A Blood donor

YES. Communicable Diseases are a big issue in today's society and the CDC (Center for Disease Control) has regulation on this. By law they need to contact you. Whether they do it right away or wait a day or two is up to them but you will be contacted.

Too many red blood cells can clog up your blood vessels because they get too crowded. Also, since red blood cells contain iron, you can get too much iron, which is not good for you either.

The country's blood supply is donated by about eight million people, representing a broad cross section of the population, although fewer than 5% of those eligible donate.

The global answer is no, you can't donate blood for at least 6 months, in some places you cant donate for up to a year post piercing.

Yes. Blood loss does lower blood pressure.

Since your blood pressure is the force of blood against your veins, capillaries, and arteries if you have a lower blood amount the force would decrease. Therefore, causing your blood pressure to lower.

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I'm not sure if this is the case in the US, but in Canada they only test for communicable diseases, low iron levels, etc. They do not care whether or not you have taken recreational drugs. Drug use does not affect the blood you are donating in any negative manner and there is no good reason for them to test for drug use at all.

It should be noted however, that if you have taken any drugs by needle, then you cannot give blood for a period of time (I think a year or two). They will ask you this beforehand along with anything else that may compromise your donation, so you don't need to worry about being tested for anything else.

Also, if for whatever reason you are embarrassed or unable to truthfully answer no to any of the questions (possibly a stern parent watching you give blood), you can continue with your donation, but choose to label the sample (in private) to be discarded. This is done by choosing one of two stickers, each with a bar code, so nobody in the testing area will know which you chose; it will be read later off-site.

So basically no, you do not need to worry about being tested for drugs.

However, you should be aware that people taking certain prescribed drugs cannot give blood to begin with - for example, those on antiretrovirals, immunosuppressives, or anticoagulants, to name but a few.

Blood collection facilities will not collect a volunteer blood donation from potential blood donors who smell of alcohol or appear to be intoxicated. This has nothing to do with the ETOH in the blood; the amounts present will have no effect on the recipient. Rather, the alcohol, along with red cell and blood volume loss, increase the risk of a donor reaction, such as fainting, nausea, vomiting, etc.

If your circumstances change, you can cancel at anytime by calling 800-655-1900.

Following whole blood donation, approximately 40% of plasma separated during processing is used to produce Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) or Plasma-24 for patient use, 10% is used to produce Cryoprecipitate (Cryo) and the remaining 50% is sent to manufacturers for the production of plasma derivatives, such as IVIg, Albumin, Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin, RHoGam, etc.

Red cells are seperated from a blood donation for their use in hemophillic patients

Yup, you can! If you type in your question on GOOGLE it will give you a deffinite more proof on the "Can I Donate If..." page. Hope it helps!

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no. opiates will harm the recepients consciusness

yes , they can also donate their blood they have allthe right to donate their blood.

because it is unhealthy .

no,you would not be able to give blood after having a spleenectomy,besides the surgery you are already compromised without the spleen and don't need to decrease your white cells,used to fight infection even though they they will increase again,don't take the risk.

A person who has type O blood is called a universal donor which means you can donate blood to anybody no matter what their blood type is. The only thing is a person with o Type blood can only receive O type blood and nothing else. I worked in a ER and if the patient needed a blood transfusion and we didn't know what blood type he was we always gave type O blood.

If you have any form of contagious and/or infectious disease, you cannot donate blood until you have absolutely no trace of the disease in your system.

No you are not supposed to donate blood while on methotrexate as it causes birth defects and could cause a birth defect for unborn children If given to pregnant mothers. It is not on the exclusion list for the Red Cross because in asking them the list of medications that exclude donating would be too long and your doctor should inform you of the risks when you start these medications.

Christians views on blood transfusions are that the bible does not say whether its right or not but they believe that if there are 4 blood types then maybe its suggesting that God would want us to give and receive blood to those who need it.

The invention of the blood bank was a huge development for medicine. Having blood in a person's body is vital to survival, and when a person loses blood they are at risk for death. Being able to have sterile, safe blood for people who have been injured, need surgery, or are ill and have suffered blood loss means the medical community has many more options for treating patients.