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Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study

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Re: Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study

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Post by incomingpain »

Canadian blood services specifically doesn't allow me to donate blood. Admittedly, I fear needles pretty fiercely anyway so it's not something I'm going to be fighting.

I find it interesting though that the argument to donate blood is that one's blood might be toxic. That giving away your toxic blood might make your own blood less toxic.

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Post by jesusofnazarath »

incomingpain wrote: post #2

Canadian blood services specifically doesn't allow me to donate blood. Admittedly, I fear needles pretty fiercely anyway so it's not something I'm going to be fighting. I find it interesting though that the argument to donate blood is that one's blood might be toxic. That giving away your toxic blood might make your own blood less toxic.

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Post by wirelesspotat »

incomingpain wrote: post #2

Canadian blood services specifically doesn't allow me to donate blood. Admittedly, I fear needles pretty fiercely anyway so it's not something I'm going to be fighting. I find it interesting though that the argument to donate blood is that one's blood might be toxic. That giving away your toxic blood might make your own blood less toxic.

Yeah, the article mentions recipients of the toxic blood. I wonder if there will be more research to identify any risks for recipients

> The logic in removing them is simple: PFAS work by binding to serum proteins in the blood; removing some of this blood, therefore, would lead to the reduction of forever chemicals in the bloodstream. As to the question of what happens to recipients of this blood: “Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are ubiquitous, and no threshold has been identified that poses an increased risk to recipients of donated blood components.”

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Post by DrBoring »

incomingpain wrote: post #2

Canadian blood services specifically doesn't allow me to donate blood. Admittedly, I fear needles pretty fiercely anyway so it's not something I'm going to be fighting. I find it interesting though that the argument to donate blood is that one's blood might be toxic. That giving away your toxic blood might make your own blood less toxic.

That prompts a curious thought: If you dump 1 unit of your toxic blood into the 9 units of blood inside the body of a transfusion recipient, then how toxic does their blood become? 1/10 toxic?

I've also wondered, is it possible for a transfusion recipient to fail a drug screening test because their doner had recently consumed drug prior to their donation.

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Post by d4mi3n »

incomingpain wrote: post #2

Canadian blood services specifically doesn't allow me to donate blood. Admittedly, I fear needles pretty fiercely anyway so it's not something I'm going to be fighting. I find it interesting though that the argument to donate blood is that one's blood might be toxic. That giving away your toxic blood might make your own blood less toxic.

Is there any reason why one couldn’t simply have blood as a kind of treatment?

I’d certainly be happy to have blood drawn if it meant lowering blood toxicity I had no other way of treating.

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Post by neogodless »

Donate your perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to those in need!

Hmm:

> As to the question of what happens to recipients of this blood: “Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are ubiquitous, and no threshold has been identified that poses an increased risk to recipients of donated blood components.”

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