Does drinking blood harm your body? Is there any scientific reasons? Please provide any sites or articles.?

Question

Drinking my own blood not other people's?

Answer 1

There are physical risks and how to avoid them:

It's very easy to get some disease if you drink blood. So make sure your donor is healthy. If you drink frequently, say once a month or more often, you and your donor better get blood tests two times a year. Otherwise, once a year would be good. If you don't want to pay for tests, go to give blood to Red Cross or similar place. They test it and you get the results.
This is just common sense: Clean the knife or whatever, and the skin before cutting, and the wound after drinking. And remember that the sharper the knife, the better. Surgeon knives are generally the sharpest you can get. (Note! Surgeon knives are used in arts, especially watercolor-painting, if someone asks you why you want to buy one.)
Mouth has all kinds of bacteria. Before drinking swish some water in your mouth. Do not brush your teeth, because your gums can start bleeding and if you or your donor has some blood-borne disease, the other surely gets it.
For the same reason as above, if you have bleeding wounds in your mouth, do not drink blood.
For the well-being of your donor, don't suck blood from the wound. Let it pool and then lick it away or something. Sucking hard can cause damage to veins.
Do not cut too deep. There are lot of small veins near the surface of skin. And watch out for major arteries. And anyway it's better that the donor cuts him/herself, firstly because it may be hard to control oneself when one knows that soon one will get blood, and second because of legal matters if something happens.
Keep bandages, and the phone number of someone who knows more than first aid and who you can trust, nearby in case something more serious happens. I don't think you want to try to explain in the policlinic just what you were doing... But if something that cannot be treated without expert medical help, happens, don't hesitate to go to doctor. It's better to try to explain the wound than to end up with a dead friend.

Answer 2

Blood, as such, is a nutritious food. Have you never heard of blood sausage? Although I don't find it palatable, probably due to conditioing. Many cultures use it in soups, etc. It does not go back into your veins intact, as all the components are digested and absorbed and utilized as any other food would. Uncooked blood, though acts as a strong laxative. There are a few relatively rare disease states such as hemachromatosis in which this would not be a good idea, though. Chances are you don't have those.

Answer 3

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Does drinking blood harm your body? Is there any scientific reasons? Please provide any sites or articles.?

Answer 4

Blood is no more dangerous to you than any other food, rich in iron, easily digestable. Any thing that comes out of your body that isn't an expelled toxin is of no danger to you at all. However you wouldn't want to eat any kind of food out of someone's wound. There aren't many diseases that you can't catch from someone by drinking their blood but it's not the flu that should worry you, any really scarey virus, the cannot cure deadly viruses and syndromes are only communicable by blood contact. Before you drink someone's blood you need to be absolutely sure of their health and even then accept that it's still pretty dangerous

Answer 5

I suppose it depends if you are drinking animal blood, as in a fresh kill or butchered animal, or if you are drinking human blood. If it is human blood, there are risks of catching diseases such as HIV which causes AIDS, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, and other blood borne diseases. As for animal blood, again, it will depend on whether or not the animal was infected with any disease that could cross over and infect human beings (take Mad Cow disease, bird flu, anthrax, foot and mouth disease for instance, not to mention diseases from bacteria that may be present such as that from uncooked or improperly cooked meat. (Remember Jack-in-the-Box?) This is why meats must be USDA inspected before sold to the consumer.

As for drinking your own blood, I suppose it depends on how deeply and where you cut yourself, (risk of cutting major blood vessels and cutting deep tissues); if the instrument you use is sterile (risk of infection); and how much blood you are letting (more than a pint would depelete your blood supply leaving you weak, lightheaded and anemic). If you are talking about a cut on your finger that you sucked the blood from.... no harm done.

Sorry, I don't have any specific sites or articles to pass on to you. The information if have given you is primarily from previous learning and news articles over the years.

Answer 6

If it's infected with a disease you could catch it.

If the blood is human, it's a verifiable scientific fact the human body can not digest human blood and you will receive no nutritional value from it, it will just pass through your system.

Answer 7

Why would you drink blood when there is so much good red wine. It is healthy to have two glasses a day.

Answer 8

Well you are likely to have constipation if you drink too much. Otherwise, its ok, since you are drinking your own, can't do much harm. Its rich in iron as well.

Answer 9

Leveticus in the Bible is against it. Personally I think it is strictly a health law. Many harmful things are carried in animal blood, Plus why on earth would you want to... Isn't there enough variety as it is on your grocery store shelf?

Answer 10

drinking blood is filthy and can be fatal !!!
the body only recognises the self blood (or any one who has the exact match of your blood) this can only be taken through veins in injections. if you swallow blood you might end up with major poisoning !!!! blood contains antibodies and whole load of microorganisms !!! blood can be perfect for the growth of millions of harmful bacteria and when u swallow it, you r just swallowing them. in order for a single drop of blood to be transfered to a human body it has to be 100% sterile. so if it didnt harm you with the antibodies it has, it will harm u with the organisms it contains.