List of People Who Cannot Do Blood Donations

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Have you ever done a blood donor? He said, donating blood regularly can keep the body healthy because the blood cycle in the body is good. Even mentioned if blood donors can make your weight scale down. Want to try it? But wait, it turns out that not everyone can donate blood. Then who is allowed to donate blood?

Who can do blood donation?

Blood donation activities are now not only done in hospitals or at the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) headquarters, but also in public places and ramau like malls. This is intended to make more people volunteer and donate blood.

If you are 17-66 years old, have a healthy health condition and weigh more than 50 kg, you can donate blood. in fact, you can make it a routine and try the benefits for health yourself.

Then who is not recommended to donate blood?

However, unfortunately not only is age and healthy status generally seen when you want to donate blood. Medical history and a number of other habits are also conditions for becoming a donor. Here are conditions where you are not recommended to donate blood:

Have high blood pressure. If your blood pressure is more than 180/100 mmHg, you cannot make a blood donor. If you keep doing it, it will only endanger your condition.
Having flu and coughing. Although it is not a severe disease, this condition makes the body become not fit and fresh. If you want to donate blood, you should first restore your condition.
Just been pierced in the body. You may not donate blood if there are piercings on the tongue, nose, navel, and other body parts that have just been paired within the previous 12 months. Meanwhile, piercing in the ear is still allowed to donate.
Having uncontrolled diabetes. If you have diabetes and your blood sugar levels are not normal, you are not recommended to donate blood.
Acute infection. For those of you who are undergoing treatment using antibiotics, you should not donate blood first. Because, the antibiotics you drink can be transmitted through the blood you donate.
Having heart failure. If you experience heart disease such as a heart attack in the past 6 months, then you should delay donating blood.
Having sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis or gonorrhea in the last 12 months. You have to wait 12 months after your treatment is completely finished to be able to donate blood.
Is pregnant. Pregnant women are not allowed to donate blood. If you want blood donation, you have to wait up to 6 months after birth.
Weight less than 50 kg. The amount of a person's blood in accordance with the proportion of body weight and height. People with too little weight are considered to have a small amount of blood, so it is feared that they cannot tolerate blood collection as needed in the blood donation process.