TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Blood donors is a medical procedure that allows a person to give blood to those in need.
Quoted from the Mayo Clinic, blood from each donor blood will be collected through a sterile single-use needle, then collected in a sterile blood bag.
The American Association of Blood Banks states that generally, once a donation, about 500 ml of blood is drawn. This is approximately 8% of the total blood of the donor.
In this blood donation activity, there are several conditions that must be met if you want to donate blood. Blood donation officers only allow donors who are 17-65 years old and pass the medical examination before donating blood.
Then the donor must weigh not less than 45 kilograms and be healthy, both physically and mentally. Donor blood pressure is also limited to 100-170 (systolic) and 70-100 (diastolic). Finally, the blood hemoglobin level of the donor should be in the range of 12.5g% – 17g%.
In addition to the requirements for donating blood, it should be noted that there are several criteria for people who are not allowed to donate blood.
First, the donor has HIV / AIDS or has risk factors for getting HIV / AIDS, such as homosexuals, frequently changing partners (having free sex), using illegal drugs, and using needles that are not sterilized first.
Donors who are breastfeeding, pregnant or 6 months after giving birth are prohibited from donating blood. Then there are also people who have a history of hepatitis B or have had contact with hepatitis sufferers in the last 6 months.
Blood donation prohibitions also apply to people who have had blood transfusions in the last 6 months. In addition to having had blood transfusions in the last 6 months, injected with polio, influenza, cholera, tetanus, diphtheria, or prophylaxis vaccines within the previous 24 hours, injected with live virus vaccines (parotitis epidemic, measles, and tetanus) within the last 2 weeks and injected with vaccines rabies in the last 1 year is also strictly prohibited from donating blood.
Doing rajah (tattoos) or ear piercing in the last 6 months, dental surgery in the last 72 hours and surgery in the last 6-12 months also prevent a person from donating blood.
In addition to these criteria, there are also several conditions experienced by someone that makes them not allowed to become blood donors such as experiencing allergy within the last 1 week, have had a skin transplant in the past 1 year, have drug dependence, acute and chronic alcoholism, have syphilis, suffer from epilepsy and frequent seizures, clinical tuberculosis, or skin disease in the veins that will be stabbed in the blood donation process and have a tendency to bleeding or other blood diseases, such as thalassemia.
TEGUH ARIF ROMADHON
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