Blood Donation - Is that for me?

For a long time, I wanted to write about blood donation and why it is very important for the donor and for the community. There hasn’t been a lot of research activity on how donating blood helps the donor but it is a well understood fact that the act saves lives. So what is this all about? Who can donate blood and what care needs to be taken before and after donating blood? Keep reading to save more lives…

Donating Blood:

Blood donation is about helping the people who are in very bad need of a renewed life. It is about giving people an opportunity to get back to their normal life. There can be nothing noble when compared to giving someone a life to live. I used to donate blood in the past to a blood bank and i learnt that the blood will be disposed after 90 days if that is not used. After knowing this i stopped donating blood to blood banks and would only donate if approached from hospitals asking for my particular blood group. I now realise how wrong i was.

Blood nowadays is not used in its original form. Instead it is divided into smaller components like Red Blood corpuscles, Blood platelets and plasma and they are used for treatment of various diseases. We all should remember that all hospitals take only what is medically accepted as allowed quantity to donate.So what we generally donate would just be the extra blood our body can really afford to loose. The donated blood regenerates in 8 weeks time so there is really nothing to worry about it.

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