Yeah, I’m writing a book that includes vampires, and one of the things I’ve decided is that while vampires and other monsters can basically be capable of whatever I happen to decide they can do, humans are going to be stuck obeying the boring old vanilla laws of physics.
This means that the notion that many vampire series tend to imply, namely the idea that vampires can live off of a single human, does not work. Vampires need a pint of blood every day, and that’s about the size of a typical blood donation, which humans can only safely do once a month. So there’s no way a vampire in my book could possibly survive off of a single human.
However… I am curious if there are any known ways to speed up that month-long recovery, a vitamin, or a diet, or something that will return their blood to its normal healthy state sooner. Am I in luck?
Damn, I really want to say “cookies and orange juice”, but since this is GQ, I’m not supposed to until a good factual answer is given.
My guess: lots of fluids and iron supplements to prevent anemia.
Also, people can give plasma very frequently. This leaves the red blood cells in the person. Having your blood drunk would reduce the red blood cells. Where are the red blood cells made? I think in the bone marrow.
It used to be that if someone needed a bone marrow donation, the donor would have bone marrow removed from their hip bones. Nowadays, however, they have drugs that you use for a week that <mumble, mumble> marrow cells in your blood stream, from which they can be removed by aphoresis (sp?).
So I’d check out what drugs they use for this type of bone marrow donation.
