Do you know your blood group?

Aveline

AB+. Blood group diet sounds interesting. Will check it out.

You are AB like me. You are good with dairy products and coffee! Lamb, mutton, turkey and rabbit are the best types of meat. I naturally like lamb and turkey, and cod and trout for fish, also on my list. Chestnuts, peanuts and walnuts are beneficial nuts, so you can go to town on the peanut butter!
The book is much more detailed!

AB+. Blood group diet sounds interesting. Will check it out.

Just to add, there is also the blood group diet which is very interesting to read. The idea is that some foods are better for you depending on your blood group. Others cannot be processed very well by your body and should be avoided. This can also affect your weight. It's fascinating because I naturally seem to lean towards some of the recommended foods (before seeing the book!) They seem to agree with me. A friend of mine is very allergic to dairy products and is advised for her group to avoid dairy. I've found a lot of truth in the things they recommend.

Yes , ‘A’ rhesus Positive.

I had a yellow card issued by the National Transfusion Service in 1983 and it says on the back “carry this card with you at all times”.
I don’t as it would probably be disintegrated by now - but I do have it registered as a Contact in my phone - and a photo image of the card is on the phone - and my family know it is there.
(I store my Nhs number in my phone too)

I know mine from donating blood.
The same for DH .

However as I am O neg, it was also in my pregnancy notes.
I was informed of both my children's blood groups at birth .

Apologies, posted twice as first one seemed to disappear ?

You will all get my blood - Rh O negative - I’m a first responder blood donor as anyone with any other blood group can have this! I’ve known all my life as sadly there were a lot of babies who died in my parents and grandparents generation- an Rh neg mum pregnant with an Rh positive baby will develop dangerous antibodies that will kill off the red blood cells in a subsequent Rh pos baby. It’s easily treated now with injections during pregnancy but it wasn’t and my mum was told never to have babies - luckily dad was Rh negative too. That’s one of the reasons we all are tested during pregnancy. My daughters have always known their blood group too as their foetal blood was taken at birth. Even if you don’t know yours and they can’t find that tatty card you have in your purse they won’t give you any old blood. Just mine !

A+ here. Dh is A-. Ds1 is O-, which is the universal donor. O+ is not a universal donor as negative blood groups can’t receive positive blood. However, da lives in the US, where they won’t take his blood due to mad cow disease concerns.

No medic will ever give you a blood transfusion without carrying out a test first.

The vaccination card is issued by Public Health England. It includes a gateway number, but I have no idea what that is.

Redhead56

I was a blood donor my blood type is RH neg group A. When I had my children I asked their blood group and wasn’t told. I think it’s every bodies right to know too.

I agree Redhead. Your blood group should be recorded in your medical record, just as your allergies and medication is recorded. Apart from all the medical reasons, I think we have a right to know our own blood group, just as we have the right to know who our father is (I strongly objected to allowing anonymous sperm donors). It's knowing who you are. Susie, you may not care but I and others do.

I happen to be the rarest which is AB Negative, and I am also interested in family groups. I'd like to make a family tree of blood groups but it's virtually impossible because so many are not known.

The vaccination card is issued by Public Health England with a gateway number.

I've known that my blood group is A positive since I was pregnant with my first child.
My mother was A- and my dad was A+. My sisters and I had to be delivered at the large maternity hospital in the next town in case we needed blood when we were born.

My husband and I both got vaccination cards

I’m the same as growstuff - all to do with a lack of irregular antibodies, apparently.

Blood Groups

O positive: 35%
O negative: 13%
A positive: 30%
A negative: 8%
B positive: 8%
B negative: 2%
AB positive: 2%
AB negative: 1

I am another O+ from Blood donations and probably from doctor's records.
When my DS first discovered he was A+, he boasted that at least he was top in something.

lemsip

Esspee You must have a small card with date and which vaccine you were given, if indeed you have had a vaccine. they don't just give a vaccine and off you wander with no record of it in your possession.

That is exactly what happened to everyone I know here.

My husband and I knew our blood groups and chose to have our children tested so that in an emergency we would know which of us could be donors for each other.
When next visiting our paediatrician I asked him to update the children’s records with their blood group.
He went ballistic. According to him it was child abuse. I didn’t bother to question him on his attitude, it had been done already but in retrospect I did wonder why he objected so strenuously.

Rosie, we were just told the name of the vaccine and that was it! I do know it's on my medical records, as my GP mentioned it yesterday.

Marydoll

No-one I know here in Glasgow was given aa vaccine card.

I am in Scotland and have had the AZ vaccine. I didn't get a card though and none of my friends have had one either.

I have known my BG since I started giving blood at aged 18, I went along with my Dad, they gave all blood donors a card with blood group. My Dad was B Pos, I remember the excitement when they took his blood straight to the hospital as it is one of the rarer types. I gave more than forty pints of blood before I moved abroad. Unfortunately, I have had to have four pints back, but happily still in credit.

We were given the card. It states the name of the vaccine, batch number and date of the first dose. It has space for recording the same information about the second dose when we've had it. The front of the card instructs to keep it safe in a wallet or purse. I wonder why you and others you know weren't given one Marydoll Maybe it's just an England thing then as I think the regions are responsible for their vaccine rollouts.

No-one I know here in Glasgow was given aa vaccine card.

suziewoozie go and have another lay down, you're going over the top again. They majority know how to look up what you have posted. Just a thread to ask if we did or didn't know our group.

O positive seems a high percentage of us are.