It ends up being more complicated. You get enough infusions as AB+ and you’ll start picking up strange antibodies that increase your chance for that sense of impending doom
Similarly you could likely receive O+ blood if you were O- without adverse effects, but only once.
Yeah we don’t really mix blood types at all here in Lebanon, and I really doubt they do anywhere else. Universal donor and universal recipient is just theory, in practice it’s easier to receive O- than AB+ because AB is really uncommon (as is the case everywhere).
AFAIK the A/B and Rhesus antigens are not the only markers and there are more blood compatibility components that are taken into account if possible.
It ends up being more complicated. You get enough infusions as AB+ and you’ll start picking up strange antibodies that increase your chance for that sense of impending doom
Similarly you could likely receive O+ blood if you were O- without adverse effects, but only once.
Yeah we don’t really mix blood types at all here in Lebanon, and I really doubt they do anywhere else. Universal donor and universal recipient is just theory, in practice it’s easier to receive O- than AB+ because AB is really uncommon (as is the case everywhere).
AFAIK the A/B and Rhesus antigens are not the only markers and there are more blood compatibility components that are taken into account if possible.