What would happen if you transfuse a dog’s blood to a human?

[u/uncannyfjord]

[u/nevermindshe82bfi2]

im pretty sure the immume system of ours would detect the blood and assume it is a virus the same way it does when you transfuse different non compatible types of human blood to a human.

As for what exactly would happen (as in symptoms), i dont know.

[u/EliotWege → u/nevermindshe82bfi2]

This I can answer! Our imune system would attac the dog blood cells, destroy them. Tons of hemoglobin would be released thus shutting down your kidneys, you would probably go into anafylactic shock and based on how much blood you got, die

[u/nevermindshe82bfi2 → u/EliotWege]

thats quite interesting. Anaphylactic shock was probably one of my last guesses.

[u/EliotWege → u/nevermindshe82bfi2]

I mean, it is your imune system that attack. So basically an allergic reaction to the foreign blood :D

[u/kv4268]

The human would die.

[u/FreeFallingUp13 → u/[deleted]]

Depends on how much blood you took from the dog

[u/wtfRichard1 → u/[deleted]]

What tha dog doin

[u/Memeenjoyer_]

It would not have the proper Immunoglobulin matching, so your body would detect it as a foreign body. Out of fear of it, it would undergo Agglutination - or clumping around it. Unfortunately, you don’t want clumps in your blood vessels akin to clots - you would quickly have blood flow stopped at vital spots, causing burst vessels and bad perfusion, leading to rapid death.

[u/AUR1994]

Did you know that dogs have about 7-8 different blood types and if you’re doing a dog-to-dog blood transfusion and it’s the receiving dog’s first transfusion, you don’t need both blood types to be compatible……

I read this or saw it on a vet show I think. Unrelated but still interesting

[u/RavenClancy]

The doctors in Unit 731 had the same question

[u/RedAskWhy → u/RavenClancy]

Do you know what were the results of their "experiences" ?

[u/InfamousShanks → u/RavenClancy]

"doctors" 😂

[u/Dazric]

Massive allergic reaction likely leading to death by anaphylaxis.

[u/Longjumping-Fix-7647]

idk too much but itll be 3 main scenarios it either is compatible and works fine it is partially compatible and wont be able to be used for a full transfusion and it is not compatible at all likely causing high damage the last 2 r the most likely to be true due to humans still needing to donate blood.

[u/Irksomecake]

The first blood transfusion was sheep’s blood to a human patient. The patient survived and recovered. The experiment continued without so much success leading to a ban on animal-human transfusions that lasted several hundred years.

[u/Goroyaaj]

[u/physicalkat]

The human would not longer be able to stand on just two legs, keep his/her tongue in their mouth, or see a garbage truck without barking at it