rhesus positive

However, this will only occur if your partner is rhesus positive.

The woman's body may reject a fetus if it has rhesus positive blood.

But all he said was: "I hope you're 0 group, Rhesus positive."

During the pregnancy or birth, small amounts of the baby's rhesus positive blood may cross over into the mothers bloodstream.

The problem arises when the mother is rhesus negative and her baby is rhesus positive.

Even higher disease rates would occur in the 3rd and subsequent Rhesus positive infants of rhesus negative woman.

Being rhesus positive means that the person has a substance called D-antigen on the surface of their red blood cells (this characteristic is inherited).

It is rhesus positive.

An injection of this immunoglobulin is given to the mother soon after the birth of a rhesus positive baby.

Most people (80 per cent) have rhesus positive blood; the remainder have rhesus negative.

If some rhesus positive blood leaks into her bloodstream, she will produce antibodies, which could attack her next baby making him anaemic.

In humans, for example, the mother is Rhesus negative and the fetus Rhesus positive (derived from the father).

My mother, through her tears: 'Both my husband and I, rhesus positive.'

This particularly occurs where a woman has a blood type which is rhesus negative, and where her partner is rhesus positive.

It acts by mopping up any of the baby's rhesus positive blood cells which have crossed into the mother, and destroying them before they sensitise her.

It is very rare for the first Rhesus positive baby of a Rhesus negative woman to be affected by Rh disease.

'Group A, rhesus positive.'

Hilda is blood type B Rhesus positive and my father is AB positive.

In Caucasian populations about 13% of Rhesus negative mothers are sensitized by their first pregnancy with a rhesus positive baby.

People who are rhesus positive have a compound called D antigen in their blood, while people who are rhesus negative don't.

In Caucasian populations about 1 in 10 of all pregnancies are of a Rhesus negative woman with a Rhesus positive baby.

The first pregnancy with a Rhesus positive baby is significant for a rhesus negative woman because she can be sensitized to the Rh positive antigen.

If this is the case then your unborn baby may have inherited its father's rhesus positive status and there'll be a mismatch between you and your baby's blood.

If the baby is rhesus positive and has the D antigen, then this triggers a reaction in the mother who'll start making antibodies to the D antigen.

Rhesus positive, in the fridge-- Hamish brought it with him today in case Mrs MacTadd does the dirty on us. "