Blood donation

stumblinthrulife

yesimpson wrote: »

aimeerace wrote: »

stumblinthrulife wrote: »

I'd not overthink it. To not exacerbate the light-headedness, I would eat at maintenance on the day you give blood and perhaps the day before if was an early morning donation. Then I'd go back to your deficit.

Sadly I'm not allowed to give blood in the US because I'm a Brit and lived in England through the BSE (mad cow) years.

That sucks. I donated bone marrow to an American two years ago. They sure weren't worried about me having mad cows disease! LOL

Bone marrow's another thing I can't donate, because of a latex allergy - I fail to understand this. If my GP, local practice nurse, the hospital and the dentist can work around that, why can't the bone marrow donation process?

Pure guess here, but probably part of the equipment for bone marrow donation contains latex, and it's not cost-effective to create a latex-free version for the small amount of the population that are both latex-sensitive and want to donate bone marrow.

Latex free gloves and other equipment for more mainstream procedures will be more cost-effective.

stumblinthrulife

yesimpson wrote: »

aimeerace wrote: »

stumblinthrulife wrote: »

I'd not overthink it. To not exacerbate the light-headedness, I would eat at maintenance on the day you give blood and perhaps the day before if was an early morning donation. Then I'd go back to your deficit.

Sadly I'm not allowed to give blood in the US because I'm a Brit and lived in England through the BSE (mad cow) years.

That sucks. I donated bone marrow to an American two years ago. They sure weren't worried about me having mad cows disease! LOL

Bone marrow's another thing I can't donate, because of a latex allergy - I fail to understand this. If my GP, local practice nurse, the hospital and the dentist can work around that, why can't the bone marrow donation process?

Pure guess here, but probably part of the equipment for bone marrow donation contains latex, and it's not cost-effective to create a latex-free version for the small amount of the population that are both latex-sensitive and want to donate bone marrow.

Latex free gloves and other equipment for more mainstream procedures will be more cost-effective.

yesimpson

stumblinthrulife wrote: »

yesimpson wrote: »

aimeerace wrote: »

stumblinthrulife wrote: »

I'd not overthink it. To not exacerbate the light-headedness, I would eat at maintenance on the day you give blood and perhaps the day before if was an early morning donation. Then I'd go back to your deficit.

Sadly I'm not allowed to give blood in the US because I'm a Brit and lived in England through the BSE (mad cow) years.

That sucks. I donated bone marrow to an American two years ago. They sure weren't worried about me having mad cows disease! LOL

Bone marrow's another thing I can't donate, because of a latex allergy - I fail to understand this. If my GP, local practice nurse, the hospital and the dentist can work around that, why can't the bone marrow donation process?

Pure guess here, but probably part of the equipment for bone marrow donation contains latex, and it's not cost-effective to create a latex-free version for the small amount of the population that are both latex-sensitive and want to donate bone marrow.

Latex free gloves and other equipment for more mainstream procedures will be more cost-effective.

Ah interesting. I think you're probably right.

shrinkingletters

Jack: Cookie in the middle of the day?
Liz: I gave blood!
Jack: Does that burn calories?

shrinkingletters

I used to donate about every other month or so. Only special thing I did after donating was have a Coke and then eat when I got home. I don't think I'd log it as burning calories at all.

AlixStark

It makes me happy when people donate blood. They do drives at my work 6 times a year, and people still don't go. It's paid time away from your desk, free cookies, and saving lives. Doesn't get much more awesome than that.

I don't log the blood regen burn or the cookie I eat afterwards to get my sugar back up. I figure it's a wash.

PaulaWallaDingDong

Definitely eat more after donating blood, but don't go overboard. I manually entered my last donation at 600 cals for the fun of it, but didn't eat that much more. Have the juice and a snack that they give you, and treat yourself to a nice dinner. Either way, the worst you're doing is losing 1 day's deficit. It's a small price to pay for saving a life.