Donor
Donation - a noble and honorable mission that allows you to save the life of patients with severe chronic diseases and victims of burns, accidents and disasters. Donation useless symbolizes the idea of helping other people.
Besides moral satisfaction of knowing that you saved someone's life, blood donation brings physical benefits to our body.
This procedure trains the body, sending a signal to self-renewal. Stimulation of hematopoiesis leads to improved emotional state. Regular blood donation - a disease prevention cardiovascular disease and accumulation of harmful substances - atherosclerosis, gout, disorders of liver function.
The donor has a better chance of survival in case of accidents, as already adapted to blood loss.
If you follow the doctor's recommendations, the donation will not hurt you and will rescue many people.
How to donate?
Donor blood may be any person aged 18 years.
Before blood sampling donor must necessarily pass free medical examination that includes an overview of therapeutic and laboratory research.
The content in the blood, even small amounts of alcohol or nicotine can cause damage, because it poured weakened man. If the blood poured with impurities, such as child infancy, it will adversely affect the activity of the nervous and cardiovascular systems, the function of the endocrine glands. Therefore donor eve of the day when he will give blood shall not drink spirits and day blood donation and you can not smoke.
Smoking immediately after blood collection may harm the heart donor.
Contraindications donation
NEVER give blood to those ill with infectious illnesses such as malaria, hepatitis, brucellosis, tuberculosis, syphilis, is a carrier of HIV or suffering from AIDS. Can not be donors and patients with allergies. Bloodletting can adversely affect those who pidvyschynyy or low blood pressure, hemoglobin Mago, is a disease of the heart, lungs and other organs are also absolute contraindication cancer.
Temporary contraindications have different terms depending on the cause. The most common is tooth extraction (10 days), tattooing (1 year), sore throat, flu, SARS (1 month after recovery), monthly (5 days after completion), abortion or raising implant (6 months), during pregnancy and breastfeeding (1 year after birth, 3 months after the end of lactation), vaccination (10 days to 1 year depending on the type of vaccine), contact with patients with hepatitis (1 year).
What if you find the infection?
The main thing is what the donor must be sure a similar situation - that his health condition, he will be notified personally and confidentially. If the blood transfusion stations found that a particular donor is a carrier of infection, he immediately invited for re-analysis and conversation. The doctor will tell him which health - care institutions and to whom I should call it professional. Naturally, the mere presence of infections are not reported relatives of the donor and the place of work. It is also important to know that the blood transfusion stations these expensive tests are free for the donor with a high degree of reliability.
How to prepare for giving blood?
Do not plan this procedure just before competitions, exams, during an intense period of work.
The day before giving blood should not eat fatty, fried, smoked, spicy foods and milk, eggs and butter. It is better to drink sweet tea and jam, juices, fruit drinks, fruit drinks, mineral water and eat cereals, vegetables and fruits. Two days before the procedure is forbidden to take alcohol and 72 hours to take medicines that contain aspirin and painkillers.
Need to sleep well.
In the morning you must eat breakfast, and immediately before the procedure drink hot tea.
After blood donation ingredients following recommendations
- Immediately after the procedure relaxed sit for 10-15 minutes. If you feel weakness, ask the staff for help.
- Do not remove the bandage for 3-4 hours.
- Do not smoke for hours after giving blood.
- During the day avoid substantial exercise and abstain from alcohol.
- Follow a regular diet and fluid intake for at least two days.
- All medical manipulations (such as vaccinations, extractions, etc.) after the procedure can be carried out only with the permission of the doctor.
Remember that:
- For all manipulations on blood transfusion station uses only disposable medical products.
- Default volume of harvested blood (maximum allowable dose) - 450 ml, without blood taken for tests (40 mL).
- Standard volume harvested plasma (maximum allowable dose) - 600 ml, without blood taken for tests 9do 40 mL).
- The man can donate blood up to 5 times a year, a woman - no more than 4, pi
Information prepared by the Union hromadskyhyi organizations.
Some facts about blood donation
- The word "donor" comes from the Latin. donare - «present». Man, that requires transfusions and received donated blood, called the "recipient".
- As an adult, on average, 5.5 liters of blood at a time from the donor take only 350-450 ml.
- Blood Donor most famous in the world for his life to about 500 liters of blood for 624 times.
- Active donors are less likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases and easier to tolerate blood loss in accidents and other accidents. According to the World Health Organization, people who regularly give blood, live an average of five years longer than the average person because they are activated system hematopoiesis - cells of red bone marrow - and regular stimulation of immunity.
- In accordance with international standards, the country should be 40-60 donations per 1000 population. In Ukraine, the number of donations per 1000 population is 18.4 (the average in Europe - 25-27, in the US and Canada - 35-40).
- In the world annually produces more than 85 million krovodachi. About 35% of them in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, where about 75% of the population.
- donors may be 10-15% of the population, but real people who give blood ten times less.
- Every third inhabitant of the earth once in your life, but have to do transfusion of blood.
- For each recipient, on average, need three donors of whole blood.
- World Blood Donor Day - June 14.