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BLOOD DONATION

BLOOD DONATION

A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole-blood components).

• Every three minutes there is someone around the world needs blood transfusion.

• One of ten patients in the hospital needs blood transfusion.

• Your blood can save four people if its fractionated.

Before to go to donate:

• Get enough sleep at the night of the donation.

• Eat a balanced meal. Before donating about two hours.

• You must drink fluids (caffeine-free) a little more than usual.

Donated blood is tested by many methods, but the core tests recommended by the World Health Organization are these four:

• Hepatitis B Surface Antigen

• Antibody to Hepatitis C

• Antibody to HIV, usually subtypes 1 and 2

• Serologic test for Syphilis

• Donate blood during the past three months

• All types of anemia other than iron deficiency anemia.

• Heart disease and rheumatic fever.

• Chronic respiratory diseases.• Chronic hypertension.• Viral hepatitis.• Diabetes mellitus.• Cases of enlarged liver.• Cases of kidney failure.

• Convulsions cases epilepsy and frequent fainting.

• Increase or decrease the thyroid gland secretions.

• Pregnancy.• Bleeding disease.• Genetic diseases.• Mental illness.• Any surgical operations during

the three-month period.• Unexpected loss of weight

and loss of appetite.• Night sweating. Night

fever.

• All injured in accidents • Cases of bleeding before and after birth.• Large operations.• Premature infants • Newborn to the different Rhesus factor the

parents.• Thalassemia sickle cell anemia or leukemia

patients.• Tumor patients, nuclear medicine and

bloody vomiting, patients with liver and kidney dialysis, burns and endemic diseases.

Blood donation is not a dangerous process; the donor may need to drink

more liquids in the next hours after donation. Smoking and drinking alcohol

is forbidden in the next 2 hours after donation. The donor will need to take

enough time of rest.

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