When can you donate blood?
Men can donate blood once in three months; Women can donate once in four
months.
Who can donate
blood?
§ If you are aged between 18 and 60, you can donate blood, irrespective of
your gender.
§ Your body should not weigh less than 45 kg.
§ Your haemoglobin level should be normal – that is, 12.5 gm/cent.
§ Blood pressure must be under check. If you are not aware of your
blood pressure, don’t worry. At the camps they quickly check whether the blood
pressure is at the aceptable level.
§ If you even have the slightest doubt that you are infected by Hepatitis,
HIV, AIDS or any other venereal disease, you should not donate blood.
§ If you have suffered from diarrhea, jaundice, malaria, dengue, donate blood
after a gap of six months, only when you completely recover.
§ If you have swollen glands, persistent coughs, transfused blood or have had
a any major surgery or dental extraction, you need to take doctor’s advice
before donating blood.
§ If you have tattoos imprinted recently, or have used drugs like cocaine and
ganja (drugs that are prohibited by Indian Law) doctors recommend you to take a
gap of six months. This is because, if the needles / syringes used are not
clean enough, you have the chances of contracting HIV which would be detected
only after a few months.
§ If you have been vaccinated for Cholera, Typhoid, Diptheria, Tetanus or
plague or taken a Gamma Globulin shot within last 15 days, you should not
donate blood.
§ An interval of a year is recommended in case you have undergone a major or
minor surgery, or you or your close relatives have suffered from typhoid,
jaundice, chickangunya fever, rabies vaccine or hepatitis.
§ If it has been five years since your recovery from cancer and have
completed your treatment, then you can donate blood provided you show you are
medically fit.
Who should not
donate?
§ People suffering from serious ailments should completely refrain themselves
from donating blood. These include heart, lung, liver, kidney (Chronic
Nephritis), allergic and sexuallly transmitted disease, any type of cancer,
tuberculosis, epilepsy, asthma, schizophrenia or endocrine disorder, abnormal
bleeding, fainting spells and leprosy or diabetic patients under the control of
insulin should not donate blood.
§ People who have history of various types of cancers such as leukaemia ,
myeloma, lymphoma cannot donate blood.
§ People who frequent sex workers or those having multiple sex partners
should maintain a gap of six months without having sex, again because of
chances of contracting venereal diseases.
§ Persons with single sex partners (married men/women who don’t resort to
unsafe sex practices can donate blood.
When shouldn’t
women donate blood
§ When they have low level of haemoglobin
§ When they are underweight
§ When they are pregnant
§ When they are breastfeeding the baby and baby isn’t weaned out
§ A minimum wait of 10 days is advised after menstrual period, before
donating blood, as body loses high amount of blood and weight during those
days.
Once you know that you are eligible to donate blood, here are a few precautions
to be taken before and after donating blood.
Regards
Jc Dr A Tamizha Karthic
Zone Trainer
ZC, Need Blood Call Jaycees
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