Health Tips - Complications

Saturday, January 16, 2010

If health blood hasn’t been properly cross-matched, antibodies from your blood may cause the donor red cells to burst, causing hemophiliac anemia. Symptoms include weakness, pallor, rapid heartbeat, chills, and fever. Your health blood may also have allergic reactions to plasma, white cells, or platelets in the donor blood; symptoms of this kind of reaction are fever and a rash.

If donor hasn’t been carefully screened, infections such as hepatitis B or HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) can occur. But donated blood is usually rigorously tested, so the risk of infection is very small.