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Do you know your blood type?
A+. Everybody should know their blood type and it should be connected to their ID.
Nope, there are many more of them than other types.So I can give to 4 types but can only get from 2
and the poor people with O are just out of luck huh?
wow
Nope. The guys like Ben roll up their sleeves a lot.Take someone like me, B-, or someone with AB-, we really may be out of luck.
Worldwide frequency of blood type by race and culture.
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Do yourself and the O- around you a favor and try not to bleed and if you have to, bleed slow.Nope. The guys like Ben roll up their sleeves a lot.
Drink it, don't inject it.Remember to keep your coconut trees healthy because coconut milk can be used as plasma in humans.
It may be almost sterile inside the coconut, but try getting it out of the coconut under field conditions and maintain sterility.In the Pacific islands during WWII the water from coconuts was used to replace blood plasma in IV. As long as the outer shell is not cracked the material inside is sterile and can be used to replace lost plasma in intravenous feed.
Are the reports true that for the rest of his life he had a craving for macaroons?It may be almost sterile inside the coconut, but try getting it out of the coconut under field conditions and maintain sterility.
However, that's not the worst part. Coconut water does not have the proper pH or salinity to inject into your boodstream. Sure, you could probably get by injecting just a small amount of it - you can do that with plain water too - but any quantity large enough to do much good will probably be a disaster.
The WWII use of coconut water intrigued me, because I had not heard of it. So I did a little research. Indeed they did do this during WWII. To ONE guy. And evidently he survived. Probably not because of the injected coconut water, but in spite of it.
We used to do that when I was a paramedic on an ambulance. We didn't carry blood (because it has to be refrigerated, crossed and type matched), but we had IV solutions. Standard protocol for really bad hypovolemic shock was TWO bags of either Normal Saline or Ringer's Lactate going in simultaneously into two injection sites, large gauge catheters, macrodrip IV setups, and blood pressure cuffs around the IV bags. On top of that, you were wrapped in MAST pants (if not contraindicated by injury location of a few other things). MAST pants are like a "whole-body blood pressure cuff" that you wear around your abdomen and legs. Flush O2. And helicopter transport if available. You have to move really fast. On all the TV shows you see trauma victims getting CPR and then an hour later they are fine. Doesn't happen like that. I have never seen even one person survive if their heart stops due to blood loss. You better be actually sitting on an operating table with surgeons prepped and ready if that happens and you hope to survive.I did not know they could "shotgun" blood into you if you need it bad.
They also make spring loaded IV dispensers with a coil spring. We used them on air medivacs. You'd uncoil the spring, drop in the saline, and then set the drip rate that you wanted. You didn't need an IV pole so you could keep the IV fluids warm and under a blanket. I've seen saline freeze in the administration set before it could reach the arm.Trivia:
I did not know they could "shotgun" blood into you if you need it bad.
I watched.
If you think they put a unit of whole blood on an IV pole and let it gravity feed into you like an IV, you are in for a surprise.
They set it up like that, and the nurse puts a blood-pressure cuff around the bag and starts pumping the bulb like crazy.
In less than 2 minutes the bag is empty and they are hooking up another one.
This is why blood and plasma are in bags and not in bottles like every other IV fluid.
Two units of blood into you in less than 4 minutes! .
That makes all the difference in the world. Better than coconut water with saline added would be plain water (sterile) with saline added (which they probably didn't have in that WWI emergency situation). Sterile water with saline is called "Normal Saline" and it comes prepackaged and is still in use today for volume replacement. You can live with "diluted blood" to a point, so what you get in the short term is IV fluid "volume replacement". It's kind of like your car. In an emergency in the short term, it really doesn't care much if you fill it up the radiator with antifreeze or plain water (so long as it's not freezing out). But just don't run it with too low fluid, whatever that fluid is. IV volume replacement is only good to a point - once your blood is so dilute it doesn't have enough red blood cells in it to carry the oxygen you need, things go from bad to worse. That's one of the reasons why bad trauma patients get high flow O2. Blood also carries away CO2 as well as supplies O2, and contains white blood cells for fighting off the cuties - so you can only limp along with IV fluids and supplemental O2 for so long before you croak.and saline was added
Haha. I’m a Med tech in a hospital lab. I have had this memorized for almost 40 years now. I am B Negative.
B negative, just like me. I only learned that it was fairly rare a few years ago.Haha. I’m a Med tech in a hospital lab. I have had this memorized for almost 40 years now. I am B Negative.
It is one of the rarer ones. It’s much better to have a very common one for availability should you ever need it. But we really have no choice in our blood type. My Dad was B Negative, also.B negative, just like me. I only learned that it was fairly rare a few years ago.
Very few IV fluids are in glass anymore.Trivia:
I did not know they could "shotgun" blood into you if you need it bad.
I watched.
If you think they put a unit of whole blood on an IV pole and let it gravity feed into you like an IV, you are in for a surprise.
They set it up like that, and the nurse puts a blood-pressure cuff around the bag and starts pumping the bulb like crazy.
In less than 2 minutes the bag is empty and they are hooking up another one.
This is why blood and plasma are in bags and not in bottles like every other IV fluid.
Two units of blood into you in less than 4 minutes! .
Not to take away from all of the great uses for coconut milk, but the important part of knowing your blood type is if you need blood or someone you know needs blood.And I have RH negative A blood, and I know I can't receive any positive blood. But my mom has it, I can give blood to her, our oldest daughter has it, and a few lady cousins locally have it.
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