… donate bone marrow to save a life.<\/p>\n
People with coeliac disease may not donate their bone marrow to help people with leukemia who need a bone marrow transplant. <\/p>\n
I’d never thought about it before, but I suppose it makes sense, since coeliac disease is an auto-immune problem. You’d hardly want to donate another problem to someone so seriously ill!<\/p>\n
But your friends may be able to donate. Ask them if they’d consider joining the register of bone marrow donors. There may not ever be a match – but if someone did match them, they could save a life. <\/p>\n
Visit the Anthony Nolan Trust<\/a> site for more information. If you’re in America, visit the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can give blood, though …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … donate bone marrow to save a life. People with coeliac disease may not donate their bone marrow to help people with leukemia who need a bone marrow transplant. I’d never thought about it before, but I suppose it makes sense, since coeliac disease is an auto-immune problem. You’d hardly want to donate another problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}