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Blood from donors who snacked on peanuts apparently triggered a life-threatening reaction in a 6-year-old boy with a severe food allergy, researchers report.

The case study, believed to be the first of its kind, raises questions about whether allergens are transmitted by blood more often than anyone thinks. It's published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

“It is possible that allergens transferred in blood products to other patients have led to reactions that have gone unexplained and unreported,” wrote lead author Dr. Joannes F.M. Jacobs of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Read more here: http://www.peanutallergy.com/boards/general-discussion/main-discussion-board/peanut-traces-in-blood

I don't know the answer but I'm answering anyway to keep your question up on top. What a good question and an important question. 

Colleen

No, since you answered, the bump button will no longer show for winkles. The bump button is only for questions that never received an answer.

It's a good question. I never thought about that.

I wonder if winkles got that? 

I am sure the Blood Bank would be well aware of it.

What time is it where you are? It’s 3 AM.  I am not  a good sleeper. 

If you had jaundice or any sexual transmitted diesease you are not allowed to give blood in England so they know things can be passed on did Paul Micheal Glasiers wife not catch H. I .V from a transfusion of blood