Tips on Blood Donation

- Don't donate blood if ever had suffered form infectious disease, hepatitis(Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin).
- Having any sexual disease, AIDS or symptoms or test positively for HIV. Human Immunodeficiency Virus, that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) through Un-protected sex; it replicates in and kills the helper T cells. To prevant HIV transmission and STDs(a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact know as sexually transmitted diseases), always play safe sex game using condoms before sexual transmission with your partner.
- In Case of Pregnancy one should not donate blood, because its leads donor ill itself with lots of problems simultaneousely. Generally, donated blood take up to 40-60 days to be recovered in the body. As the time of pregnancy, baby fully dependents on mom's health and healthy blood as well. Means, mother feeds his/her child, so she needs to be more healthier relatively. Child's health will directly proportional to the Mother's health.

Child's Health - Directly Proportional to - Mother's Health

In addition, at the delivery time, commonly observed that mother needs extra blood to have as there will be more bleeding. So due to these reasons pregnant lady should avoid to donate blood in that condition.
- If you had malaria or taken drugs to prevent malaria in past 3 years. A kind of protozoal infection, An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever)
- You had been tested for syphilis, a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; or gonnorhea in past 1 year.

Persons with the following conditions are not eligible to donate blood.

1)Malaria (within 1 year)
2)Hepatitis B, C *
3)Any other type of Jaundice (within 16 years)
4)AIDS(Having any sexual disease, AIDS or symptoms or test positively for HIV. Human Immunodeficiency Virus, that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) through Un-protected sex; it replicates in and kills the helper T cells. To prevant HIV transmission and STDs(a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact know as sexually transmitted diseases), always play safe sex game using condoms before sexual transmission with your partner.)
5)Tuberculosis (within 2 years)
6)Diabetes (are you under medication currently?)
7)Cancer *
8)Leprosy or any other infectious diseases
9)Kidney disease *
10)Heart disease *
11)Chicken Pox (within 1 year)
12)Hormonal disorders *
13)Hemoglobin deficiency / Anemia (recently)
14)Drastic weight loss (recently)
15)Small Pox Vaccination (within the last 3weeks)
16)Blood Donation (within the last 3 months)
17)Blood Transfusion (within the last 6 months)
18)Major Surgery (within the last 3 months)
19)Pregnancy (within the last 6 months)
20)Organ Transplant (within one year)