TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine National Red Cross once again reminds people on the do’s and don’ts in donating blood.
This is to ensure that the donor is in good health and the donated blood is not contaminated with diseases.
Among the dos for those who wanted to donate blood include would-be blood donors should have enough sleep and rest before they donate blood; they should motivate themselves to donate blood; and get a light meal at least three hours before donating blood.
The don’ts for those who are planning to donate blood are: don’t drink alcoholic beverages; don’t take any medication; and don’t get tattoo or ear piercing.
However, Dr Michieko Malou Modesto of the PNRC-Leyte Chapter stressed that persons with tattoo can still donate blood but this will only depend on the discretion of the physician who is supervising the blood donation.
“There are doctors who will allow you to donate blood but there are those who won’t.It will depend on their assessment on the appearance of your tattoo,”said Modesto.
“The reason why doctors will not allow persons with tattoo and ear piercing to donate blood is because those with these feature are prone to blood contamination, especially if they get this from unlicensed tattoo artist,” Modesto explains.
Among the diseases that can be accumulated from unsafe tattooing are hepatitis B and C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
But in some cases, Modesto said that if tattoo had already reaches more than a year in the body, doctor would allow would-be donor to donate blood.
Meantime,Modesto added that there are lean months of blood donation experienced by PNRC.
These months are from the month of March until June and from December until January.
The reason, according to Modesto, why they are experiencing low blood donations on those months is because those months are known to be fiesta months and fall under yuletide celebration.
“We all know that in these months there are lots of drinking session and too much eating that is why we experience little amount of blood donations on those months because we do not encourage people to donate blood if they had been eating fatty and spicy foods, especially those who had been drinking,” Modesto explains
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