily are O-, Red Cross calls us all the time.


10 posted on 07/20/2007 12:52:55 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: gjones77

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Blood and plasma are slightly different, plasma is the liquid component of blood and AB is the universal donor when it comes to plasma.

With blood O- is the universal donor and AB is the universal recipient.


The above is entirely correct. I am used to donating whole (AB) blood, which can help only about 4% of the population, but of course it frees up an O, A, or B unit for someone else. With plasma, it’s the other way around.


49 posted on 07/20/2007 2:51:39 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: gjones77

I think I am type O but I am not sure what you are saying about it.


75 posted on 07/20/2007 5:54:50 PM PDT by Ditter
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