To be a gratuitous donor is a kind of form of solidarity: civil, Christian, human ... This is prestigious, worthy, this means that you are a healthy adult who has an active civic position who wants to make the world a little better ...
If society helps those members who, for some reason, need help,-this makes such a society “civilian”. In many countries, when applying for a job, preference is given to someone who has a donor card. And this is not surprising. The donor is responsible for his health and has an active civic position - such an employee will not fail. The most important thing in all this is that for the donors themselves, donating blood is a conscious gesture of help to the one who fell into trouble, and not the moment of extraction of any benefit.
From history
The first transfusion of blood from a person from a person in 1818 was made by the London professor of obstetrics and gynecology, James Blandell using a special apparatus.
In 1832, the St. Petersburg obstetrician Andrei Martynovich Wolf, using the Blandell apparatus, performed the first surgery for blood transfusion with a postpartum bleeding from her husband - the first blood donor in Russia.
Since the late 30s of the last century, blood transfusion or its individual fractions has become widespread in medicine.
In preparation for blood donation and its components, the following simple rules must be observed:
- lead a healthy lifestyle, observe the rules of personal and public hygiene;
- avoid random sexual relations that can lead to a disease of sexually transmitted viral infections (viral hepatitis B, viral hepatitis C, other viral hepatitis with a parenteral transmission mechanism, syphilis, HIV (AIDS));
- avoid such cosmetic manipulations as tattoos, piercing, implants, shrygling, split tongue, etc. or refrain from fulfilling the donor function for 6 months from the date of the last manipulation;
- not to come to a donation in the presence of signs of malaise (runny nose, cough, headache, sore throat, increase or decrease in blood pressure), the presence of acute and (or) exacerbation of chronic diseases, during medication (including prophylactic purposes), as well as in a state of overwork (after excessive physical exertion, work at night, etc.);
- Do not plan a donation immediately before exams, competitions, during the intensive period of work, before work in hot workshops and at night;
- On the eve and on the day of donation, it is excluded from the diet of fatty, fried, spicy, smoked food, dairy products, eggs, oil, bananas, citrus fruits, nuts;
- In the morning on the day of the donation, “easy” breakfast (sweet tea, jam, bread, crackers, drying, boiled cereals, pasta on water without oil, a pair of steamed, juices, fruit drinks, compotes, mineral water, vegetables, fruits (with the exception of citrus and bananas)). "On an empty stomach" to undergo a procedure for donation is not recommended;
- 10 days before the donation, refrain from taking antibiotics, in 5 days - salicylates and analgesics, in two days from drinking alcoholic, low alcohol drinks and beer, in two hours from smoking;
- Donians of blood and its components are strictly prohibited by the use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues, toxic or other stupefying substances.
Recommendations to donors after the donation (donation) of blood.
- Immediately after blood donation, sit for 30 minutes.
- If you feel dizziness or weakness, contact the staff (the easiest way out is to lie down and raise your legs above your head or sit down and lower your head between your knees).
- Refrain from smoking within an hour after blood donation.
- Do not remove the bandage for 3-4 hours, try not to wet it.
- Exclude excessive physical exertion during the day.
- Refrain from drinking alcohol during the day (drinking alcoholic beverages after blood donation can cause a sharp vascular reaction with serious consequences in the donor).
- Try to eat abundantly and regularly, consume an increased amount of fluid and protein food for two days.
- Vaccinations after blood donation are allowed no earlier than 10 days later.
- Immediately after blood donation, it is not recommended to drive a car, a motorcycle (since attention is scattered due to emotional excitement, which can lead to a traffic accident).
- Do not plan blood donation immediately before exams, competitions, during the intensive period of work, before working in hot workshops, after excessive physical exertion, before and after work at night.
