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Why do you have to wait a year to donate blood if you’ve had a blood transfusion?
I had a blood transfusion last September when I was in a car accident, and I know I have to wait a year to donate blood. But why do you have to wait a year? What happens in a year that makes it ok to give blood again? lol.
Its just in case the blood you were transfused with was carrying a disease. The idea is that in one year, either symptoms would have shown up, or a blood test will show the presence of the disease. Blood tests can’t show diseases immediately. Lets say a person contracts AIDS today. It won’t show in a test right away.
That sounds kinda scary, but the fact is that donors and blood are screened so thouroughly that the chance of contracting a disease from a US blood transfusion are almost zero. The fact that we even defer people who have received blood from a US blood bank from donating back into that same blood bank is just more evidence that we take no chances.
So enjoy your year off, and then get back in the chair!
Why are you not allowed to donate blood if your blood pressure is low?
My blood pressure is about 78/52 and the nurse said that I cannot donate blood because they would have to take me to the hospital and put it back in. Is that correct and if it is, does it mean that if I was injured and losing blood I would die more quickly than someone with normal bp?
Blood pressure is partly determined by your blood volume. If you suddenly remove a pint of blood without replacing the volume, it is normal for BP to go down (less blood in the same space = lower pressure)
Your BP is low, but that is probably normal for you, and is just fine. Taking a pint out, though, would likely drop your BP to the point where you won’t adequately perfuse your vital organs. This can cause fainting, heart problems, kidney damage and other bad things.
If you were injured and had a major blood loss, you might see adverse effects more quickly. However, if you are young and otherwise healthy, your sympathetic nervous system would kick in big time and the adrenaline would probably keep your BP high enough to keep you going.
People who have high blood pressure are at risk if they lose a lot of blood because of something called autoregulation. Their organs are used to the higher pressures, and they are unable to tolerate pressures that would be normal for you.
Blood is life
Blood is life giver. Blood is to body as Water is to earth. It is the life saver an life giver. In ancient cultures even the worst enemy was not denied water when he asked for it. Because just like water, Blood is supposed to be divine so it needs sharing. There are many spiritual
scriptures praising the virtues of water. I bet if they knew how important Blood was, they would have written about that too.
But since the people in the ancient times did not know about it, it falls up on us to write the verse about Blood and its divinity.
There is one more of such life giver for us humans. It is is called communication.
All animals communicate. But we specialize in transferring our thoughts to others by using a so called
highly complicated language. Now I am told that even plants communicate and it has been proven. But in our case communication is so vital that it can be a life giver or life taker. Keeping this in mind, I really feel that communicating with others successfully is definitely one of the key skills we all need to
develop.
What is the connection between Blood, Water and Communication?
Well I am glad that you asked. As you may already know, human body is made of cells and these cells have memory. So when you actually donate blood which is then transfused to another person and this has been observed many times, the behavior of that acceptor changes quite a bit.
This phenomenon is observed to even greater extent in people who have undergone organ transplant. These cells have memories and they transmit or communicate their message to their new hosts. So if something so minute and miniscule can communicate at that level why do we think we are the masters of communication
although we tend to settle disputes with fists?
Think about it!
There can only be one conclusion from this. We are all not yet good enough in our communication. We all can do better at lots
of things.
Communicating with others and developing a sense of responsibility towards each other needs to come higher in our priority ad we all need to work towards it
NEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF BLOOD BANK PROFESSIONALS
The New Jersey Society of Blood Bank Professionals NJSBBP, Inc. is an incorporated, nonprofit corporation that was formed to assisteducational, professional and community outreach efforts of NJ Blood Bank Professionals. In conjunction with the Blood Bank Supervisors of New Jersey, the NJSBBP periodically sponsors educational seminars for blood bank professionals.
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A Message from the President of the New Jersey Society of Blood Bank Professionals If one considers the somewhat antiquated term “blood bankers”, notes the disparate collection of professionals encompassed under one roof, and then ponders an attempt to organize the lot as a professional society, I doubt few would rally to the cause. Perhaps appropriate models would be societies encompassing the derrick hand, refiner, and gas station attendant, or, the milkmaid, food processor, and grocer. As much as the task resembles herding cats, in our case it works. I suspect our origins as a professional entity and our unique place among society’s most important institutions enable us to view ourselves as a seamless, interdependent process flowing from donor to patient. The altruistic yearning of blood donors binds generations, social and ethnic groupings, and occupational distinctions in the larger community. It also binds recruiter, phlebotomist, technologist, and clinician into a society of professionals, each of whom adds unique skills to their stations along the journey. We educate and persuade the fearful and unheeding, and remind corporations of their civic obligation. The NJSBBP is now five years old. We have come of age as a source of high quality education through our annual meeting and technical seminars. Our scholarship program energizes high school blood drives statewide and recognizes youth leadership for organizing the single largest source of blood in New Jersey. The society has become a respected source of experienced counsel and advocacy for sound blood banking policy and priorities. Through hard work and the generosity of time and efforts by many, great progress has been made. Much more remains. As the incoming president of NJSBBP, I intend to expand membership to the many building blocks of our statewide system and will ask our leadership to establish work groups for donor services and community relations. Noting the 90,000 unit loss of donations over the past decade in New Jersey, these professionals need to revitalize our state efforts to reverse the tide and reestablish the security of self sufficiency. Communications among all blood banking constituencies must be reestablished through a quarterly communication. I hope to find the means to develop a high quality, sustainable newsletter that informs all and establishes the society as a hub for interactive problem solving. Finally, the often dull and routine task of committing business functions and timelines to policy and procedure must take priority. We grew fast and successfully. Future officers of the society will thank us for eliminating the thrill of last minute discoveries. Join, participate, learn, and help us grow. Stake out your rightful place in the NJSBBP. Everyone is a steward of the state’s most precious resource. Sincerely, Chuck President (2005-2006)
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The Arline and Henry Schwartzman Courtyard of Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital
New Jersey Society of Blood Bank Professionals