Posted by Waterlily on September 13, 2001, at 15:34:34
In reply to Can I donate blood??, posted by Mair on September 11, 2001, at 21:58:19
I'm a medical technologist who works in a blood bank. You can most certainly donate blood while on those medications. Keep giving even after this crisis is over because the rest of the country needs blood too. We especially need platelet pheresis donors. During this donation your blood goes into a machine which separates out the platelets and gives you your red cells back. It takes a couple of hours, but it is needed because we need at least six units of platelets from a whole blood donation to transfuse an adult. With a pheresis platelet product an equivilant of 6 units of platelets is removed from at one time from a single donor. This reduces the number of donors the patient is exposed to.
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