Who should not donate Blood?
• People who are suffering form any illness and are not in good health, any one under the influence of alcohol or any one taking drugs.
• Ladies during mensuration, pregnancy, breast-feeding and 6 months after delivery,
• A person having any lesion/injection scar at the puncture site (indication of drug addiction or professional blood seller).
• Persons wh
o are immunised with live vaccines are debarred for 4 weeks.
• Within 3 months after treatement for infection with malaria.
• Within 3 days after takin aspirin.
• Donors who have received blood components during preceding 3 months.
• Within 6 months after any major operation and 3months after minor operations.
• Anyone positive for HIV/Jaundice/s*xually transmitted diseases. "ME, YOU & WE"
• Any healthy person of either s*x between the ages 18 to 60.
• Men can donate once in 3 months and women once in 4 months.
• The donor should have body weight of more than 45 kgs.
• The haemoglobin content should be above 12.5 gms/dl.
• The systolic blood pressure should be between 100 and 140 mm of mercury and then diastolic pressure should be between 70 to 100 mm of mercury.
• A person has about 65-80 ml of blood per kg of their body weight and can safely donate 6-8ml of blood/kg.
• It will not hurt more than a prick of an injection needle.
• It will not take more than 20 minutes to donate blood including the time required for recuperation of donated blood.
