This has made me and a couple other posters curious. I haven’t heard of deferrals due to allergies, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t the case. Here is one way I can imagine this scenario to be true: People receiving a transfusion are always at a certain risk for a transfusion reaction. Not all reactions have to do with blood type incompatibility; I could go into all of the types but it would take too long and this really isn’t the right place for it. One type a person can have though is an allergic reaction to the transfusion, meaning that there were allergens in the blood that the patient is reacting to. I’m serious, if you had 2 Hershey bars before donating and the person getting your blood is allergic to chocolate then that patient could actually have a reaction similar to if they ate the chocolate themselves. This is not common by any means, and is very rare to actually be a danger to a patient.
I’m wondering if this was the case with Quiddity Glomfuster, because if there was a documented and official transfusion reaction caused by a unit of blood that was donated by QG then that might be why the donation service he’s talking about is deferring him. This prediction is wildly out in right field, but maybe this was what he is talking about.
I should be excluded for several reasons, including the fact that I am a girl who has sex with girls (don’t know if that is a criteria in America but it is in Ireland), but I lie like a bitch. They are taking my blood whether they want it or not. And my bone marrow, which was a fun experience, but at least involved a free trip to london.
not on the forms i’ve filled out past and present for the indiana blood center, and i’ve been donating for years. the bias lies with men having sex with men - at least in this state. what do other states say?
I refuse to do it anymore because of the constant telephone harassment. They were calling three and four times every day, starting on the 56th day after my last donation.
I had been donating for around 9 or 10 years on a regular basis, but because of the phone calls, they’ll never get another pint. And I told them that, several times. I told them that at blood drives (stop calling me to keep donating or I will stop donating permanently), I called their offices and told them, I told the people who called me, and I asked to speak to supervisors to tell them. I haven’t donated in over a year.
Every six months they call to see if I’ve changed my mind.
