SC - Re: SC: Use of Medicinal Leeches

[margali]

Ahem. You cannot get diabetes from blood. It is not contagous. The proscription
for diabetic blood is if you are on any type of medication, the same holds if
you have allergies, asthma or any other chronic illness that requires
medications. Actually, they don't even want you if you have had aspirin or
ibuprofin in the past week..
margali
3 gallons and still bleeding;-)
diabetic and on no meds...

KallipygosRed at aol.com wrote:

> It is the same thing that is wrong with a diabetics, or an aid's victim. The
> blood itself carries the disease that afflicts the person--in this case, one
> that causes thickening of the blood--and so would create the disease in the
> person you use it on. That is the theory, anyway. I know in some extreme
> emergencies they have used diabetic blood. I know that is why I cannot give
> it. I had hepatitus as child.
>
> Lars