Could you expand on that please, it makes it sound as if we're a dirty country that's rife with disease?
Blood donation
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Could you expand on that please, it makes it sound as if we're a dirty country that's rife with disease?
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
Mad cow, probably. I couldn't donate in the UK during that time period, due to having lived for extended periods in places that were then, officially, classified as malarial. That classification was removed but by then I was living outside the UK again, and couldn't donate because I'd spent longer than 6 months living in the UK during that time period ... then I came back to the UK but fell foul of the malarial area thing again (a different malarial area) then when that exclusion timed out, I was considered too old to restart ... not having been a regular donor in the previous however-many years.
I thought that with platelets they ran it through a machine and pumped it back in to the other arm?
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Back into the same arm. It’s called a return.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
No, back into the same arm. I gave platelets for a year or so
bitsandbobs
Über Member
As above, it's because of a perceived risk of vCJD.
Well if you're still alive after all this time..... 😂
Unless you can carry it for years maybe?
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
If I manage to give twice more in the next 18 months it will be 40 pints in 40 years. The first time was the day after I watched To the Devil a Daughter. In the film a woman was drained of all her blood for a Satanic rite. There was also a short nude scene by Natajsha Kinski, but I did not tell the nurse about that.
VelvetUnderpants
Über Member
I managed 57 donations, but after I was fitted with a pacemaker back in October I was told that I could no longer donate blood.
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Yes, as I recall, the prions are never excreted so every exposure to dodgy beef had a cumulative effect, and there were suggestions that symptoms of CJD could emerge years or decades after initial exposure.
I remember being quite bothered by that, particularly as I'd gone out for a 32 oz steak the night before the story hit the newspapers!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Could be worse - you could have force fed your kids a burger for a photo shoot!
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
From the early 70s onward, I've never been able to give blood in this country - or several others. I lived in, and/or spent considerable periods of time in, areas considered malarial, so the Brits didn't want it. Then in the 80s & 90s mad cow prevailed and despite my vegetarian status, my blood wasn't wanted in Germany, Kiwiland, Oz or New Caledonia. Then I came back to the UK and I'd not only been in supposedly-malarial areas again, but had also had surgery in a '3rd world' country, so my blood was yet again unwanted in the UK. By the time I was considered 'safe' again, I was too old!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Got my blood test back today
I'm still low on iron so I guess blood donation is probably out for good now!!
I'm still low on iron so I guess blood donation is probably out for good now!!
