This is But Why, podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public.

I'm Jane Lynn Tome.

In this show, we take questions from kids all over the world, and it's our job to give

you the information you're looking for.

Lately, we've been thinking about blood.

You sent us so many good and interesting blood questions for our last episode.

I hope you got a chance to listen to it.

Did you learn anything new?

Like, where our blood is made?

Spoiler alert, inside our bones.

Or how much blood you have inside your body right now?

There's one really cool thing about blood that we didn't talk about in the last episode.

We can share it with other people.

Scientists have figured out safe ways to take the blood from one person and put it into

another person.

But why would that other person need blood from someone else?

Well doctors use blood to help people who've been in accidents and to help treat people

with certain kinds of cancers, sickle cell disease, and other medical issues.

Doctors haven't figured out how to make blood and plasma in a lab, so the main way

to help someone who needs more blood is to get it from another person.

In the United States, an organization called the American Red Cross handles most blood donations.

That's taking the blood of the people who want to give some of it.

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