[Closed] How do I find out my blood group ?

How do I find out my blood group ?

Order a Babycham in a pub with a flat roof?

Go give blood!

EDIT - you can get your blood type, but it's not there and then. Once you're registered, you'll get it

If your future employer needs to know then they should pay for the test.

If you sign up for the blood service website, your blood group appears in your personal details. www.blood.co.uk

I know because I used it about 15 minutes ago to check mine.

Or just tell them you're 0+, 38% chance you'll be correct.

If your future employer needs to know then they should pay for the test.

Probable cost £150 which I'm not keen on.

Why isn't your (future) employer footing the bill for the tests they need?

Jinx.

I am curious what employer would want to know your blood type?

I am curious what employer would want to know your blood type?

Because he is a professional cyclist and they need to know what blood type he is for the transfusions....employer supplies the drugs and covering up transfusions, OP pays for the original bloody typing?? (ok clutching at straws)

OP why?

Give blood.

Say, for example, I have a needle phobia and can't sign up to the vampires how do you find your blood type then?

I'd have asked for my blood back if I'd given it and then not being given the type.

Cut yourself

If it's red

Then good news, your blood type is 'Human' 😉

I’m truly at a loss to think of any situation where an employer would need to know an employees blood type.

Rachel

I’m truly at a loss to think of any situation where an employer would need to know an employees blood type.

That, but with - if they did need to know, I'd assume they had the means of finding out!

Could be a job where he might get injured and have to be treated on a site where there is no access for the emergency services?

Tell us OP! 🙂

I’m truly at a loss to think of any situation where an employer would need to know an employees blood type.

I’m truly at a loss to think of any situation where an employer would need to know an employees blood type.

Maybe he's joining the A-team? ....or their slightly less well known counterparts, the AB+ Team...

Lots of people ask,and unless you've been pregnant, given blood or had a transfusion you will not have been tested.

And it is pointless knowing...

You can be given O- in an emergency. In every other circumstance perhaps outside war zones, they will always test you again before every single transfusion.

I would say your prospective employer is either an idiot or pointlessly nosey or should get on and arrange the test himself.

Don't go and give blood just to find out your blood group. If you're going o donate, do it regularly or not at all.

/RantOver

Two thoughts, why does an employer want to know your blood group? And if they have a valid reason then they can pay for the test.

Related, a post came up on my Twitter feed today where a gay guy I know said he was prohibited from giving blood on account of his sexuality. [url= http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/26/review-rules-banning-gay-men-from-giving-blood ]Seems it's true[/url]. 😕

I need to provide my blood type from time to time for work. If I'm involved in an offshore survey somewhere remote and/or undeveloped then the shoreside medical facilities like to know it in case someone needs emergency treatment.

a gay guy I know said he was prohibited from giving blood on account of his sexuality.

They used to be quite strict about stuff like that, not just your own sexuality but the sexuality of your partners. I've half a memory that quite a while back now I couldn't give blood because I'd slept with a lass who had slept with a bloke who had slept with another bloke, or some such. They're relatively relaxed these days I believe.

I've half a memory that quite a while back now I couldn't give blood because I'd slept with a lass who had slept with a bloke who had slept with another bloke, or some such. They're relatively relaxed these days I believe.

Try travelling with work, I've been banned from giving blood as my company does business in Africa (and I travel there occasionally).....

Maybe he's joining the A-team? ....or their slightly less well known counterparts, the AB+ Team...

I give that joke a B-

And also they can find out at the medical

They have relaxed the rules slightly on who can donate. But as above, if you are a man and have had sex with a man then you can't donate. There are other questions about your sexual past, but can't remember them all off e top of my head.

What Dr Stoatsbrother said....

The gay blood ban rules are strange, to say the very least.

Being trans, up until the point I had changed my paperwork (passport etc), I was banned from giving blood. Magically, the day after it was completely fine.

Apparently passports have strange blood-healing properties. Is that why they are red?

Rachel

and even less likely that the medics would rely on such a poor source of information.

And probably had a risk of blood poisoning...

The gay blood ban rules are strange, to say the very least.

1in10 gay men in London, 1in8 in Brighton, and 25% of those are undiagnosed. And the blood test used to screen donated blood only picks up the viral load if you've been infected for >6months. Nothing to do with sexuality, everything to do with not killing people with infected blood.

Join the Armed Forces. They test your blood and even give you a dog tag with it engraved there!

This might not fit with your career plans or even be the best option.

Exactly what centralscrutinizer said.

Maybe he's joining the A-team? ....or their slightly less well known counterparts, the AB+ Team...

I give that joke a B-

Oh! are you positive? 😉

Stoatsbrother - Member
And it is pointless knowing...

You can be given O- in an emergency. In every other circumstance perhaps outside war zones, they will always test you again before every single transfusion.

Might be worth knowing when blood donations of certain groups are low and they are calling out for particular group donors.

I don't know mine despite numerous blood tests. Whenever I ask after tests they don't tell me any details other than the tests were OK.

I really must do the donor thing.

the AB+ Team...

Oh! are you positive?

The joke police should throw you in the cells.

Davesport, you've done well to get a job offer in the current climate.

Maybe he's clearing drains?

25% of those are undiagnosed.

How on earth can you count the number of people who don't know they've got it?

or even diagnosed with what - we’re not told!

How on earth can you count the number of people who don't know they've got it?

So out of 40 people, 3 know, and 1 get's picked up randomly (i.e. they didn't know), gives you your 25%.

or even diagnosed with what - we’re not told!

Sorry, made the assumption that as we were discussing blood donations and problems with those who've visited Africa or gay that HIV was the obvious answer, which is what those stats related to.

Don't they record your blood group when you are a baby?

That’s no good - babies can’t read!

How on earth can you count the number of people who don't know they've got it?

Total number of people minus number of people who do know that they have it. Simples.

I've found people in other countries find it incredibly strange that no Brits know their blood type. These tend to be countries where they have compulsory national ID, so everyone's blood type is on there and it's used as a trusted source in emergencies, presumably because the likelihood of an error in the test used to get you ID is about the same as in a test in the hospital.

Here in Colombia the test is offered by pretty much any medical centre, and costs about 2 quid.

Birth certificate. Or ask your folks.

+Me on the employer paying

Don't you just hate it when people ask a question, get (some) sensible answers and a couple of counter questions, then just disappear.

C'mon OP, why does your new employer need to know?

I don't remember it being on my birth certificate?

In the UK there is no useful reason to know your blood group. If you are have a routine operation and may need a blood transfusion then you are tested before the op. If in the case of massive life threatening trauma then they will stick O in you until your results come back. They'll then deal with the complications of the wrong blood group as a secondary. If you needed blood that badly then the complications are further down the list of things that are going to kill you.

The reason for screening donors with questions about their sexual history, not their sexuality, is to assess the risk of your donation carrying HIV, hepatitis, etc. The lessons learned from countries where undiagnosed HIV was an issue, coupled with paying donors to donate, has resulted in these questions.

The rate of infection of HIV is still significantly higher in gay men and their partners than in the straight population. It's rising in the straight population and that will lead to a different strategy in the future.

EDIT: It's not on your birth certificate. There is simply no need to know.

I don't remember it being on my birth certificate?

Nor do I, but I was very young at the time.

In seriousness, I'm 99% certain it isn't on there. I had to dig out mine last year and I'm sure I would've noticed (as I've always been curious what my blood type is).

Home test kit

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Just make it up - better than paying £150 - who's going to know?

You're not jabbing me again mrsfry...

ok peeps...

[i]not [/i]on the birth certificate

[i]not [/i]tested at birth

[i]not [/i]tested on any routine blood tests unless you are pregnant or going to have a tranfusion or major operation

[i]not [/i]necessary otherwise

It's not on your birth certificate. You (your parents) will have been given a card with your blood group on it, possibly an NHS card. I've certainly got one so they are not a new phenomena.

hammyuk

You're not jabbing me again mrsfry...

Not letting this Paxo go to waist.

It's on my birth thingy. I'm B+ (or - )

mrsfry - Member
hammyuk
You're not jabbing me again mrsfry...

Not letting this Paxo go to waist.

Don't eat it then...
A minute on the lips....

Job application is for overseeing deep diving activities in foreign climes. Permits to enter the areas in question require client approval. For some reason blood group is featured on many of the documents.

I have previously been excluded from giving blood. My red blood cell count (I think) was continually at or below the normal minimum due to long exposures to high PPo2 whilst at work hence I've not been before. Acclimatising back to atmospheric o2 levels isn't pleasant and makes exertion a real chore.

Thanks to those who posted something sensible 😀

Thanks for the update Davesport.

so many people, so wrong, so little time.

thought mrsfry was a sock for ages... think I know now.

[b]Davesport[/b] sounds fun. Bottom line - this is a really weird thing to ask. You do not, repeat not, want to receive anything other than o neg, or freshly and newly cross-matched blood. Do not trust blood from a place which cannot do this.

I'll have you know, I'm a hand puppet.
One size fits all 🙂

Yup, as said, go give blood. They let you know and you help someone out.

Giving blood also saved the life of someone I know as they picked up early she had leukemia

It's buzarre they want it, I struggle to believe that anywhere sophisticated enough to have a transfusion service would ever give out blood on the basis of a secondhand historical blood group. They would as stoatsbrother says be killing people left right and centre. Believe me you don't want a transfusion reaction, it makes you very very sick.

At least we are now pretty clear that guessing your blood group would be an error.

To be honest, unless you're going for a transfusion in about 3 days, knowing your blood group now is a bit pointless.

I could have "DrP pro racer, blood group F-" stickers all over my bike/helmet/ass, but if I ended up in ED needing blood, they'd simply recheck my blood type there and then...

Same for work..there's no situation where you'd need an emergency transfusion without someone (ideally medical) checking your type first, regardless of what you think it is.

Of course, my brain is small and it's early, so you may need to know for another reason, but I can't for one think of clear reasons why just now..

DrP