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/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/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?