Can you donate an organ ifyou smoke or have smoked, please be desciptive or tell a website that will answer?
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Yes, you can. My mother smoked most of her life and died of heart disease. They could use her skin and eyes and some bone, and I donated them. She was older, so most of the other organs weren't good for donation.
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wedmd.com has some links that should help you. Just type in secondhand smoke and tasting in the search engine.
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Testicles are like kidneys we only need one.  You may be able to arrange something third party but as far as i know organ sale in this country is illegal.
768226
I've become an organ donor and I think it's a worthwhile cause! I think you're doing a wonderful thing and this will save hundreds of lives! Here is a website where you can get information on becoming a donor.\nhttp://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/how_to_become_a_donor.jsp\nGood luck! I hope you're successful
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the question is How addicted are you? I gave up by reading the book How to stop smoking and stay stopped for good by Gillian Riley. I went to the smoking cessation clinic who prescribed me patches and lozenges. It was hard, i know someone who could stop for days at a time yet couldnt completely give up! It is hard yet its well worth it and four years down the line i can have a fag every 6 months yet its just not the same, yet im £1000 a year better off and i dont cough and wheeze in the morning and the numb feeling in my toes has come back. My ex is looking at having his legs amputated as the blood flow and oxygen dosnt reach his toes, still he smokes. the sooner you give up the better. if i can do it you can too!
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You forgot the parallel question: "If an organ donor lusts in his heart, will he be able to go to heaven by giving his sinful heart to someone else?"\n\nRaw deal for the recipient, I think. ;)\n\nI also wonder, what happens if my spleen is sinful but my appendix is a decent sort of organ? Does my spleen go to hell, while the rest of me goes to heaven?
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Check it out... I can answer seriously...\n\nI gave my kidney away to a friend 8 or 9 years ago. Honest and no joke. Our tissue matches up like brothers and he has not had an issue with rejection. My kidney dr. is all pissed at me though for not drinking enough water through the day... kidney stones and all...\n\n I have often wondered about the tissue though. What is the DNA of the grafting and connecting tissue from my old kidney to his body anyway?\n\n I won't even go into the spiritual side of it... Yes the Bearded One has a spiritual side...\n\n I'm watching this question though. Nice to know I'm not the only one who has thought about this...\n\nIf you ever want to give up a kidney however, Swedish Med on the hill in Seattle is THE BEST!!!\n\n The actually made me a steak, Rare! AT 4:AM!!!\n\nI also proposed to a nurse while in the morph drip... that was fun.\nGetting the cath out was a pain...\n\n But I'd do it again.
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There is a problem with organ donations: the donated organ has a different genetic structure to the recipient's. As a result the recipient's immune system will attack it as an infection if it relaises it is there. People who receive organ donations are given drugs that supress their immune system to prevent the body from realising that there is a foreign organ in them and attacking it.\n\nUnfortunately the same ability to recognise foreign tissue is used by the immune system to recognise and destroy cancerous growths. Because cancer results from mutations and has a different genetic structure to normal cells it is also often recognised as 'foreign' by the body, and destoryed.\n\nSince organ recipients are on drugs that prevent the body from recognising and destroying foreign material they are also prevented form atatcking and destroying cancers. As a result orgasn recipients develop more cancers and they tend to grow faster than in other people.
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If you hadn't added all the additional details....  Aye.\n\nAnyway!\n\nThis is a very good question, and goes along with mine about why it's okay to let patients and visitors smoke on hospital grounds.  It's NOT okay. \n\nPeace.
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I reccomend visiting the American Lung Association. Their web site link is below. There is a wealth of information and there is a link and phone number to e-mail or call questions to a health professional. I hope this helps. If you need more advice or support, I've been smoking since I was fifteen and am going to quit for good in a few weeks. Good luck. :^)\n\nhttp://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22940
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lung transplant these days are very succesful but carries the risk of rejection nevertheless, and the possibility that the CF will reattack the new lungs and eventually make them like the original.   \n\nbut your question actually involves more than how long one is on "the list".  there are multiple transplant patients, well over a few hundred thousand, many of whom are at the top of the list.  there are only a few donors throughtout the country depending on a variety of issues as to whether or not they would make good donors for your nephew.  of course tissue matching and rejection possibilities play a big part in the selection, as does age, priority of illness, organ itself, staff availability, and a few other key issues.  survivability is another factor which is looked at and can sway the decision as to whether one patient or the other gets the organ.\n\nit can be overwhelming.  there are also many success stories where out of the blue you recieve a call because "bingo" everything matches your nephews need.  so dont despair, the odds are better than the lotto but in general can be hard to win.  \n\non a different note but relative to CF; there are many fine advances in the contol and treatment of CF.  gene therapy, dna alteration, and similar biotech approaches are also available and should be considered, they have their successes too.  \n\nlastly understand that CF is not a primary respiratory problem; it is secondary.  CF is a metabolic disease with respiratory involvement.  CF patients are prone to many recurring lung infections like pneumonia but not limited to pneumonia.\n\ngood luck.
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It would depend on how they are executed.\nMany states use lethan injecttion in which chemicals are injected into the person.  These chemicals, I believe, make the organs useless for transplant.  Electricution probably isnt too good either for the organs.\nHowever being shot would leave many of the vital organs instact (not the heart), in theory [they could miss].  There is only one [maybe two?] states that still use a firing sqaud however.
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You can if you wan't to, but believe me it is best not to smoke, this could cause an infecton
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Sell one of your organs
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Sometimes a donated organ just doesn't work and you'll never know the reason.  It might not have been as healthy a kidney as thought before transplant, or it could have degenerated during transport, or your blood vessels could not adequately supply the new kidney with the needed blood within the proper time to keep the new kidney healthy....or...or...or.  Ask your physician why, because there are several possibilities and all we can do is guess. \n\nAre you a diabetic by any chance?
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Hi my son had two bone grafts due to a need for bone growth and the surgeons all recommended not smoking. You should talk to the surgeon that did the surgery as he or she would be best equipped to answer that question.......
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Please visit the sites\nhttp://www.transplant.cc\nhttp://www.transplantation.cc