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We invite you to a blood donation drive!
🆔 Remember to bring your identification documents!
The Regional Centre for Blood Donation and Blood Treatment in Warsaw, with the help of its best specialists, will do everything possible to further ensure donors' safety.
What else should you remember? Do not lie to medical staff about your health. This is very important. By doing so you will protect both yourself and others.
You can donate blood:
- if you are between 18 and 65 years old and weigh at least 50 kilograms,
- if in the last 6 months you have not had acupuncture, a tattoo, ear or other body piercings,
- if in the last 6 months you have not undergone diagnostic tests and endoscopic procedures (gastroscopy, panendoscopy, arthroscopy, laparoscopy),
- if in the last 6 months you have not been treated with blood and its components,
- people serving a custodial sentence and for 6 months after release from prison may not donate blood,
- people who stayed in Central and West Africa and Thailand may donate blood 6 months after returning, provided they have not noticed any symptoms of illness,
- blood must not be donated during pregnancy and while breastfeeding and:
- 6 months after childbirth,
- 3 months after stopping breastfeeding,
- 6 weeks after a miscarriage,
- you can donate blood 6 months after surgical procedures,
- blood can be donated 4 weeks after recovery from an infectious disease,
- after having had influenza, a flu-like infection or an infection with fever above 38 °C, blood may be donated at least 2 weeks after symptoms have subsided and recovery,
- blood can be donated 2 weeks after finishing antibiotic treatment,
- you should not donate blood during menstruation and for 3 days after the end of menstruation,
- refrain from donating blood 7 days after a tooth extraction, 24 hours after conservative dental treatment,
- blood can be donated 48 hours after vaccination against influenza and hepatitis and after administration of tetanus toxoid.
- Taking contraceptive drugs, hormone therapy used during menopause and antihypertensive drugs is not a contraindication to blood donation.
