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How well is donated blood screened? |
I'm rh negative and newly pregnant, and have to get a shot that has something like immoglobulen from someone else's blood to make sure the baby is safe in case it has rh positive blood (i guess it's completely routine for mother's who are rh negative). I've never had a transfusion or shot like this before and I'm really nervous, and was wondering how well they really do screen donated blood for stuff like HIV and other diseases? I tried to look online but couldn't find anything conclusive to make me feel better... Its called rhogam...its a blood based product. IT is sreened very well. You get a shot at 28 weeks and within 72 hours of baby being born if its a positive. If you have any vaginal bleeding during the pregnancy...then you need to go to the hospital for a shot. Relax..there is nothing to it. I had them with my first pregnancy as I am O-...and had them with this one. Rhogam has been around forever. I'm unaware of the RH issue... but I can tell you that donated blood, tissue, plasma and platelets are all held to very high screening standards. The verbal screening of the donor alone immediately eliminates potential donors quickly. After they pass the verbal screening, they do a short physical check, just taking basic vitals. From there they have a few tubes of blood drawn, labeled and dated then sent for testing for any and ALL disease. Then the person donates and that blood is "held" until the vials come back from the testing. If any blood fails its immediately disposed of. There is always a risk but its very small. My son had to get 2 blood transfusions when he was 3 months old. I was extremely nervous. The surgeon and nurses told me that the blood is screened for every disease known to date. The only way the blood would have something in it is if by some off the chart chance, someone had a disease that has not yet been discovered by anyone. You don't have anything to worry about. they are very thorough when screening donated blood and anything else donated HIV and other blood related illnesses are looked for and if found the blood is unusable and discarded |
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