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However, people with type O blood can only receive type O. This is because type O blood has no antigen on the surface of its red blood cells.

A person with O type blood can donate to anyone, being the universal donor.

However, a person with blood type AB can receive blood from anyone, being the universal recipient.

A person with AB type blood can only donate to a person with AB.

A person with type B blood can donate to a person with type B or AB.

A person with type A can donate to a person with type A or AB.

Generally, for the ABO grouping, blood transfusions follow these rules: If the blood type is incompatible, the red blood cells can clump together, producing clots that block blood vessels and cause death. In order to safely perform a blood transfusion, it’s essential that a patient receives a blood type that is compatible with their own. Millions of blood cells are produced daily in the bone marrow, the soft spongy material that fills up bone cavities.īlood groupings and transfusions Credit: Red Cross. About half the blood (45%) is made up of blood cells, with the remaining 55% being plasma. Credit: Red Cross.īlood is essentially made up of two types of blood cells (red and white), platelets, and a fluid called plasma. When both parents are A, the child will have either O or A. If mum is AB and dad is O, the child will have an A or B blood type. For instance, if your mum is AB and your dad is A, you can expect to be A, B, or AB.

Whether your blood group is type A, B, AB or O is based on the blood types of your mother and father. Like eye color, blood type is genetically inherited from your parents. Conversely, type AB-positive blood is called the universal recipient type because a person who has it can receive blood of any type. Type O is the most demanded blood type in hospitals, both because it’s the most common and because O-negative blood is a universal donor type, meaning it is compatible with any blood type. This Wikipedia page has the blood type distribution in every country. For instance, 45 percent of Caucasians are type O, but 51 percent of African-Americans and 57 percent of Hispanics are type O, according to the Red Cross. In many Asian countries, Facebook allows users to include their blood type in the profiles.Different racial and ethnic groups typically see a different distribution. It is not really a big matter whether it is right or not, but the important thing is that the blood type characteristics chart gives us opportunity to examine our strong and weak points. Yet, I found it interested in knowing the tendency of people based on the blood type. Of course, this criterion doesn't fit every individual. Are Filipinos arrogant? Instead of falling in line, many cut the line ignoring the people waiting. That's one way of expressing love for a Filipina. Filipina is jealous when it comes to relationship. Filipinos are friendly too much friendliness sometimes crosses the line of other's privacy and becomes rudeness. Filipinos are optimistic they have "may bukas pa" and "bahala na" attitude all the time. Filipinos are sociable they are known as a very hospitable people. Filipinos are agreeable instead of insisting his/her opinion, Pinoy usually say "sige" or "puwede" and prioritize the unity of a group of people. No doubt that type O is the closest description of the Filipino's characteristic as a whole. Type AB: cool, controlled, rational, sociable, adaptable, critical, indecisive, forgetful, irresponsible, and "split personality." Type O: agreeable, sociable, optimistic, rude, jealous, and arrogant. Type B: wild, active, doer, creative, passionate, strong, selfish, irresponsible, unforgiving, and unpredictable. Type A: earnest, creative, sensible, reserved, patient, responsible, fastidious, over earnest, stubborn, and tense. Here are the strong and weak traits of a person according to one's blood type. I feel there is something to do with blood type and personality.

I am not fully convinced, though, when I realized that most of Filipinos are O blood. In the Philippines, according to the Health Department, the most common blood type is Blood Group O followed by A, then B and AB.Īlthough there is no scientific proven correlation, a popular belief in Japan is that a person's personality, temperament, and compatibility are predictable based on one's blood type. The shortage of A blood was surprising for me because the most common blood type is A in Japan.

CEBU, Philippines - "Please donate A blood to save a boy from dengue!"My father and some other teachers of Manila Japanese School donated 400cc blood each for a boy since a hospital didn't have enough stock of A blood.