American Red Cross Blood Transfusion

....JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES are being proved correct on their stand for the sanctity of blood & for health reasons.?

....The Boston Globe Magazine reports that blood specialist Dr. Charles Huggins admits that blood “must be considered unavoidably non-safe.” He describes blood as “the MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE (my caps) we use in medicine.” Since early 1989 the number of infectious diseases blood banks typically test for has increased to five (HTLV-I, associated with adult T-cell leukemia, syphilis, hepatitis B, AIDS, and hepatitis C). However, according to AMERICAN RED CROSS authority S. Gerald Sandler, “it seems that it’s only a matter of time until we find another rare disease spread by blood transfusion"
UPDATE #1
*** g95 6/8 p. 21 Canada’s “Tainted Blood” Inquiry ***
The Globe and Mail, it is estimated that “as many as 1,000 Canadians a year die of hepatitis C.” The newspaper adds that “up to half of them may have contracted the disease from blood transfusions.”....
.....Justice Krever listened intently to more than a hundred Canadians whose lives have been shattered by HIV and other tragedies resulting from tainted blood. Medical experts have testified that it is impossible to make the blood supply totally safe from disease transmission and other dangers. They have admitted serious risks and misuse associated with blood. Dr. J. Brian McSheffrey, medical director of a regional blood transfusion service, testified that he draws attention to the problem by saying in lectures: “If you have to give a transfusion, you’ve either failed in diagnosis or failed in therapy.”
**PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETE , with 3 of the 6 chambers in the barrel is getting to be the norm with blood transfusion if not 5 of the 6 , please note:

*** hb p. 19 You Have the Right to Choose ***

Dr. Charles Huggins, who is the director of transfusion service at the large Massachusetts General Hospital, made this very clear: “Blood has never been safer. But it must be considered unavoidably non-safe. It is the MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE ( my caps)we use in medicine.”—The Boston Globe Magazine, February 4, 1990.

>>THE risk factor is getting worse as more diseases are being surfaced, those little unseen bugs can really do a job on every pint of blood in existence:

*** g00 1/8 p. 8 The Growing Demand for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery

>>The general public too is becoming aware of the dangers of transfusions. Indeed, a 1996 poll revealed that 89 percent of Canadians would prefer an alternative to donated blood. “Not all patients will refuse homologous transfusions as do Jehovah’s Witnesses,” states the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
>>“Nonetheless, the risks of disease transmission and immunomodulation offer clear evidence that we must find alternatives for all of our patients.”

*** g96 2/8 p. 29 Watching the World

“Blessed Are Jehovah’s Witnesses”
>>As in many other countries, a blood scandal has erupted in Italy. It is claimed that thousands of liters of blood were distributed to transfusion centers without adequate screening or without proper safety precautions being taken, thereby exposing thousands of people to the risk of contracting illnesses such as AIDS and hepatitis.
>>Commenting on the shocking situation that put profits above personal health, Luigi Pintor, editor of the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, began his article with these words: “Blessed are Jehovah’s Witnesses, who . . . refuse blood transfusions for religious reasons. As they read the newspapers these days, they will be the only ones who will not have to worry about what is going on . . . in the blood industries and clinics that sell and administer blood, plasma, and related derivatives to their fellowmen.”

*** g95 7/22 p. 29 Watching the World
>>Blood—A Dangerous “Drug”
“Could it be that the Jehovah’s Witnesses ARE RIGHT (my caps) in refusing blood transfusions?” asks England’s Sunday Telegraph. Current transfusion scares involve blood contaminated by hepatitis C and the AIDS virus. “But infection is only one of a number of dangers that have been described in professional journals,” says the Telegraph.
>>“Studies such as the one that estimated the chances of an adverse reaction to a transfusion as high as 20 per cent are little known to the public. Equally unfamiliar are the studies that have found that having a transfusion is the best predictor of making a poor recovery after abdominal or colon operations.”
>>Studies also show that a high percentage of blood transfusions are given unnecessarily and that transfusion practices vary widely and are based more on habit than on scientific data. Calling blood “a powerful drug” with which “most surgeons are far too cavalier,” Tom Lennard, consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, commented: “If blood was a new drug IT WOULDN'T (my caps) receive a product licence.”

SIDING WITH a popular method of treatment rather than safe disease control by refusing blood is a folly that will come back on people!

For indeed as this stand by the Witnesses is verified in the Bible(Acts 15:19.20,28,29)-- this true warning applies :

(Galatians 6:7) “7 Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap;”
>>And the greater consequences of contributing to pandemic affect may also be reaped:
(Hosea 8:7) “. . .“For it is wind that they keep sowing, and a storm wind is what they will reap. . . .”

2007-12-31 07:53:58 by THA

How can I help them? Just like that Saving lives is so easy - give blood now! Saving lives is so easy Give blood Hong Kong Red Cross Blood ...

I'm giving a speech on why people should donate blood and I know for a fact that out of 100 Americans, 95% of people are eligible to give. While 5% are not, because of a variety of reasons, only 5% out of the 95% give. Which of course is a very low number.

Although I know the info, I need to find a source for that info. I've been all over the American Red Cross page, plus others, and can't find it. All they say is that 95% of American will need a transfusion at least once in their life before they die. I haven't found anything on what I need.

PS - after donating blood, people are allowed to eat snacks and read some handouts, and that's where I got my info. But I can't find simular handouts or articles on the net...

Thanks...

Actually is closer to 20 percent. Certain diseases such as hepatitus prevents donating blood. Having an STD is another reason. Also skin conditions like shingles is another reason. Also having unprotexcted sex with a prostitute prevents it if one is honest about it in the preexam.

2008-03-31 10:57:56 by freakknastyy

....JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES are being proved correct on their stand for the sanctity of blood(Acts 15:28,29) & for health reasons ESPECIALLY by religiously predjudiced people?

....The Boston Globe Magazine reports that blood specialist Dr. Charles Huggins admits that blood “must be considered unavoidably non-safe.” He describes blood as “the MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE (my caps) we use in medicine.” Since early 1989 the number of infectious diseases blood banks typically test for has increased to five (HTLV-I, associated with adult T-cell leukemia, syphilis, hepatitis B, AIDS, and hepatitis C). However, according to AMERICAN RED CROSS authority S. Gerald Sandler, “it seems that it’s only a matter of time until we find another rare disease spread by blood transfusion"
UPDATE # 1
**HELLO out there in religious land--is there anybody out there using some reasoning factors, or is the unpopularity of our stand too , too, much to bear--MY MY!

**WHAT IS being recommended out there in MEDICAL LAND as to the BENEFIT/RISK FACTOR?

*** hb p. 19 You Have the Right to Choose

With good reason, medical personnel have been advised: “It is necessary to REEVALUATE (my caps)as well the risk part of the benefit/risk relationship for blood transfusion and to seek alternatives.” (Italics ours.)—Perioperative Red Cell Transfusion, National Institutes of Health conference, June 27-29, 1988.

--DO YOU prefer playing RUSSIAN ROULETTE with 3 of the 6 chambers in the "blood transfusion gun" that may someday reach 5 of the 6!

**I guess our religious community really fit this bill (1 Corinthians 15:32) “. . ., “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.”. . .”
**NO MATTER WHAT?
***Quoting isofblue's answer, on MORE complications of blood transfusion dangers

"I thought it was interesting to note, according to TIME magazine,(12/31/007) studies have shown a disturbing spike in heart attacks--as much as 25%--and even deaths in patients who have received blood, usually within a month after the transfusion.
>>They think it may be because a unit of blood loses up to 70% of its nitric oxide (which is responsible for helping red blood cells carry oxygen to tissues and for propping open tiny vessels) within hours of leaving the body. By the time the blood reaches its "use by" expiration date, 42 days later, the gas is almost nonexistent.
Since the blood loses it's ability to carry oxygen, what benefit is it really? Is it simply "fluid" ?
>>Here is a link to the article in TIME magazine just in case someone hasn't read it yet."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl e/0,9171,1670523,00.html...
***SIDING WITH a popular method of treatment rather than safe disease control by refusing blood is a folly that will come back on people!

For indeed as this stand by the Witnesses is verified in the Bible(Acts 15:19.20,28,29)-- this true warning applies :

(Galatians 6:7) “7 Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap;”
>>And the greater consequences of contributing to pandemic affect may also be reaped:
(Hosea 8:7) “. . .“For it is wind that they keep sowing, and a storm wind is what they will reap. . . .”

--AS FAR AS OUR DARING to say we are right!
>>We give full credit to the author of the Bible, Jehovah God for his wisdom in providing mankind direction!
>>WE JUST choose to side with his Divine mandate:

Acts 15:19,20,28,29 (NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION)
"19 "It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God
>>20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood...
....28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements...
>>29You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to AVOID THESE THINGS. Farewell."

*** jv chap. 13 p. 186 Recognized by Our Conduct ***

>>In 1987 the French medical daily Le Quotidien du Médecin stated: “MAYBE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE RIGHT (my caps)in refusing the use of blood products, for it is true that an important number of pathogenic agents can be transmitted by transfused blood.”

***BLOODLESS SURGERY gaining popularity MSNBC NEWS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12466831/fro m/ET/

**ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER
---"Bloodless Medicine & Surgery"
http://www.englewoodhospital.com/medserv ices.cfm?pageid=40&bc=0

**"UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM"
"Bloodless Medicine"
http://www.pennhealth.com/health_info/bl oodless/

2007-12-31 08:14:35 by THA