Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Male blood vs. Female blood

This just in... so men's blood is better than women's blood?! After a close read of this health report, this is somewhat correct but not entirely true. The statement only applies to "plasma transfusion." So some of you may wonder what's the difference between plasma and blood? Let me give you a brief lesson here (coz i don't know a lot about it either, hence, brief): once blood is donated/collected, it is divided into red blood cells, plasma, and platelet (helps u stop bleeding, the clotting factor). Appearantly, women who have been pregnant develop this antibody to their babies' foreign father cells, and if this blood is given to some people who happen to react to this antibody, they will develop horrible reaction to it and develop serious complications to their lungs, which they may die from it.
What a ground breaking discovery!
Even though plasma is not often used in transfusions, it is still important. So men, go give blood.
This may make people think that women's blood is not wanted anymore, in fact, the opposite is true. Because plasma is seldom used in whole for transfusions, most of the supply is used to produce other important life-saving blood products, like the immunoglobulins (we give this on my ward all the time). Therefore, while men's plasma is being saved for people who needs whole plasma transfusion, more is needed from women to make up for this loss. Was this clear?
There's a new learned lesson everyday.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

最後一句是我的“每天都學到新的東西”﹐喝﹐真好用﹕)

謝謝小蛇老師的講解(和為女人嗆聲)。

讚。

FT said...

I don't get it~ :3

pandaming said...

me neither.

plasma..? isn't LCD better??

Unknown said...

u ignorant men...

Unknown said...

Basically it means men's plasma is going to be saved for one purpose while women's is going to be multi-function. ;)

Ying-Hsu said...

you don't know what's plasma? it is junior high biology!!!

FT said...

Who cares about what blood's good. We'll let doctors to figure that out~

Unknown said...

u'll care when it involves ur own or ur loved ones' life.