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Several adverse reactions to blood transfusion can occur despite checking, inspecting and testing at several levels. Fortunately, the common adverse reactions to blood transfusion are minor and serious reactions occur very rarely if ever. If any adverse reaction is suspected, the blood transfusion should be stopped immediately and reported to blood bank for investigation.

Commonly two types of adverse reactions to blood transfusion are seen, (1) immune mediated adverse reactions and (2) non immunologic adverse reactions. Complications due to infectious organisms may also occur in blood transfusion.

What are the immune mediated adverse reactions to blood transfusion?

The immune mediated adverse reactions to blood transfusion are FNHTR or febrile non hemolytic transfusion reaction (occurs 1-4 out of 100 units of blood transfusions or 1-4:100),

Jet lag is a fairly common problem among people who undertake international travel, especially transmeridean travel. Jet lag is not seen if the journey does not involve transmeridean travel, even if journey is of several hours duration, e.g. traveling from London to Cape Town, a 7 hours journey.

What is jet lag?

The medical term of jet lag is “desynchronosis”. Jet lag is a condition due to alteration of normal cicardian rhythm of sleep by transmeridian air travel and there is disturbance in sleep, tiredness etc. Jet lag occurs due to transmeridian (east-west or west-east) air travel. More than 75 million people undertake transmeridian air travel annually and many of them experience jet lag.