I'm not an expert on hematology or transfusion medicine, but I think it's unlikely that much, if any, alcohol would survive the process from donation to transfusion, and it would be rare for enough to survive to make you drunk.

First of all, most transfusions are packed red blood cells, which are separated physically from the rest of a unit of blood, including the liquid components.

When those liquid components are transfused, as so-called fresh frozen plasma, it's still been processed and reduced to a small concentration of plasma proteins and small concentrations of other minerals found in the original donation.

Considering, as well, that you're diluting the donation by at least a factor of 5-10 in a transfusion, you'd have to be pretty blitzed to have much of an impact.

Question:

If you are drunk when you give blood and the donation is not screened can the future recipeint get drunk when they transfuse your blood?

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Man-tears that is all.

That was great, Beck. It reminded me of a time some years back when there would be these spam messages that would have a small paragraph full of gibberish at the end, as if someone was playing with a Magnetic Poetry set and just threw it all in there.

It also reminds me of this:

Paul F. Tompkins - Google Voice Transcripts

I get all sorts of spam and unsolicited offers through my clever-name email. This one I found particularly entertaining.

Hello,

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We can easily handle bulk writing assignments. Let me know if you want to discuss any project.

Thanks and Regards,

Wendy Ray

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