Blood Donation page 6

[bionicsamm]

Paleobird, by your argument for pathogens, the US should be good with madcow, HIV and Hep. The US blood supply has infected and killed more people than any other blood supply. Canada is almost as bad.

Given the immunization requirements for my job, starting a campaign for blood donation would be useless as I've already explained, the Canadian blood services deems our blood useless and destroys it.

I'll stick to saving lives for my day job and someone else can do the blood donation

[vishnuns39620]

I'm about to go give some blood in the next hour! This will be my first donation since going primal in Dec'2012. As is the norm nowadays, I usually look up " 'activity im doing' + marks daily apple" on Google to see if its been discussed before & I've never been disappointed!

Great to find this little thread lurking here on MDA! Wish you all a happy Spring/Summer 2013 !

Regards,
Vishnu

[BigChris]

No help for me


At this time, the American Red Cross donor eligibility rules related to vCJD (mad cow)are as follows:

You are not eligible to donate if:

From January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1996, you spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of 3 months or more, in the United Kingdom (UK), or
From January 1, 1980, to present, you had a blood transfusion in any country(ies) in the (UK) or France. The UK includes any of the countries listed below.

•Channel Islands
•England
•Falkland Islands
•Gibraltar
•Isle of Man
•Northern Ireland
•Scotland
•Wales
Eligibility Criteria by Alphabetical Listing | American Red Cross

[serenity]

I used to give blood every two months, but that was before I started working out. Since I started working out all the time, I've donated once. I haven't done it again because it really affected my workouts. It took me 10 days to 2 weeks to recover. I feel bad about not giving blood though. It's like, oh, I could save some lives, but my workouts will be harder for 2 weeks so I guess I'm not going to. Perhaps if I ate more liver I would recover more quickly?

[awok677]

I give regularly (every 4 months) in the UK, and have only ever once been turned down - because they supposedly had run out of the correct needles to do a proper iron check. (when I was eating too many carbs and processed crap, my blood would float in the test tube) In fact they'd been a bit leery of my acne to start with and had asked if I had chicken pox. They then told me that as they hadn't been able to test the iron levels they couldn't take it. I said fine, I'd go to the neighbouring town when they were there in a few weeks. No, I couldn't do that, because I'd been turned down and would have to wait 8 months now until they'd call me again.

I did make a complaint because every time my blood has floated or not dropped in the prescribed time, it's always been fine on iron when checked in the light meter. I can see waiting if your iron is actually low, but their log shows 0mgHb for that session, so I should have been dead ... or a vampire , and I was happy to donate at the next session even. Turns out the log of the donation session had no record of running out of the required needles and in fact showed they still had plenty in stock. So I'm pretty sure they just decided my bad flare-up of acne was something I was lying about and yes, that did annoy me.