Do you know your blood group if so do you give blood

I did give blood but they won’t take it at my age O resus pos

I am B+. Was a blood donor until I was ill and had to have a blood transfusion myself. Since then I was barred in case I had mad cow disease! Am too old now anyway.

Yes and yes

A Neg but they haven’t taken mine for years.
I used to be a regular blood donor.

I’m A positive so very common thank goodness. They don’t want my blood since the cancer diagnosis.

Last time I went the children were all still at very young. Another donor suddenly grinned at me and said “It’s like having a night out, isn’t it”. Some of us are easily pleased!

I used to give blood, but at the height of the AIDS epidemic, when the number of things they checked for before you gave blood grew exponentially, they started asking about allergies. I admitted to an allergy to penicillin, and I haven't given blood since.

I got a formal letter telling me I was not to give blood again.

Now I am too old.

A+, but have never been able to donate for a number of reasons.

I have read that there is talk of A+ blood groups, being more susceptible to catching Covid19. .
I don't know if it is just another rumour.

I'm reading a fascinating book, called Blood of the Isles, which talks about tracing our genetic roots, using blood groups, before DNA became a much more precise science.

Yes, I'm O+. I used to give blood, but too old now.

I’m A+ too. I can’t give blood now owing to having a blood transfusion after giving birth to my son in 1980.

Yes I’m O negative , I was a regular blood doner until I had an illness then unfortunately it had to stop

A pos. I had yellow jaundice in my youth, and for years I was told I could not give blood. I believe it's possible now to give blood but I never have.

A neg. Gave blood for 35 years, but when they changed a rule (about iron?), I couldn't hit that target.

Marydoll - a piece of research came out of a Chinese university, but it's not been peer-reviewed yet
'The results showed that blood group A was associated with a higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O was associated with a lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups'

Chardy, thanks for the info. I knew I had read something about it.

I'm AB+ so they rarely need a top up of mine. I'm also allergic to penicillin. I started to donate back at the start of the AIDS epidemic.

O neg. Up until last year I donated but I’ve recently had to use efudix cream on my nose and it seems I can’t donate again for 2years. Seems amazing, I didn’t use much.

A- I also haven't donated for years since a transfusion

Can't remember group - I used to give blood until I was under 8st when they said I was too thin - oh for those days back again!!

AB+. the universal recipient, also allergic to penicillin. I used to be a donor and still have my card

I'm A Neg and used to try to donate. Sometimes I was allowed, sometimes not depending on my iron levels at the time.

I'm AB+ and allergic to penicillin also. Do the two go together?

I was a donor in my youth and we used to get a letter saying what the donation had been used for e.g. "In an operation on a man with liver cancer".

I gave blood regularly for over 20 years, then they started asking new questions before taking donations.

It turned out that because I lived in Singapore as a child about 1960 I was told not to donate anymore. There was some sort of epidemic apparently at that time, can't remember all the details.

My OH donated for nearly forty years

Yes and Yes, although I live a few hundred miles from a donor centre so it depends if I ever travel that far again.

Why? And Why?