Blood Types There are four blood types: A, B, AB, O Understanding Blood Type

http://www.naturalwellnessgirl.com/20 2/02/the!blood!type!diet!how!"nowing!your!blood!type!can! help!you!lose!weight!and!li#e!longer/ An $h %actor determines i% a blood type is negati#e or positi#e. There are eight di%%erent agglutinogens and the three common agglutinogens are &, ', and ( antigens. $h! )negati#e* do not carry the $h antigen. +% a person is $h! to $h, )positi#e* are not %ormed spontaneously, there%ore a person can recei#e a trans%usion %rom a $h, person and not ha#e a reaction. But when the second trans%usion occurs )with $h, blood* then a reaction will be a ruptured $B&. -nowing about $h %actors is important because it pertains to pregnant women. .regnant women can ha#e babies who ha#e di%%erent $h %actors. /or e0ample, when a mom is $h! and the baby is $h, then the women1s %irst deli#ery would be a healthy baby. 2ithin the second deli#ery, the mother has to recei#e a $ho3A4 be%ore or shortly a%ter birth o% the second child, in order %or her second deli#ery would be a healthy baby. $ho3A4 is a serum containing anti!$h agglutinins. Anti!$h bloc"s the mother de#eloping an immune response which leads the mother to not de#elop sensiti#ity. 2ithout the antibodies present, the second baby is space. The mother1s $h antibodies will pass through the placenta and destroy the baby1s $B&1s resulting in 5emolytic disease o% the newborn, (rythroblastosis %etalis, and the baby becomes hypo0ic/anemic which means that the baby will ha#e brain damage or possibly death. There%ore, the baby must recei#e blood trans%usion be%ore birth to replace $B&1s destroyed. Additional trans%usion a%ter birth are also re6uired.

.ersonal Blood Type +n%ormation 4other 7 O, 'ad 7 A 7 AO 4e 7 O,

A is 'ominant and O is $ecessi#e. There is a possibility that two siblings could be OO and two siblings could be AO.