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DONORS WANTED

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Go team blood donor! I donated for the first time in October. I was so excited I'd recently become eligible after living in the wrong place for too long. It knocked me on my ass for a couple of days, and I can totally commiserate with your sick day.

Woohoo blood donations!! I had gotten out of the habit during the mandatory wait after a tattoo, I think, and then that was like... ten years ago... so I thought I should get back to it. (I was also worried about the medications I was taking, but it turns out neither ADHD meds nor antidepressants are on the medication deferral list, at least in the US? At least not the ones I was taking.)

I also got a t-shirt, this last time, and am feeling, like, solidly 85% today, plus it is possible that my post-blood-loss fatigue shut off my porn-writing inhibitions yesterday, so... really, there are many advantages to being a blood donor.

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How more Black donors can help sickle cell anemia

Photo by Roger Brown on Pexels.com Sickle Cell Anemia is a form of inherited blood disorder known as sickle cell disease (1). This condition causes the red blood cells to become abnormal in shape, taking on a rigid and “C” or sickle-shaped form (2). Some common symptoms of sickle cell anemia include fatigue, shortness of breath, pale skin, jaundice, pain crises, and increased susceptibility to…

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There are already guidelines that prevent people who feel unwell from donating blood.

I’m starting to think this issue is being pushed online because any type of controversy or fear mongering will generate attention and clicks, and drive engagement and therefore… generate money I suppose. It’s perplexing to me why people are worried that droves of people who are bedridden, feeling sick, extremely fatigued, or otherwise unwell with Long Covid would be giving blood. I seriously doubt that’s the case since it’s already a rule that you can’t donate blood if you’re even just currently feeling unwell.

It seems like people don’t realize how few people actually even do give blood at all.

I’ve noticed a zine put out and promoted by some popular online people and it contains odd fear mongering around blood donation and long covid. I wrote about how these claims were problematic because they’re so unspecific and unsubstantiated, and how the concerns really seemed overblown given existing guidelines for blood donations. It’s already a rule that you do not give blood if you’re for example just not feeling well, and that giving blood is not good for you if you’re feeling unwell, it’s not just about blood safety, it’s about patient safety.

The “concerns” that have been raised, were raised and unsubstantiated by a particular researcher with a connection to at least one doctor in a right-wing anti-vax organization, and the zine publishers already linked the issue to blood donor bans from the past stemming from a since disgraced doctor who was in the movie “Plandemic”. A doctor who went on to be a major anti-vax misinformation proponent. The article I originally saw citing this stuff curiously left out that part, so if you’re not familiar with the situation’s background most people reading it won’t realise all these connections to anti-vax right-wing weirdo stuff.

This also feels like a distraction for engagement farming using a hot button for people dating back to the HIV blood donation disasters. I am a little uneasy about how people compare the two diseases in medical ways that are not appropriate, especially as this almost seems to be a diversion to allow people to ignore the social comparisons that are applicable - such as stigma and the social determinants of health. I used to do photography at a local annual AIDS Walk fundraiser, in honor of a young AIDS activist and patient named Christopher Robinson, whose life was taken by HIV he contracted through a blood transfusion in the 1980s. That was a real horror. There were hard lessons learned about infectious disease since then that I really hope we don’t forget and go too far backwards into a Dark Age on infection control. There are always some risks with transfusions, and especially always risks with organ transplants, but also always some risk with any medical intervention — it’s always about the risks versus the benefits. And I see no reason to think there’s any looming scandal over Long Covid and blood transfusions. If there’s cause for concern, interested experts should be providing substantiated evidence, but yet that’s never cited. Nobody is pressuring Long Covid patients, or anyone else for that matter, to donate blood. And it’s already a rule that you can’t donate blood if you’re currently feeling unwell, have certain conditions (usually for the donor’s safety), or on certain medications (mostly cardiac care related).

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Blood Donate के लिए उमड़ी भीड़, डॉक्टर भी हुए हैरान | SA NEWS

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Blood Assurance in Need of Donors

Blood Assurance is again experiencing a critical shortage of O-negative blood and is asking for help from donors in the area. O-negative is the universal blood type, making it vital in emergencies where the patient’s blood type is unknown. Blood Assurance is asking people of all blood types to schedule an appointment immediately following a significant decline in donor turnout in recent…

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Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Blood(y) Business – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 984

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Webinario - 20 años celebrando la generosidad: ¡Muchas gracias, donantes de sangre!

La campaña del Día Mundial del Donante de Sangre 2024 tiene como lema “20 años celebrando la generosidad: ¡Muchas gracias, donantes de sangre!”, en conmemoración del hito del vigésimo aniversario y el profundo impacto que tiene la donación de sangre en la vida de pacientes y donantes. Esta campaña brinda la oportunidad de dar las gracias a las personas de todo el mundo que salvan vidas con sus donaciones de plasma sanguíneo y plaquetas. La campaña además hace un llamamiento a la acción, para motivar a más personas a que se unan al movimiento mundial de donación de sangre.

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Aspirus encourages blood donations as World Blood Donor Day approaches

Healthy adults who are at least 17 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds can donate about a pint of blood every 56 days, or every two months.

WAUSAU – Every year, millions of people require blood transfusions because of accidents, surgeries, childbirth complications and various medical conditions. However, the demand for blood often exceeds the available supply. World Blood Donor Day is celebrated worldwide on June 14 to honor and thank people who selflessly donate blood to save lives. Organized by the World Health Organization, this…

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NHS appeals for blood donors after ransomware cyber attack

The country’s top doctor has joined calls from NHS Blood and Transplant for blood group O Positive and O Negative donors to book appointments to donate urgently at one of the 25 donor centres in England to boost stocks of O-type blood following last week’s ransomware cyber attack against some of London’s hospitals. Donor emergency: the NHS’s blood stocks need topping up, urgently NHS England has…

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Appeal for blood donors after cyber attack causes disruption to supplies

Blood Donor Centre at 26 Margaret Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News. NHS Blood and Transplant centres in London are appealing for “O Positive” and “O Negative” blood donors to come forward to book appointments after last week’s IT incident caused delays in matching blood types. In Fitzrovia regular blood donors — as well as new donors — can book an appointment at the West End Blood Donor centre in…

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"DRIED BLOOD SAVES LIVES: Major C. K. Bleeks, of Winnipeg, is shown at a Canadian general hospital in Sicily, applying a plaster cast to the leg of a Canadian soldier wounded in Italy. At the same time the soldier is receiving a transfusion of reconstituted dried blood. The dried blood is used extensively by Canadians in the immediate saving of life. It is reconstituted simply by the addition of distilled water and air. At right is shown a "giving set" and a bottle of prepared plasma which is being made ready for use by Nursing Sister Lieut. Connie Clark, of Winnipeg, who is stationed at the same hospital as Major Bleeks." - from the Winnipeg Tribune. October 30, 1943. Page 17.

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Another Day To Donate Blood

There is a nationwide blood shortage and I’m doing what I can to help with that. Since I work for a blood bank it’s something that concerns me daily. Donating is a great thing to do and it’s easy. My next donation will be in November.

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