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AcidArmitage:
i would donate blood if they gave it to the people that need it for free

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: AcidArmitage on May 16, 2010, 08:58:47 pm ---i would donate blood if they gave it to the people that need it for free

--- End quote ---

Problem is, someone has to pay for the donor materials, the testing, the processing, the cookies and orange juice, the phlebotomists, the storage, the transport, the advertising to get donors, the lawsuits...

Get the picture?

MajorHavoc:
Re: Mexico...I was barred from donating for a year following a vacation to Mexico.  It was explained to me that visiting Mexico in and of itself does not result in an automatic deferral but travel to certain areas within Mexico will result in deferral namely unimproved areas and any of the ruins as they are considered malarial risks.  The year deferral presumably is long enough to allow any malarial exposure to come to light.
In my case, I visited the Mayan ruins aTulum.  I would highly recommend visiting there if you are in the neighborhood.  They may have been a bloodthirsty lot but they sure had an eye for real estate!

saint:
What gets me is that 30 years after I was in Germany I still cannot give blood. I know some things can have long gestation periods but I find that boggling. A doctor explained to me that there isn't a lot known about Mad Cow disease in humans and that it's not necessarily a rational fear of the disease but nonetheless... 30 years later ???

huygens:
I donate blood regularly, but I cant do double red. The tingling lip / chest is a reaction to the anti-coagulent they use. They need that as the machine pumps the blood serum back after extracting the red blood cells. You can reduce or eliminate the side effects by taking a couple calcium pills before donating. Unfortunately I can only do whole blood as I get a strong reaction to the anti-coagulent wether I take some tums before or not.

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