Blood donation time calculator: When can I give blood again?

Blood donation time calculator: When can I donate again?

When is the right time and when can I give blood again?

Blood is a precious and necessary fluid. It transports the necessary nutrients in the body, but mainly oxygen and also waste substances that the body produces through its activity, metabolism.

Blood can be donated from one person to another. Someone will need this precious fluid due to various health problems, severe injuries and surgeries. This is when blood loss and the need to replenish blood is needed.

During transfusion, the patient is given a whole unit of blood, so it is not divided into separate components. Plasma can also be donated separately. A single unit of blood can be used for a number of purposes, components that can save health and life.

What is important, however, is that we can share this precious liquid with others.

Men can donate blood every 3 months and women every 4 months.

Women should not donate blood during menstruation.

However, even blood donation is limited.

A few restrictions to know about before donating blood:

• donor's age should be between 18 and 60 years,
• a regular donor's should not exceed 65 years of age,
• blood can be donated by a healthy person with no ongoing illness,
• you must not donate blood if:
  • you have had hepatitis, i.e. hepatitis B and C,
  • you have had surgery or a tattoo in the last year,
  • you are a carrier of HIV,
  • you have other serious illnesses or if you are being treated for a bleeding disorder,
  • when using drugs by injection,
  • when using anabolic steroids,
  • you provide sexual services,
  • if you receive sexual services,
  • if you live a promiscuous lifestyle and often change sexual partners.

Important: Blood donation is not used to test for communicable diseases!</i >