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Title: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: puneet_c_2k on 11/02/2005 10:49:16
can anybody tell that are there any restrictions in marrying a person who have same blood groups ( ie AB+ to be very exact ).please answer this urgently.thanks in advance
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: Titanscape on 11/02/2005 12:52:51
I have heard that African and Europeans cannot always reproduce succefully. The children only live to 12 sometimes. And no "Kissing Cousins". We have in this forum some of their pictures, aaghhh.

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Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: neilep on 11/02/2005 12:54:59
I think you're seeking a medical answer here aren't you , rather than a social one ?...because blood group does not determine if you can marry someone or not, in any case, there surely is a ' treatment ' the wifey can have to make child bearing not a problem. Is this the gist of your question ?....but what is your point if not ? and why the urgency ?.......good luck anyway.

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Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: MayoFlyFarmer on 11/02/2005 15:57:17
unless things are very different in otehr parts of the world, and I'm just ignorant, the answer is definately "no".  Unless, that is, you are fancying to marry your pet goat who happens to be AB+ as well.

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Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: neilep on 11/02/2005 16:33:32
....good one Justy !!..I forgot about the goat equation and this of course applies to any other cloven-hoofed, horned mammal....unless of course it's a unicorn which are well sexy !![:)][;)]

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Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: DrPhil on 11/02/2005 16:48:36
There is no risk to sharing the same blood type. The pregnancy risk normally associated with blood type has to do the Rh factor. A woman who is Rh negative may develop antibodies to her baby's blood if the father (and thus the baby) is Rh positive. This is easily prevented with an injection of a substance that blocks the formation of these antibodies in the mother.
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: neilep on 11/02/2005 17:00:42
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Originally posted by DrPhil

There is no risk to sharing the same blood type. The pregnancy risk normally associated with blood type has to do the Rh factor. A woman who is Rh negative may develop antibodies to her baby's blood if the father (and thus the baby) is Rh positive. This is easily prevented with an injection of a substance that blocks the formation of these antibodies in the mother.


I can vouch for that as that is precisely the situation with wifey and me...thank you Dr Phil for your words of wisdom.

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: bezoar on 13/02/2005 17:56:35
No problem with blood types at all.  As for the Rh negative/positive problem, it's only a problem, as I recall, if the mother is Rh positive and the baby is a negative, and it's only a problem after the first pregnancy.  They give Rhogam so the mother will not develop the Rh antibodies after pregnancy, and that solves the issue.
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: DrPhil on 13/02/2005 19:16:12
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Originally posted by bezoar

...it's only a problem, as I recall, if the mother is Rh positive and the baby is a negative...
I think you got that backwards.
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: bezoar on 19/02/2005 06:06:21
Bet you're right.  It's been a long time since I did any ob-gyn.  Don't like to listen to screaming women.
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: johndiver on 19/02/2005 15:49:53
In the past, the rhesus factor (Rh + or -) made it dangerous for a woman to get pregnant by a husband whose blood Rh was opposite hers. Nowadays, although there are dangers to mixing the rhesus factor, a competent doctor can detect the condition then counsel the parents and administer medication to prevent the mother's body from rejecting a fetus having the wrong blood.
Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: Ultima on 19/02/2005 16:25:42
Me and my Mum are A- my Dads A+, my Mum had some trouble before I came along, and im an only child, so that might explain things. I wonder how many families with one or no child (not by choice) have parents that have opposite Rh factors?? Has there been any study into this? In the UK + is 84% of the population, so it might be a big problem thats not noticed very often???
http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/all_about.html


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Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: MayoFlyFarmer on 22/02/2005 05:17:23
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Originally posted by bezoar

Bet you're right.  It's been a long time since I did any ob-gyn.  Don't like to listen to screaming women.


nothing i love more than hearing my woma scream!  [;)]

The problem of in compatible blood types between mother and fetus has nothing to do with fertility.... only after conception.... i almost want to say not until birthing.  This is only an issue during the second (or subsiquent pregnancys) after the mother has had a chance to develop antibodies against the forgien blood type.  But none of this is often a problem today as there are drugs to treat for it and it is routinely screened for.

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Title: Re: How do blood groups affect whom you marry ?
Post by: qazibasit on 10/04/2005 17:14:37
i dont think that there is any problem in marrying such person.