Blood Drug Testing

Can you buy an at home Blood Type Test at your local stores or can you only get them on line?

My folks are both O+ so I know I must be O something. I just don't want to go to the doctor and pay too much for the test. Plus I freak out with needles, I know cuz I tried to go to a Blood Donation Center. I thought an at home test would be good. My husband is A- so I am worried about having kids.

Public Comments

1. YOU blood type and your husbands blood type does not affect your having children, or adversely affect their blood type. You DO need to know the RH factor (+ or -). Ask you doctor if he know your blood type. You may have already been typed through another test. but you are right, taking a blood test for typing ALONE is expensive if the doctor does it. I have not SEEN an at home test in the pharmacy, but you should ask the pharmacist. As for freaking out about needles -- If you are married and thinking about having kids, you need to finish growing up. You WILL get stuck MANY times through the rest of your life. It is almost certain that you will get blood tests from the doctors and the hospital when you get pregnant, and you may possibly get an IV depending on the complexity of your delivery. Andif needles bother you, DO NOT ask for a spinal block during delivery . . . . You best bet is to grow up, and learn that as an adult we ALL have to do things we don't want to do, or find distasteful. That is a part of life -- get over it.
2. My husband is O, I am A. We have reproduced without difficulty. Speak to your gynecologist about whether your fears are based in reality or not. If you have some kind of rh problem when pregnant, that can be treated, but it's not a common problem.
3. I found an ABO blood test kit that you can purchase online: http://www.healthhometest.com/product_info.php?cPath=30_62&products_id=70 It's about 10 bucks. If both your parents are O, then you are O. You could be Rh-negative, despite both your parents being positive, if both your parents are carrying the recessive gene. (A 25% chance of being Rh-negative if they are.) Rh-negative blood only matters when the mother is Rh-negative and one of the children is Rh-positive. For your purposes, only you need to test your blood type to find out whether you're Rh positive or negative. Good luck. :)