What can B+ receive?

B positive patients can receive blood from B positive, B negative, O positive and O negative donors.
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What transfusion can b receive?

If you have type B blood, you cannot get type A or AB red blood cells. If you have type AB blood, you can get transfusions of O, A, B, or AB red blood cells.
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Is B negative blood good?

Why is B negative blood important? B negative donors are immensely important to our lifesaving work. As B negative is one of the rarest blood types, it is hard to find new donors and to ensure we always collect enough blood.
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Can O+ receive any blood?

O positive red blood cells are not universally compatible to all types, but they are compatible to any red blood cells that are positive (A+, B+, O+, AB+). Over 80% of the population has a positive blood type and can receive O positive blood. That's another reason it's in such high demand.
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Who can receive O+ blood?

Who can receive O positive blood? Anyone with an Rh positive blood type can receive O positive red blood cells – so that's A positive, B positive and AB positive as well as O positive. That means 3 in 4 people, or around 76% of the population, can benefit from your donation.
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What is special about B negative blood?

B negative patients can only receive blood from other B negative donors or from type O negative donors (who are the universal donors). Since both of those types are fairly rare, the Red Cross works hard to ensure that sufficient supplies are always available.
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What are the 3 rarest blood types?

What are the 3 rarest blood types?
  • Rh-null or golden blood. It is the world's rarest blood type, with fewer than 50 known cases ever reported. ...
  • AB− AB− is the rarest of the eight basic blood types, accounting for less than one percent of the world's population. ...
  • HH blood type, rare ABO group, or Bombay blood group.
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What is the strongest blood group?

Best Blood Types to Donate

Type O negative red blood cells are considered the safest to give to anyone in a life-threatening emergency or when there's a limited supply of the exact matching blood type. That's because type O negative blood cells don't have antibodies to A, B or Rh antigens.
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Can a+ donate to B+?

Blood A+ can donate to A+ and AB+ Blood A- can donate to A+, A-, AB+ and AB- Blood B+ can donate to B+ and AB+
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Why can AB plasma be given to anyone?

People with type AB+ blood are universal recipients because they have no antibodies to A, B or Rh in their blood and can receive red blood cells from a donor of any blood type. Plasma transfusions are matched to avoid A and B antibodies in the transfused plasma that will attack the recipient's red blood cells.
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What blood type is the universal receiver?

AB positive blood type is known as the “universal recipient” because AB positive patients can receive red blood cells from all blood types.
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What is the rarest blood type?

What's the rarest blood type? AB negative is the rarest of the eight main blood types - just 1% of our donors have it. Despite being rare, demand for AB negative blood is low and we don't struggle to find donors with AB negative blood. However, some blood types are both rare and in demand.
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Can blood type O donate to B?

Donors with blood type O... can donate to recipients with blood types A, B, AB and O (O is the universal donor: donors with O blood are compatible with any other blood type)
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What blood can a negative receive?

If you have A negative blood you can donate to anyone with a blood type of A or AB regardless of the positive or negative, however if you have A negative blood you can only receive A- or O- blood.
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What is the personality of B blood type?

People with B blood type are thoughtful and empathetic towards others and make good and reliable friends. These people also face a lot of discrimination because of their negative personality traits such as selfishness and being uncooperative at times.
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Who has golden blood?

KUALA LUMPUR — A Terengganu woman has become an online sensation over the weekend for having the rarest blood type in the world. Dubbed “golden blood”, Rhnull blood type can only be found in 43 people worldwide, out of which, one is a Malaysian woman.
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Can your blood type change?

Almost always, an individual has the same blood group for life, but very rarely an individual's blood type changes through addition or suppression of an antigen in infection, malignancy, or autoimmune disease. Another more common cause of blood type change is a bone marrow transplant.
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What food is good for B negative blood?

The Blood Type Diet guidelines indicate the best vegetables for B negative people include dark leafy greens like kale, broccoli, collard greens and mustard greens; beets; sweet potatoes; carrots and cauliflower. Pineapples, cranberries, all types of grapes, plums and papaya are considered the most beneficial fruits.
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What does B negative mean?

An individual with a B negative blood type has antigen B but with no Rh antigen on the blood. Having the presence of B antigen and the absence of Rh antigen, B negative blood type can only receive B- and O-. A transfusion with the usage of any other blood type can initiate an immune response.
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CAN A+ and O have a baby?

Could you please explain if it is possible for a father who has O positive blood and a mother with A positive blood to have a baby with O negative blood? I am a little confused and have been trying to research the answer. I would appreciate if you are able to assist. Yes this is definitely possible.
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How rare is B positive blood?

How rare is B positive blood? This means only 8% of donors have B positive blood. In total, 10% of people belong to blood group B, making it one of the least common blood groups.
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Can O Negative donate to anyone?

O negative donors are often called 'universal donors' because anyone can receive the red blood cells from their donations. Although about 8% of the population has O negative blood, it accounts for around 13% of hospital requests for red blood cells.
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