Blood Transfusion, a way to cure infection?
So, I was thinking about this the other night.
****SPOILERS AHEAD ABOUT EPISODE 4!****
Lee did not cut his hand right after being bitten, so the infection must have spread to his entire body already.
The only way I see him surviving this is if someone found him, cut his hand (it would continue to spread the infection otherwise), then make a blood transfusion to clear his body.
Of course it would require a set number of transfusions to make sure his blood was clear. But it could be possible.
It would be a perfect way to end this season in my opinion.
What do you guys think about this? Finally a way to save Lee?
I don't see Telltale doing this though, too late for new ideas.
If I only new he was going to get bitten before the game was released. Hahahahaha.
****SPOILERS AHEAD ABOUT EPISODE 4!****
Lee did not cut his hand right after being bitten, so the infection must have spread to his entire body already.
The only way I see him surviving this is if someone found him, cut his hand (it would continue to spread the infection otherwise), then make a blood transfusion to clear his body.
Of course it would require a set number of transfusions to make sure his blood was clear. But it could be possible.
It would be a perfect way to end this season in my opinion.
What do you guys think about this? Finally a way to save Lee?
I don't see Telltale doing this though, too late for new ideas.
If I only new he was going to get bitten before the game was released. Hahahahaha.
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY~!!!!
First,according to Survival Guide the reason why people turn into zombies is infection of zombie Virus
Next,therefore we need to kill every single zombie virus in Lee's body,but how?
Third,any kind of virus will die when entering an intense environment,like high temperature or pressure
Fourth,let's just pump Lee's blood into a heat mechanism so as to kill all the virus
Fifth,processed blood is too hot to reenter body,so a cooler mechanism is needed to let the blood back to human's normal temperature
Sixth,pump back these blood
Seventh,as zombie virus can't be killed at one time,the procedure need to be repeated 3-5 times
Last,hopefully this will work!!
Exactly. This will never happen. Episode 5 eill most likely be all about finding clementine, lee knows he's fucked and just wants to get Clemmy safe before he dies. We won't spend a whole week trying to find the equipment to save lee.
Or Lee becomes a zombie and stands around in a street for half a hour before eating a bird.
Who in the current group is qualified to administer such a treatment? (Remember that Vernon has dissapeared)
With what equipment are they going to administer this treatment with?
With whose blood are they going to replace Lee's with? (do we even know if anyone in the group has his blood type?)
How will the above three be accomplished within the day or so it will take Lee to die from the bite?
See, here are people with their "logic" and "reasoning" shitting on the most brilliant idea in forever. Seriously. But don't listen to them.
That would seem right but everyone just yells about the infection spreading fast and its already past his arm. Would have been cool for him to cut off his arm and maybe get a robot(full metal alchemist style
At this point, it would be a total cop-out if Lee somehow survives, IMHO.
The disease isn't like rot or gangrene that spreads from an area and can be amputated. At least it doesn't seem that way, based on how people seem to grow weak and die with their bodies otherwise intact. It's not like people have parts of their body zombify while they're still alive. Pretty much their arms and legs work up until they die, so the flesh isn't targeted by the disease.
If the disease gets in the bloodstream, it should be too late. Maybe someone who has their arm attached but the blood cut off before the bite happens could survive by immediate amputation, but that's about it. If the blood is moving normally, there's no way to amputate fast enough.
Actually, I still think there's going to be a Back to the Future crossover.
Think about it.
Episode 5 of The Walking Dead is "No Time Left".
Episode 5 of Back to the Future is "Outatime".
It's pretty obvious, people.
i as thinking a Jurassic park and back to the future crossover
the fuck does this even mean?
youre going to "clear his body" by taking out the "infected blood"?
if you believe that, you belong in the 18th century when blood letting was considered an effective treatment for almost everything
if you bleed any % of blood, the infection will continue to spread
the theory that letting blood will allow for strong healthy blood to replace it was debunked over 100 years ago
No, it will totally work.
it will only work with the blood of a virgin born on a Sunday
Clem! They'll rescue her and use her blood. Or Ben is an option if you saved him.
oh my god
THAT'S TOTALLY GOING TO HAPPEN
Know any Libyan terrorists?
CLEM?!
well it's only specific to the virgin born on a Sunday
lawls! And I said the exact same thing! OMG! We're like two peas in a pod!
But seriously, can you guys expect a dipsh*t like Kenny or Ben to know it? Or Omid and Krista?
Clementine, probably not.
With the doctor guy gone doing some really mysterious/suspicious stuff, I'm not even sure who we'd have to perform one.
As long as we're having this convo, how many people here know their blood type?
No but ttg have the Back to the Future rights to make it happen so they may have what you need, cross over anyone?
I was reading about blood and how it worked just yesterday. I'll explain how blood works, just because of reasons.
Blood cells can have different *marks*, this marks are called A, B, AB and O. There is also a Rh factor, which can be positive (existent) or negative (non-existent). A marker's function is, basically, telling our body to create antibodies which will eliminate blood with the opposite marker, it works like this:
A - The body will produce antibodies B.
B - The body will produce antibodies A.
AB - The body will produce no antibodies at all.
O - The body will produce both A and B antibodies.
Now, to get a blood transfusion, you mist make sure that your blood won't destroy the blood that enters your body, you got to get the blood of your type in order to get a transfusion.
A- - will just take A- blood.
B- - will just take B- blood.
AB- - will take A-, B- and AB- blood.
A+ - will just take A(-/+) blood.
B+ - will just take B(-/+) blood.
O+ - will just take O(-/+) blood.
Finally, we got two more groups, O- and AB+.
O- - Every other group will take it, but it just takes blood of its same group.
AB+ - No other group will take it, but it takes all other blood groups.
Well... Huge wall of text is huge. I just wanted to say that a blood transfusion wouldn't be something easy to do. First of all, you need the medical equipment, and then, the appropriate Donor with the appropiate Blood group. I doubt someone I our Group knows their blood group, anyway... And yes, I know my blood type, it's O+ .^.
MY GOD, you've figured it out. It's not like you need a doctor or anything. Or to find the machinery. Or luck out and assume that your contraption actually works. Or power to run the machinery. Or blood compatible with Lee's. Or to do all this in less than a day. I'm glad you saved Lee!!!
No, blood transfusions can't cure an infection. Even if your theory was possible, they wouldn't have a way to type and crossmatch the donor blood for compatability, so he'd probably die during the transfusion, and they likely wouldn't have enough blood to replace all of his blood (and even if they did, you can't siphon off all of someone's blood to replace it without killing them), so whatever blood was already in his body would simply contaminate the new blood you gave him. If they had read the comics, then they might try chopping his forearm off, but it's probably to late for that now.
LOL, don't hold back or anything, you wouldn't want him to miss the point you're trying to make
I find that being blunt is effective. Just wanted to make sure he understood the odds of all that stuff happening