SC - Re: SC: Use of Medicinal Leeches

[Jenne Heise]

>   Another thing is...why is this person in need of theraputic bleeding?  Any 
> medical reason for either the overproduction of blood or lack of ability to 
> break it down would probably render the blood "suspicious" for reuse.  

Apparently, the Red Cross used to have some policy against taking blood
from people whose blood was too iron-rich, but according to someone I just
met this summer who has that condition, apparently they will let him
donate blood now. (Of course, he is now on 'maintenance' bleeding: when he
had to be bled once a week, he couldn't donate because they could only
accept blood once every x weeks.)

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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