When this woman said
As he explained how ESAs worked he did mention that the treatment might benefit me in the days following my delivery, and affirmed that it was my right to decide whether I want the treatment or not. He wanted to discuss it with my obstetrician first. Should we get the green light, he would need to know my blood type. This made me very confused. “Why does it matter what my blood type is with EPO? Isn’t EPO a bloodless product?” He paused and said, “Yes, it is technically a bloodless product but they make it from whole blood and they prefer to use blood that matches the patients.”
I didn’t know what to say or what to think. I realized that I knew nothing about blood, how it works and its components. Being a curious person, I had to find out.
This peaked MY curiosity, and I had to look it up also... I couldn't just take "her" word... So far, after an hour of searching, I cannot find anything to say that 'matching blood type' is necessary.... Anyone in the medical field that knows? So far, it looks like it is a hormone, made from animal ovaries, and it can be synthesizeds. Blood types? check out below regarding blood type "o"
http://ajwrb.org/hematologist-helps-open-the-eyes-of-pregnant-jw
One of the original and most successful biotech drugs, EPO is
a complex protein with chains of sugars on its surface. Chinese hamster ovary
cells, a type of mammalian cells often used in biotech manufacturing, are
generally used to produce a humanlike version of EPO for pharmaceutical use.
Like many other complex biotech drugs, EPO must be produced in mammalian cells
because microbes like bacteria and yeast don’t have the cellular machinery to
stick the critical sugar chains onto the protein.
https://www.medicinenet.com/erythropoietin/article.htm
Erythropoietin (EPO) definition and facts
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Erythropoietin (EPO)
is a hormone produced by the kidney.
- Erythropoietin promotes the formation of red blood
cells by the bone marrow.
The kidney cells that make erythropoietin are
sensitive to low oxygen levels in the blood that travels through the kidney.
These cells make and release erythropoietin when the oxygen level is too low. A
low oxygen level may indicate a diminished number of red blood cells (anemia), or hemoglobin molecules that carry oxygen through the body.
http://www.healthcommunities.com/anemia/blood-transfusion.shtml
Blood Transfusion
Hospitals use blood supplied by blood banks (companies that
collect, prepare, and store blood for medical and emergency uses). Blood banks
type blood and test the compatibility of donor and recipient blood before
transfusion (called cross-matching). Blood types are A, B, AB, and O. Whether
the type is positive or negative depends on whether the Rh factor is present on
the person's red blood cells.
All types can receive O negative blood, but may not be
compatible with other types:
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Recipients with A+ blood type can receive A+, A-, O+ and O-
blood types
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Recipients with B+ blood type can receive B+, B-, O+ and O-
blood types
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Recipients with AB+ blood type can receive AB+, AB-, O+ and O-
blood types
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Recipients with O+ blood type can receive O+ and O- blood types
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Recipients with A- blood type can receive A- and O- blood types
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Recipients with B- blood type can receive B- and O- blood types
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Recipients with AB- blood type can receive AB- and O- blood types
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Recipients with O- blood type can receive O- blood type
Other Treatment for Anemia
Injectable EPO (e.g., PROCRIT, EPOGEN) is an alternative to
blood transfusion to treat critically ill patients with anemia. Exogenous EPO
is identical to the natural hormone in its role of stimulating the bone marrow
to produce red blood cells. EPO has been used safely in many clinical settings,
including chronic renal failure, oncology, and surgery. In the ICU, use of EPO
has been shown to reduce the amount of blood transfused by almost 50%, at the
same time significantly increasing hemoglobin levels.
https://peterattiamd.com/what-do-anabolic-steroids-epo-and-carbohydrates-have-in-common/
EPO
Erythropoietin (EPO) is a hormone produced by the kidney which
regulates the body’s production of red blood cells – the cells in our
bloodstream that transport oxygen to all tissues and carbon dioxide back to the
lungs. Under normal circumstances the body highly regulates the
concentration of red blood cells and hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein carried
by the red blood cells that actually binds oxygen and carbon dioxide and allows
red blood cells to transport these gases in our bloodstream. If you
donate blood, for example, you are “giving away” red blood cells and
hemoglobin. Your kidneys, sensing this, make more EPO, which signals to
your bone marrow to make more red blood cells and hemoglobin.
