I have recently shared a story about an O positive patient’s blood type changing to O negative and an O negative patient’s blood type changing to O positive.
When examining possible reasons, a simple method of converting blood from one group to another comes to mind:
The process uses bacterial enzymes to cut sugar molecules from the surface of red blood cells.
A study reported on a 4-month-old girl with congenital rubella who had type A blood that eventually switched to type O after weeks of testing. The scientists suspect an enzyme just “ate” the type A antigens, which made this little girl’s blood type appear to be type O:
An infant with probable congenital rubella infection developed altered blood group expression. This was noted at 4 months of age. The child’s blood was typed on seven separate occasions during the first 8 weeks of life as type A, but on repeat testing, her cells failed to agglutinate with anti-A and anti-A,B typing serum. The A antigen was present, however, because an eluate made after incubating her red cells with anti-A contained anti-A, and A antigen was demonstrated on buccal mucosa cells. Altered expression of blood group A (loss of agglutinability) has occurred previously only in association with hematologic malignancy.
This could explain also an rh positive person becoming rh negative, but not vice versa.
More to come …
I’m a B-, but I think corticosteroids might play a role in sugar on blood. I had never had a concern w/A1C until i became very ill (acute bronchitis, followed after antibiotic and steroids, A-fib. I have no hx of heart probs) in Mar/April 2016. My A1C after steroids was 7.2. January 2017, it was 5.9, and my BS is back to prediabetic.
Can it also be that Negs are more sensitive to steroids and should avoid them?