Vegetarian /receiving blood

[nikkie]

Reminded by the transplant thread.

I was recently talking to a friend of a friend and somehow the topic came to needing a blood transfusion.She said she would never have one as she was veggie and would rather die than recieve the blood of someone who had eaten meat.I thought that this was a drastic measure, especially as a parent.
Discuss!

Eeek!

Oh, FGS. I've had two blood transfusions and tbh I never felt anything other than a sort of guilty gratitude towards the people whose blood I received. Did she have children?

easy to say when you don't need a transplant

that should say tranfusion (getting my threads mixed up)

An extreme philosophy for a vegetarian! Not one I have heard before!

Maybe she needs a medical explanation to reassure that the blood of the cow is not running through her veins.

I'm vegetarian, and had a transfusion after I had dd - it saved my life. It didn't even cross my mind that the donor might have been a meat-eater ... why would it? There wasn't a lump of steak in the bag, when all said and done.

Blood transfusion = living, no blood transfusion = not living. A bit of what my dh calls a "no-brainer" really.

So what does she want instead? Carrot juice?

Her reasoning was that the 'platelets and stuff were made by a body sustained by meat so the platelets and stuff were made from the meat'

Yes she is a parent

She needs a bit of a lesson in human biology then.

And maybe she also needs a bit of a reality check.

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Ooooh WWB you're back - nice time?

Had a great time, yes thanks. Haven't dared step on the scales yet though

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Just seen you on BigMoFo's thread will chat there!

I've never had to have a blood transfusion. however my late dad did, especially when he was getting his transplant. I think its a very extreme reaction from your friend, and what would she do if she needed alife saving op, and was under anasthetic when the decision was taken to give her blood?

Bet she'd change her mind if she really needed the blood. Am veggie but daft comments like that, based on speculation not reality, just make me cross.

maybe she had a kind of 'yuck' reaction to the idea of a transfusion and just blurted out her reaction rather than a considered statement..

hope so anyway.

otherwise, i hope she's ready to die.

She did seem very determined about it but it just didn't seem very informed about it.

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Seems totally ott - would she seriously rather die?? This might sounds really harsh but doesn't give much of a message to the people in her life around her. Its one thing to be strong in your beliefs but totally another to be prepared to give up your life for it like that.

I'm veggie and wouldn't have a problem with a blood transfusion. In my time I've known some "extreme" vegans and veggies and , TBH, I can't imagine them having a problem with it.

The only time I've come across people refusing blood transfusions was when I worked on a children's ward and there was a child from a family of Jehovah's Witnesses who came in for an op , but thats a whole different thread/debate ! (luckily the child didn't need a transfusion in the end)

I've been vegetarian for years and have never even thought about that.

But i wouldn't think about it if i needed a blood transfusion.

What would your friend do if she needed an organ donation???

Would she refuse that and let her children grow up without a mother????

She sounds a bit barmy.

Who was it (celeb) who wouldn't let hairstylists do her hair unless they were veggie?

With the general consensus here - friend is barmy.