Please schedule your donation today.OneBlood is collecting plasma from recovered coronavirus patients to be used as a potential treatment option. Donate at Kentucky Blood Center and know a local patient experiencing illness or trauma will have the blood products they need. Instead, they are using the plasma for another purpose, often to make pharmaceuticals. When companies pay for plasma, they are not transfusing that plasma to a patient. FDA regulations restrict payments for blood, plasma or platelets if the donation is going to be transfused to a human. See our complete medication deferral list here. Each donor must be evaluated on an individual basis. However, we will want to know if you are taking any medications below. Most medications do not prevent donation. What kinds of medications will prevent me from donating?
#REQUIREMENTS TO DONATE PLASMA FREE#
For information about free HIV testing visit or call. If you are at risk of getting AIDS, do not donate blood.
It violates Kentucky law to answer the donor questions untruthfully. Prospective blood donors must answer honestly the FDA mandated questions on the donor form. Using blood donation as a way to get tested could put the blood supply at risk and endanger patients because there is a period after becoming infected that a test result will still show negative. Is it true I can get a free AIDS test when I donate blood? For this reason, it’s best to discuss what type of cancer and the treatment you received with one of our health screeners to determine if you are eligible to donate. Cancer? It depends on the type of cancer some cancers require a waiting period before resuming blood donations.Received a flu shot? Yes, you may donate.Allergies? Yes, unless you have a sinus or respiratory infection.High blood pressure? Yes, as long as your blood pressure is within the acceptable criteria of 180/100 with or without medication.Be sure to eat an iron-rich diet prior to your donation. Yes, as part of the medical screening process we will check your hemoglobin level to ensure it is high enough for you to donate. I have been deferred in the past for having low iron, should I still try to donate? You may also donate if your tattoo was applied with sterile needles and non-reused ink by a licensed facility in Kentucky or in another state by a licensed artist in an establishment regulated by that state. You may donate if your ear and/or body piercings were performed with a sterile, one-time, single-use needle. Anyone who spent time in the United Kingdom for a total of three months or more from 1980–1996 is not eligible to donate.Ĭan I still donate if I have a tattoo or body piercing?.Donors who have spent time that adds up to 5 years or more in France or Ireland from 1980-2001 are not eligible to donate.If you traveled to an area considered endemic for malaria you must wait three months before giving blood.Our trained health screeners will be able to evaluate your travel in order to qualify you to donate blood. You can use QuickPass to answer health history questions only on the day of your donation (anytime after midnight).Ĭan I donate if I have traveled outside the United States? On the day of your donation, you can answer your required health history questions before coming to the donation location using QuickPass.Ĭan I use QuickPass prior to my donation date? This is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement that helps blood centers ensure the safety of the donor and the safest possible blood supply.Ĭan I answer my health history questions before arriving at the donation location? Yes, screening questions must be asked of all donors at each donation. Platelet donations take one and a half to two hours while double red cell donations take 60-75 minutes.Īre the health history questions necessary every time? Appointments are not normally required, but are being requested to help with social distancing during the global pandemic. The actual donation typically takes less than 12 minutes.
#REQUIREMENTS TO DONATE PLASMA REGISTRATION#
The entire whole blood donation process, from registration to post-donation refreshments, takes about 30-40 minutes.
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