Donating blood is only possible after a month of complete recovery from the flu...When you got vaccinated?
Jan 17, 2025
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Usually, in winter, the number of blood donors visiting the blood donation home decreases, and group blood donation decreases due to vacation, but this year, the flu is also prevalent, making it more difficult to supply and receive blood.
According to the Busan Blood Institute of the Korean Red Cross on the 17th, the amount of blood held in Busan as of the previous day was the lowest at 2.8 days in type AB, 4.1 days in type O and 4.6 days in type A. However, type B is relatively generous because it is on the 8th. Blood reserves, which exceeded 8.3 days as of the 1st, are less than half of those except for type B.
The health status of blood donors is important enough to participate in blood donation only when they check their personal health through blood tests, but as the number of flu patients increases, the number of people who can donate blood has sharply decreased. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of suspected flu patients in the second week of this month (January 5-11) was 86.1 per 1,000 people, down 13.7% from the previous week, but remains the highest level since 2016.
Blood sources prohibit blood donation if you show similar symptoms even if you are not confirmed to have the flu in case of an emergency. In the case of people infected with the flu, blood donation can be made only after a month of complete recovery. This is based on the condition that blood donation can be made only after a certain period of time has elapsed after the cure of infectious diseases and other diseases.
What are the conditions for participating in blood donation.
According to the Blood Management Center's 'blood donation qualification', whole blood donation can be made up of 16 to 69 years old, and plasma component blood donation can be made up of 17 to 69 years old. Platelet-based blood donation and platelet plasma-based blood donation can be performed between the ages of 17 and 59. However, those over 65 years of age are only eligible for those who have donated blood from 60 to 64 years of age.
The weight can be over 50kg for men and over 45kg for women. Blood pressure (mmHg) is conditional on systolic 90 to 179, body temperature is 37.5℃ or less, and pulse rate is 50 to 100 times per minute for diastolic 100 or less.
If you are taking drugs, you must donate blood three years after taking psoriasis drugs (some of them are permanently prohibited from donating blood), four or six months after taking prostate hypertrophy drugs, four weeks after taking alopecia drugs, and four weeks after taking acne drugs to donate blood, and a certain period after taking other anti-blood donation drugs.
In the case of vaccination, influenza, hepatitis A, and Japanese encephalitis are available 24 hours after vaccination, hepatitis B is available two weeks after vaccination, and mixed vaccines and mumps of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are available four weeks after vaccination.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
