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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Herpes / November 2005Question About Blood
Does anyone if you can pass on herpes through donating blood. I've never heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from Mississippi...Stan Hi Stan, No, you cannot pass it on by giving blood. The virus lives in the nerve bundles and not in the blood. However, you should call your local blood bank just to make sure. ar >Does anyone if you can pass on herpes through donating blood. I've never >heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from >Mississippi...Stan > Does anyone if you can pass on herpes through donating blood. I've never > heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from > Mississippi...Stan Short, basic answer is no because HSV is not a bloodborne virus. You can detect it there if you look hard enough (papers often cite PCR methods for this), but it just doesnt survive unless there is weirdness going on (always an option with biology). Not to mention that CMV, EBV and other herpesviruses are bloodborn so they are more likely worried about those than a weird person who is likely visibly sick anyway - CMV certainly is something they look for in the UK and I believe the US too. They will be interested in your HSV status to some extent, but mainly (as I understand it) to check that you are not actively taking drugs for it - since they dont want to transfuse a drug into someone of unknown reactivity (side efffects are rare but no point risking some one having an allergic reaction for the sake of waiting N days for the donation. Tim -- When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart ICQ: 5178568 I actually know the answer to this! I called the RI Blood Center and they told me that you have to be outbreak free for 30 days for herpes. The same holds true for HPV. Unfortunately that's not the case with me as I still have an active genital hpv case and frequent herpes outbreaks...oh well... > Does anyone if you can pass on herpes through donating blood. I've never > heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from > Mississippi...Stan Thanks, Al. I think it varies from state to state because the Red Cross website states that having herpes is no reason to not give blood. Or something like that. Same with HPV. ar >I actually know the answer to this! I called the RI Blood Center and they >told me that you have to be outbreak free for 30 days for herpes. The same [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from >> Mississippi...Stan Thanks guys. I used to donate fairly often and once gave blood before surgery to my (ex) Monther-in-law who is a wonderful person....how many people can say that about their mother-in-law Ha!! Have a great Thanksgiving...Stan > Thanks, Al. I think it varies from state to state because the Red Cross website > states that having herpes is no reason to not give blood. Or something like [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >>>heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from >>>Mississippi...Stan >having herpes is no reason to not give blood. That only makes sense. Especially considering the fact that most people that have genital herp don't even realize they're infected. And there's no telling how many people that realize they have fever blisters and don't know that *that's* herpes. M2 >> Does anyone if you can pass on herpes through donating blood. I've never >> heard anyone mention it. Happy Thanksgiving to all you nice folks from >> Mississippi...Stan > I actually know the answer to this! I called the RI Blood Center and they > told me that you have to be outbreak free for 30 days for herpes. The same > holds true for HPV. Unfortunately that's not the case with me as I still > have an active genital hpv case and frequent herpes outbreaks...oh well... Thats not really due to worries that you can pass the virus on in donation. Thats a general thing for infections of any kind (hence the common are you in good health today question). Any infection starts a whole series of chemicals sloshing round your body via the blood at levels that will have the potential to kick off reactions they do not want in patients getting transfusions Tim -- When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart ICQ: 5178568 Well the funny thing is that I asked them if taking Valtrex was okay for giving blood and they said it was okay. I guess its probably a general rule then, because most people who have genital herpes don't even know it, I was one of them for a long time. > Thats not really due to worries that you can pass the virus on in > donation. Thats a general thing for infections of any kind (hence the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart > ICQ: 5178568 > Well the funny thing is that I asked them if taking Valtrex was okay for > giving blood and they said it was okay. I guess its probably a general rule > then, because most people who have genital herpes don't even know it, I was > one of them for a long time. A 'No current infection' is usually, fairly easy to screen even at the level of common cold - its (as I understand it) the immune system responses which if you were to transfuse into say a transplant patient might kick off all sorts which would be a potential problem... Im quite surprised about the Valtrex one, most people who have asked and reported that they've been told that medications tend to drop blood out of the system - I think you are the first to have been told otherwise and mention that here from memory... Tim -- When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart ICQ: 5178568 |
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