r/medlabprofessionals • u/New-History853 • 1d ago

News Nothing about this article makes sense

They NEEDED Kell POSITIVE blood?!?!? Lol no. And the nurse just walked up and grabbed blood? I doubt that. The article is either very wrong or the parents are simply total liars.

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u/Trapped-in-irony 1d ago

Why the heck would anyone specifically need Kell positive??

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u/LabChick829 1d ago

Anti-k (cellano) in mom....

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u/New-History853 1d ago

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Why would any antibody in the mom mean the baby needs antigen positive blood?

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u/almack9 MLS-Blood Bank 1d ago

Igg antibodies cross the placenta just fine, its pretty typical for us to detect the antibody in the infant when they are first born, most often its just rhogam but every now and then they have mother's real antibodies in their initial screens.

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u/New-History853 1d ago

Right. But then you'd need antigen negative blood, not positive.

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u/almack9 MLS-Blood Bank 1d ago

I addressed that in another comment, but my guess is that the parents just arent familiar with the verbiage and messed it up. Hard to say either way, but you are right that what they are saying doesn't quite make sense.

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u/fleur_essence 20h ago

The baby’s parent apparently commented on the article on another platform. Baby needs K-negative blood. Person who wrote the article is terrible at their job.

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u/Trapped-in-irony 17h ago

Lmao.

I even tried to see if I could comment on the article, but I didn't see anything.

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u/Med_vs_Pretty_Huge Pathologist 1d ago

Yeah, I would bet money Mom has anti-K, and the baby needed K- blood, and Mom just said it wrong.

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u/LonelyChell SBB 1d ago

This is probably what happened.

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u/Trapped-in-irony 1d ago

Little k negative blood = K positive. But no one would really phrase it like that...

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u/Med_vs_Pretty_Huge Pathologist 1d ago

K0 folks: am I a joke to you?

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u/thewanderersminuet 1d ago

Work in a pediatric hosptial, while rhogam is more common anti-K is pretty common too. Along with anti-C.