BLOOD DONATING TIPS

BLOOD DONATING TIPS FOR BLOOD DONATION:

Tips :-

Please have a good meal at least 3 hours before donating blood.

Please accept the snacks offered to you after the donation, it is vital you have them. You are recommended to have a good meal later.

Please avoid smoking on the day before donating. You can smoke 3 hours after donation.

You will not be eligible to donate blood if you have consumed alcohol 48 hours before donation.

Get a Good Nights sleep,

Drink extra water and fluids toreplace the volume you donate (avoid tea, coffee or other beverages with caffeine) Eat iron rich food & avoid fatty foods.

Do not donate blood if you have any of these conditions:

 (BE AWARE   FOR BLOOD DONATING)

1. Malaria (within 1 year)
2. Hepatitis B, C
3. Any other type of Jaundice (within 16 years)
4. Aids
5. Tuberculosis
6. Diabetes (are you under medication currently?)
7. Fits/Convulsions (are you under medication currently?)
8. cancer
9. Leprosy or any other infectious diseases
10. Any allergies (only if you are suffering from severe symptoms)
11. Hemophilia/Bleeding problems
12. Kidney disease
13. Heart disease
14. Chicken Pox 9 (within 1 year)
15. Hormonal disorders
16. Hemoglobin deficiency / Anemia (recently)
17. Drastic weight loss (recently)
18. Small Pox Vaccination (within the last 3 weeks)
19. Blood Donation (within the last 3 months)
20. Blood Transfusion (within the last 6 months)
21. Major Surgery (within the last 3 months)
22. Pregnancy (within the last 6 months)
23. Organ Transplant (within one year )                        

BLOOD DONATION

"WHO CAN OR CAN'T DONATE BLOOD?"

Let others benefit from your good health..!

Do donate blood if…..

(very important for blood donation)

• you are between age group of 18-60 years.
• Your weight is 45 kgs or more.
• Your hemoglobin is 12.5 gm% minimum.
• Your last blood donation was 3 months earlier.
• You are healthy and have not suffered from malaria, typhoid or other transmissible disease in the recent past.

There are many, many people who meet these parameter of health and fitness!

Do abide by our rules-be truthful about your health status!

We ensure health of blood, before we take it, as well as after it is collected. 

Firstly, the donor is expected to be honest about his or her health history and current condition. Secondly, collected blood is tested for venereal diseases, hepatitis B & C and AIDS.

You have to be healthy to give “safe blood”

(SO, BE AWARE   FOR BLOOD DONATION)

ABOUT BLOOD

SOME TALKING ABOUT BLOOD:

 A negative blood

Always in demand, group a makes your donations vital 7% of the population, you included, have blood group A Rh negative. 35% of the population, have blood group A Rh positive. That makes a combined total of 42% of the population having blood group A. of all the people needing blood at any given time, Group A will be needed by almost half of them. And because stocks only last a limited time, this makes it important that you continue to give on a regular basis.

We can guarantee that your blood will make an amazing difference. Whether it’s used to treat patients in an emergency, or in cancer treatment and in planned operations like hip replacement, or to help a mother and baby in childbirth, it could be the difference between life and death.

You can give blood three times a year. So we hope you’ll make doing something amazing a regular habit.

B Positive Blood

You’re brilliant….we need you to stay that way Group B positive blood is extremely valuable – less than 8% of the population possess this particular group. Matching supply to demand is constant challenge – we rarely have more than a few day supply of B positive in stock.

B negative blood 

You’re brilliant…..we need you to stay that way

Because your blood group is B Rh negative, you are immensely important to our lifesaving work. Fewer that two out of every hundred in the Bangladesh share your blood type.

Since your blood group is so rare, it’s very hard to collect, and even harder to make sure we always have enough, so we always need more.

And whether its used for planned operations like a hip replacement, in an emergency, or for cancer treatment, you can be absolutely certain that your blood is helping to save lives.

As your blood is so special it’s vital that you give blood three times a year, so please be sure to keep up your brilliant efforts. Three times every year, your blood could be the difference between life and death.

AB Positive Blood

You’re brilliant…we need you to stay that way Blood group AB positive blood is very valuable – less than 3% of the population possess this particular group.

Many people require blood, whether its used for planned operations, in an emergency or for people suffering conditions which require regular blood transfusions such as thalassaemia, leukaemia and those undergoin chemotherapy for cancer, they all need closely matched blood. If they have a rarer group, we do sometimes struggle to get a perfect match for them You can give blood three times a year, so please keep up your absolutely brilliant effort.

AB Negative Blood

You’re brilliant…we need you to stay that way Group AB negative blood is needed for the manufacture of Plasma – a rich ‘soup’ of essential proteins – plasma is separated from red blood cells and frozen when fresh. Less than 1% of the population possess AB negative blood.