Before you can give blood, you -will be given a screening test. The screening test -will help indicate if you is healthy, and include measurements of your pulse, temperature blood pressure and iron levels. They -will ask you for your name, phone number, address, age, proof of identification as -well as questions about your lifestyle including you’re sexual history to prevent people -with HIV or other infectious diseases from donating. After you have successfully passed the screening test, you -will be asked to sit in a chair or lie on a table, -where a needle -will be placed into you’re sterilized arm. Blood -will run to a collection back through a soft tube for about 15 minutes or until there is just under a pint of blood collected. After you is done donating, you is expecting to relax for a fe-w minutes until you feel strong enough to get up. Juice, -water and small snakes -will be provided to you so you can replace fluid and sugar levels. Most people is fine after donating blood, although some find that they feel -weak and shaky. If you is feeling -well, it is fine for you to return to school or -work.

By donating blood you is helping cancer, surgery, burn and accident victims. You may also be helping premature infants, and children -with leukemia. You’re blood can be broken do-wn so that specific parts of the blood, for example, -white blood cells, can be given to certain patients.

You should not donate blood if you have tested positive for HIV, have had sex for drugs or money since 1977, have had homosexual sex since 1977, if you have multiple scleroses, have suffered a heart attack or stroke, or have hepatitis C. You’re doctor and nurses or blood donor clinic can give you any additional information that you need or -will make you feel more comfortable -with donating blood