White Blood Cells, Red Blood Cells both pass between mother and baby.

by ithinkisee 14 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  M.J.

  Here's an interesting website: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/2/T020600.asp

  HOW HUMAN MILK PROTECTS FROM ILLNESS

  Human milk is more than food. It's a complex living substance, like blood, with a long list of active germ-fighting and health-promoting ingredients. These help protect babies against all kinds of infections, common and not-so-common.

  A drop of breastmilk contains around one million white blood cells. These cells, called macrophages ("big eaters"), gobble up germs. Breastmilk is also power-packed with immunoglobulin A (IgA), which coats the lining of babies' immature intestines, preventing germs from leaking through. Secretory IgA also works to prevent food allergies. By coating the intestinal lining like a protective paint, it prevents molecules of foreign foods from getting into the bloodstream to set up an allergic reaction.
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  YoursChelbie

  Of course the "Unfaithful and Indiscreet Slave" wants people to think they know more about the sanctity of blood than GOD.
  By His own design, God made the passing of mother's blood to unborn baby part of the way humans grow in the uterus.
  By His own design, mother's milk is rich with vital human blood components which serve as a natural way to preserve the life and health of the baby.
  
  
  
  doesn't need to be poured into the ground. And the statement in Acts to "..keep abstaining from things strangled and from blood.." was addressed to Gentiles who would associate with Jews as new converts and clearly was a reference to not eating animals which died and had not been bled properly before being consumed. YC
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  belbab

  I have a quick unresearched question.

  If red cells and other blood components pass from mother to placenta are their blood types the same?

  If they are the same and later after the baby is born or even grows up, there is an accident and the offspring needs a blood transfusion, why would it not feasible for the mother to donate blood to save her offsprings life.?

  If it is a natural function during pregnancy, why would it be against God's law after pregnancy?

  belbab
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  YoursChelbie

  
  ABO blood type incompatibilities between the mother and unborn baby do not cause incompatibility problems in the uterus because antibodies (made in the blood of the mother ) to the ABO blood groups (of the baby) are of the IgM type, which do not cross the placenta. The only problems with blood incompatibility occur when a Rh negative mother has given birth to a Rh positive baby and subsequently becomes pregnant with another Rh positive child.

  Here is a helpful article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh_disease

  After the baby is born, any blood it receives (even from the mother) needs to be be determined as compatible since the placenta isn't there to provide the protection against incompatibility.

  YC
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  YoursChelbie

  why would it not feasible for the mother to donate blood to save her offsprings life.?

  
  

  
  It would be very feasible, if they are of compatible blood type.

  YC