• After you donate blood, your body starts to make new blood to replace what you donated. This process can take a few days to a few weeks.
• Your body will also replenish the fluids that were lost during the donation. Your blood volume will return to normal within a few hours, but it may take longer for your body to replace all of the red blood cells that were removed.
• In general, you should feel back to normal within a day or two after donating blood.

Yes, if your blood pressure is adequately controlled, stable, you don’t have any side effects related to your medication and you fulfil the rest of donation eligibility criteria.

If you are taking antibiotics for recent infection, the infection must have resolved and wait for 14 days after completed the course of antibiotics before you donate.

• It depends on the type of vaccine.
• Vaccines are made from live material, need to wait 28 days before donation. These include:
  • Hepatitis A, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, polio (oral), smallpox, yellow fever, BCG and typhoid (oral).
• Post COVID-19 vaccine : Wait for 10 days before donation.
• Post exposure vaccine like hepatitis B vaccine: wait for 12 months than if test negative to donate accordingly.
• Remember, if you aren’t sure just contact us to ask.

• Most prescribed medicines don’t prevent you from donating, but the medical condition they are prescribed for might.
• You can’t donate while you’re taking any of the following medications and for a period of time after you’ve finished:
  • Isotretinoin (Roaccutane,): used for acne
  • Acitretin: used for acne and psoriasis
  • Dutasteride: used for benign prostatic hypertrophy (enlarged prostate)
  • Finasteride: used for benign prostatic hypertrophy and hair loss
  • Misoprostol: used for peptic ulcers
  • Denosumab: used for osteoporosis
• If you take any of the medications listed above, wait until you’ve completed treatment and then contact us to see when you will become eligible to donate. If you’re on other prescribed medications, please note their names and give us a call to see if any of them will affect your eligibility to donate.
• Even low doses of these medications could affect the vulnerable people receiving your blood (e.g. pregnant women and newborn babies).
• For your own health, please don’t stop taking any medication to donate blood.

Yes,

• Taking birth control pills (oral contraceptives or ‘the pill’) doesn’t affect your ability to donate blood.
• Having an injection or implant (e.g. IUD) inserted for birth control doesn’t affect whether you can donate, as long as there are no complications from the procedure.

Usually, yes. If you take cholesterol-lowering medication prescribed to prevent coronary artery disease, you can still give blood if your cholesterol level is normal. But, if you have existing coronary artery disease, you won’t be able to donate blood for your own safety.

No, unless at least after 12 months from the procedure this include any other cosmetic procedure that involves skin penetration and risk of infection transmission.

Yes , 24 hours after the simple dental procedure ( filling or polishing) and after 7 days after (root canal therapy or extraction).

• Not right now, no. This is to protect your and your baby’s health.
• You can donate after 6 months after delivery provided you are not breastfeeding.

You have to wait for at least 6 months to allow time for your body to replenish its iron.

No, not during breastfeeding for you and your baby health. If they are breastfeeding, they need to wait for six months after you stop breastfeeding.

• It depends where you’ve travelled, contact us to check the status of the country you visit.
• If it is malaria endemic area , you will need to wait 12 months from your return date.
  • However if you life in the endemic area in the first 5 years of life or continues period of 6 months or more , you will need to wait for 5 years from your return date.
  • If you diagnosed with malaria, unfortunately you are not eligible for donation.
• The eligibility of some countries or area may get change with times according to pandemic or endemic infections.

When determining blood donation eligibility, the blood center assesses your hemoglobin levels but not your iron stores.

• Maintaining a nutritious diet is essential for all individuals, but consuming iron-rich foods alone may not compensate for the iron loss caused by blood donation. To replenish the lost iron, individuals may opt to take iron supplements or multivitamins with iron, which can be obtained either via prescription or over-the-counter from a drugstore. A healthcare professional such as a physician or pharmacist can help determine the appropriate dosage, type, and duration of iron supplements to consume.
• If you donate red blood cells three or more times per year, it is recommended that you consider taking an over-the-counter iron supplement.

Low iron stores can result in various symptoms, such as exhaustion and reduced ability to engage in physical activity.

Yes, after 2 weeks of full recovery and cessation of any medication.

• Yes , provided that controlled by diet or oral medication with no disease complications.
• Not, if requires insulin treatment or has complications with multi-organ involvement.

Yes, provided that your blood pressure is well controlled, and you have no disease complications.

Yes, if off medication and seizure-free for 3 years.

Yes, provided that the rash is mild and isn’t inflamed or infected and doesn’t affect the inner surface of your elbow where we take blood. 

Depending on the cause of the diarrhea, you’ll need to wait between one and four weeks after recovering.

Yes, but wait for 12 months after to donate.