when you donate blood thet test for hiv, syphilis, hepatitis b and c. as far as prescription drugs you have taken depends what they are. not much good giving someone a unit of blood that contains a blood thinning drug if there bleeding. thats why you cannot take asprin before you donate blood.
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Quote by JonJon
..... And of course you get a free AIDS check without looking like thats what you're doing
(although i've only ever had unprotected sex with my current partner, and thats cos he was irresistable!)
No, actually, you don't
HIV tests are (usually - there are circumstances where this varies) taken twice, with a three month interval, since infection in the three months prior to the first test may not have produced a sufficient viral load to be detected.
Just answer the questions honestly. If they don't want you, they don't want you, the purpose of the process is to benefit other people, not risk exposing them to HIV (still relatively unlikely) or Hepatitis (alarmingly common).
^Edit - like what daffodil said
Whooah, easy tiger - i was being flippant - like i said, i've had very little unprotected sex and my giving blood was well before my current partner. Anyone who wants to be certain re HIV should go to a GUM clinic. Which i have dones since, as i reckon everyone should, for peace of mind. :P
I've given blood a few times, and intend to carry on. Unless i get involved in any activity that rules me out. No matter how many times i go, i always feel a bit nervous of that needle going in. Especially so when a nurse comes over and says 'I'm in training, mind if i have a go on you'. B Rheus + and on the bone marrow register - though i'd be sh*tting myself if i actually got a call for bone marrow! (they either open you up, or pump you up with drugs to generate more marrow - neither is an attractive option eh!)
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Quote by Marya
I used to give blood regularly and then went onto donating plasma ... used to go every 4-5 weeks because of my blood group - 'A' Rhesus Negative (only 16% of the population have Rh Neg blood)
I had to give up because of high blood pressure a few years ago
Lucy
(managed to give the equivalent of 70 pints of blood tho)
Can you tell me about that? What do they do, what's involved?
Same questions to anyone who has donated bone marrow. I thought about it but I hear its really painful and that's not my thing at all
well marya, when they take plasma, they spin it into a centrifuge to split the plasma from the red cells, then pump the red cells back in to you. cos plasma regenerates quicker than red cells, you can give it every 3 months instead of every six, and it's more useful for burns etc. it's no worse than giving ordinary blood, and your arm just feels a bit cold and tingly when they pump it back in.
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Whooah, easy tiger
Sorry, didn't pick up on the sarcasm
Unfortunately there really are people who actually believe that using donation to get tested is reasonable
I'm an platelet apheresis donor (the process Neil described - but for platelets, rather than plasma) and have donated stem cells via PBSC
From what I remember (I don't give anymore) women can give if they had sex with a man who had sex with a man if it was more than a year ago. Men who have had sex with a man can never give. Then again it been a long time...
Me I don't give as it makes me feel really ill. Nothing to do with needles n stuff, nor blood, just my bodies reaction to the fluid loss. Weird really, given my size it should have no real impact, but it does. So not been for a while.
Having said that the process is pretty painless, we talking a small sting, not pain anyway. So anyone nervous should give it a shot if they meet the criteria. Think the blood service could have more luck if they were not as rude to those giving, and tried being open at hours when those of us who work could get there... Again that only based on my experience, I am sure there are a lot of good units out there, but the 5 times I gave were not pleasant re attitude of staff.
Me I don't give as it makes me feel really ill. Nothing to do with needles n stuff, nor blood, just my bodies reaction to the fluid loss. Weird really, given my size it should have no real impact, but it does. So not been for a while.
Having said that the process is pretty painless, we talking a small sting, not pain anyway. So anyone nervous should give it a shot if they meet the criteria. Think the blood service could have more luck if they were not as rude to those giving, and tried being open at hours when those of us who work could get there... Again that only based on my experience, I am sure there are a lot of good units out there, but the 5 times I gave were not pleasant re attitude of staff.
