Blood and bone marrow donation campaign to be held in Larroque this Saturday

The Municipality of Larroque reminds, through the Ministry of Health and Environmental Development, that this Saturday, May 20, a blood and bone marrow donation campaign will be carried out, jointly with the “San Isidro Labrador” Hospital, next to the Gualeguaychú Blood Bank.

Just like last year, professionals from the neighboring city’s bank will be in our city to carry out the campaign that consists of donating blood and registering for bone marrow donation.

“Those who wish, see the need and importance of donating blood, can go to our local hospital that day, to proceed with the corresponding extraction of potential donors,” explained Diego Ortolano, in charge of the Secretariat of Health and Environmental Development.

Bone marrow

“The novelty on this occasion is that the possibility is added for those who want to be bone marrow (BM) donors, to enroll in the same process or express their desire not to do so,” added the doctor. Adding “the donation of MO is important and it is not like another donation that an organ is removed, only blood is taken in the same way as the same blood donation and that is extremely important because there are many diseases of MO such as leukemia or some bone marrow dysplasias, where an OM transplant is needed and contrary to what people believe, in most cases, the relatives are not compatible and that must be clarified, because compatibility is not found in approximately 70% , which makes it even more important to resort to blood banks to be able to save the life of someone who is undergoing a medullary or proliferative or dysplastic process of the marrow ”.

General conditions

-Age: 18 to 65 years.

-Weight: greater than 55 Kg.

-Physical state: healthy and well rested.

-Do not show up fasting: drink plenty of fluids.

-Light breakfast.

If they are medicated or do not fit any of these conditions, consult the Health Center “Dr. James Bugnard”; the “San Isidro Labrador” Hospital or the Blood Bank, New “Centenario” Hospital, bancounicodesangre@hotmail.com, Gualeguaychú, Tel. 3446-15227883, Monday through Friday, in the morning.

Who CANNOT donate:

-For 3 days: infections, vomiting or diarrhea. After a treatment

dental.

-For a week: after suffering from the flu, angina. After

have taken antibiotics. If you are a platelet donor: if you have

Consumed aspirin or anti-inflammatories.

-For two weeks: After having received a medical discharge for COVID-19.

-For 2 months: men after a blood donation.

-For 3 months: women after a blood donation.

-For 1 year: after a transfusion of blood, plasma or platelets.

After getting tattoos, body piercing or acupuncture. After a caesarean section, childbirth or abortion.

After an endoscopy, laparoscopy, biopsy, surgery, or colonoscopy.

After risk behaviors (casual sexual relations without the use of a condom)

-After having received the following vaccinations:

-1 Day: Flu-influenza, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Cholera, Typhus, Paratyphus, Coqueluche, Salk, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, ANTRA.

-2 Days: Pneumococcus.

-3 Days: Vaccine against COVID-19.

-15 Days: Measles, Mumps, Yellow Fever, Sabin, BCG, Oral Anti-thyroid.

-1 Month: Rubella, Varicella, Zoster.

-1 Year: Vaccine in experimental phase, Vaccine against rabies (with

history of bite).

Who can NOT donate?

Clinical history:

-Those who have suffered from Chagas disease, hepatitis, tuberculosis, duodenal ulcer, diabetics undergoing insulin treatment.

-Patients with HIV, HEPATITIS B, HEPATITIS C or those who belong to high risk groups in their transmission.

-Hemophiliacs.

-People treated with growth hormones.

-Sick or convalescent from malaria; brucellosis; syphilis or other venereal disease.

-Kidney affections; heart or coronary insufficiency; stroke, cancer.

-Allergic to medicines; allergic or asthmatic in acute stage, skin patients.

-Anemic or with coagulation disorders.

-Embarrassed or in lactation period