Recent bloodwork (with pregnancy) says I am A - . I am adopted and have access to some birth records (from 1968), which say I was A + but that my birth mother was negative. Does it sound like the records I have are incorrect or like my Rh status has changed?
2007-08-14 10:00:09 · 6 answers · asked by birdsis 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Your Rh status doesn't change. So, evidently, there was a mistake that was made.Since, you were adopted, the agency involved may have noted that your birth Mom was A+ but, there is no information about your birth Dad's Rh status. So, you are A-. I would trust what your recent bloodwork shows.
2007-08-14 12:01:13 · answer #1 · answered by Ruth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your body can't really "switch" to Rh-, however, there is a possibility that you can stop making the Rh factors (in an Rh+ person) from repeated bone marrow transplants.
Most likely, your old records, or your current ones are wrong. Not a big deal at all, unless you need a blood transfusion, in which they will Type/Cross you anyways.
Now, just because your mother was Rh- (or +) does not mean that you are the same, ask anybody who has given birth!
2007-08-14 10:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by BigJRules 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your blood group doesn't change. I'd say either your birth records were incorrect or the recent bloodwork is incorrect. If your birth mother was Rh negative doesn't necessarily mean you are too. If your biological father was Rh positive then you have a chance of being Rh positive too.
2007-08-14 10:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by christigmc 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are fairly some ifs in accordance with what you have suggested right here. First, while you're the two homozygous on your respective blood varieties then the toddler has, without mutations, a a hundred% risk of being AB. while you're heterozygous and a service of the allele for O blood style and your companion is homozygous then the toddler has a 50/50 risk of inheriting the two blood style AB or A. If its any incorrect way around and you're homozygous and your companion is heterozygous then the toddler has a 50/50 risk of being blood varieties AB or B. Now, in case you the two are heterozygous then your baby has a 25 % risk at being any of the obtainable blood varieties: AB, A, B, or O. The rhesus ingredient is slightly distinctive. while you're the two homozygous on your rhesus ingredient then the youngster could have Rh effective blood. even with the incontrovertible fact that, in case your companion is heterozygous then the youngster has a 50/50 risk of being the two Rh effective or Rh-. So, to answer your question if I had to guess i could think of your toddler is going to be AB+.
2016-10-10 05:41:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like your birth records may be incorrect...you cannot change Rh factors. If your mother was Rh neg, it's likely you are too.
2007-08-14 10:08:23 · answer #5 · answered by NurseBunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You blood type cannot change over time. When you have a negative blood type, you have both the positive and negative traits in your blood type. That is why people who are O- (the universal blood type) can give blood to everyone, because they have the characteristics of all blood types. You may have incorrect records from your birth.
2007-08-14 10:12:59 · answer #6 · answered by Tracey Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋