Why you are not aware of blood donation?

If you have never donated blood before, try to think about it. Through the blood donation you can save someone’s life in danger. You know about that there is no other way to get blood or blood products, only it is possible by the human being.

Do you know about the heart surgery? Or heard about the complications faced by women during childbirth? Or do you know about cancer? Or other diseases like anaemia, blood disorder etc. All the above need blood and blood products.

Needs of blood are high. Think about that in every two-three seconds more than 40 people require a transfusion. Just think of the people who are struggling with their diseases and situation. We are still facing huge problems from this shortage of blood. Everyone should do this service whenever possible. We know that our society is so busy with their work, so don’t have enough time to think about it and it rarely crosses our minds.

I am very much confident about the readers who will start this process now. Please visit our website www.uaedonors.com, click here and register your details on our website and you will be contacted if required. 

Screening process helps to keep both the donor and receiver safe

The blood gives a new life to someone and at the same time wrong blood will lead to a critical situation, so there are many chances for misconception about giving and receiving blood.

The common worries for blood recipients and even donors are whether the blood is transported to the hospitals or not. But in reality, bloods are collected and safely supplied to the hospitals and blood centres. Before performing a blood transfusion, blood is carefully screened and certified that it’s safe.

Donor screening stage:

This is the first step it takes place in all the hospitals or blood centres. It is completely like a face-to –face question session based on your health. The questionnaire asks donor about a health condition, continuing any treatments, and other medical related question. This process is mainly for checking your eligibility to donate blood. They will check your body temperature, blood pressure, weights, age, height, and check your haemoglobin levels. After completing this stage, only eligible donors can give blood.

Blood Testing stage:

After receiving blood from donors, it is sent to the lab for testing process. This process is an important one because through this the lab technicians find out the various infections or diseases like hepatitis B and C, leukaemia, AIDS/HIV, and many dangerous diseases. So this helps to avoid the wrong blood transfusion to the patients. If any blood results positive for any of this disease, lab technician disposes the blood and inform the donor about the test.

The above screening processes help us to ensure that we have a safe blood supply. Now, the receiver can understand that the blood came from a right donor. 

Eat Healthy Foods before Donating Blood

When a person donates blood, a common issue takes place after donation of blood are like they feel tired or even fainting. This feeling is a temporary one and it is mainly happening to the donors who donate whole blood which burns 600-750 calories. But is not the right reason for the faintness because people who are doing a workout, they can burn 600 calories from their body.

So you need an enough calories in your body before you donate blood. So choose a healthy food or food containing high calories which helps you to avoid unnecessary feeling of tiredness, after the blood donation.

Here the list of food which contains high calories.

1. Take a fresh veggie salad

2. Fresh watermelon slices

3. Fresh juice without sugar – Strawberry, Peach, and Pineapple.

4. Nuts- Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts.

5. Grilled chicken and eggs

6. Dark Chocolates and chocolate milk shakes

Along these foods, don’t forget to drink more water. Water is more important to our body which helps to digest all foods which you have taken. Consuming enough water helps to maintain good hydration level in your body.

Real Facts about Blood Donors | UAE DONORS blog

Nowadays, many blood donor organizations are there to help the people from the risk. Our aim is to provide some useful information or details about the donors. Today, people are ready to help others and they want to do something to the society.

1. The reason shared by the people who aren’t ready to give blood are- No idea about it and afraid of needles.

2. People who are ready to give blood the reason behind this is because they “want to save someone’s life”.

3. If you are donating blood from the age of 18 and donated until the age of 60, you save more than 500 lives.

4. The people step front for this service to save the lives of up to 3 people.

5. Donation of whole blood is common type but types of donation are platelets, red blood cells, and plasma.

6. Platelet donation helps to treat the cancer patients and it is used for other organ transplant treatments.

How the blood is separated into different groups?

Human blood is separated into four major groups. They are A, B, AB and O. Each letter refers to the kind of antigens or protein on your red blood cells.

1.      A type blood group – Contains A type antigen on your red cells and B antibodies in your blood plasma.

2.      B type blood group- Contains B type antigens on your red cells and A antibodies in your blood plasma.

3.      AB type blood group – Contains both A and B antigens on your red cells and no A and B antibodies at all in your blood plasma.

4.      O type blood group- You have neither A or B antigens on your red cells, but you have both no A and B antibodies at all in your blood plasma.

Each blood group is also combined with its Rhesus factor which is also called Rh factor. Combinations like Rh+ or Rh -. Checking or knowing the blood type is necessary during blood transfusion. During blood loss it is important to get required blood immediately from the donor side. Cross matching the blood type of patient with the donor’s blood using the blood type, to avoid unwanted reactions.

Blood Transfusion Procedures- UAE DONORS

Blood Transfusion is a process of extracting the blood from one person and injecting it to another person. The major reasons for blood transfusion, including

1.     To recover the blood lost during the surgery period, or some severe accident.
2. For the treatment of anaemia, haemophilia and blood lost during childbirth.

A blood transfusion can make up for a loss of blood. Mostly, Red blood cells are transfused because it is used to increase the blood’s ability to carry the oxygen throughout the body.

Preparing for a Blood Transfusion

In some case a patient needs blood transfusion, first to confirm the patient’s blood type, a sample of blood is withdrawn from the patient’s vein and sample blood is sent to the blood bank/ lab for checking the blood type. After receiving the blood type of the patient and a suitable donor is chosen, intermixing of the patient’s blood with the sample of donor’s blood to confirm they are suitable.

Blood Transfusion Procedure

A needle is inserted into the arm or hand, a tiny tube is attached with the needle which connects the bag containing the blood. During a blood transfusion, the blood flows from the blood bag, into the tube and through the needle which is injected into the patient's body. The whole process takes 1-4 hours, depends on the requirement of blood.