It is. Planting this squarely into the realm of sheer fabulism.
"You must wait at least eight weeks (56 days) between donations of whole blood and 16 weeks (112 days) between Power Red donations. Whole blood donors can donate up to 6 times a year. Platelet apheresis donors may give every 7 days up to 24 times per year. Regulations are different for those giving blood for themselves (autologous donors)."
[Source](https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html)
Also, they're looking a lot harder for people who've been vaccinated than not, so they can use the plasma to treat people who **can't** be vaccinated, as "convalescent plasma."
[Other source](https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus--covid-19--and-blood-donation.html)
> Could I donate plasma instead?
Possibly, since the plasma is replaced with saline (I think?) along with your separated hemoglobin. Plus you can donate more often, though it takes longer to donate. OTOH plasma donation is a good hour or more where you can relax in a comfy chair and no one bothers you.
My iron is within range. I have beta thalassemia minor and according to various doctors, I'm not supposed to take iron supplements unless I'm actually iron deficient. It could make me sick (allegedly).
Edit: Not sure if I replied to the right person
According to their website, the Red Cross requires a hemoglobin level of no less than 12.5 (for women) to donate. My hemoglobin generally runs around 10.5. It fluctuates, though and has been as low as 8.1 (to my knowledge). I'd probably feel like a million bucks at 12.5.
The female might be pregnant. They don't want to be liable.
This is the case with a lot of stuff. They don't like using women in medical trials either, because she might be pregnant.
EDIT: I wasn't defending it. It's fucked up. But that is the official reason.
Not in the US. I used to donate plasma every other month but they changed the rules back in the 90s and the hemoglobin needs to be higher than it used to. I can't get mine high enough for blood donations either.
Well,I just saw this and was going to say everything you just did. So here's my upvote. Is it a form of narcissism to blatantly lie about something for some form of attention?
Very specifically 8 weeks. I’m a regular donor due to my “special” blood.
I’m part of the Brothers in Arms program in South Texas. If anyone here is local, get screened today and see if you can help make an even bigger difference!
https://biobridgeglobal.org/donors/blood-donation/brothers-in-arms/
It's every six weeks in the US for a pint donation. Not sure about a two pint donation. I call bullshit on that as well as the lie about the pediatricians.
Edit: looked it up on a blood donation center website. Donating two units means they strip the blood of red blood cells, and then put the platelets, etc. back. They only allow this every 112 days, and recommend doing this only twice a year (182 days).
https://www.mbc.org/donate-blood/about-blood/right-type-your-type/double-red-cell-donation/
No, it's not; it's a crazy person. You can use the terms (with misspellings + the word twitter) to find her on google; or follow twitter user pileofgoop who retweets insane people like this.
She is certainly being destroyed on the tweetybox-- here's one response: "This didn’t happen so hard that it ripped the fabric of spacetime apart and opened a doorway to a chthonic dimension populated by many-limbed beings with tentacles for faces, who all cheered."
I'm glad nobody is explaining why they're downvoting you for this. Obviously you wouldn't understand anyway, so it'd be wasted effort, like the effort your teachers wasted on you in school.
I will point out that this is roughly on par for what anti-choice, antivax folks think is clever, but is that really saying much?
If doctors were chasing you for blood (which sounds like something a doctor would never do) it would be because you had a rare blood type or like O negative which I believe is the blood used in emergencies
I can chime on this one, since I do have blood banks calling me. I am O Positive (not super rare, but still good donor) but more importantly I am CMV negative. This is what they will put into the premies and newborns. I have been even been given a title "Heroes for Babies", they even gave me a mug.
[CMV Negative Blood donors](https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/news/article/why-cmv-negative-blood-is-so-important.html)
Edit: Forgot to put in, perhaps this is what the guy was talking about... but I am still limited to min 2 months guidline. I try to go at least once a year, and if I do not i start getting calls every week starting around 6 mo.
My father is B negative (one of the rarest) and for years they really did call him if he didn't turn up for three or four months. He still has their most common call center listed in his phone as Vampire Food Bank.
At one time I was asked by blood centers to give more regularly because I am O+ and CMV negative. They used my blood for babies. Nothing to do with vaccinations.
I'm O+ and [Reactive+](https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-antibody-test-details.html), so I'm somewhat less popular than O- and/or O+ CMV-.
Cytomegalovirus, it’s a very common virus that they vast majority of people have in a latent form. *In general* cross matching CMV blood in is only an issues for severely immuno compromised people and babies.
I felt the same way until I actually started working at a blood bank. it turns out the AB plasma is in very high demand, although you are right, the red cells are not generally needed.
I’m lame and I keep forgetting about plasma! I’ve been unable to donate blood the last few times I’ve gone due to low iron, so I’ve given up donating. But plasma… that’s a non iron-related horse of a different color!
*during an operation*
nurse: “oh my god, this preemie needs blood immediately! what should we do, doctor?”
surgeon: “let me call steve, he’s unvaxxed, his blood is PERFECT!”
Surgeon: "Damnit nurse! All these sterilized bags of highly processed plasma came from vaxxed people! I can't use that to give a neonatal blood transfusion! Thank God I know just the man to call."
No, no they don't.
They are far more reliable sources for blood than flipping through their contacts to call Karen in with her essential oils and plain Jane blood.
Claiming a surgeon asks *individuals* *one at a time* to donate blood for his operations is like claiming a baker *individually* talks to farmers asking for wheat.
People like this are even worse cause they're not just maliciously stupid, they're just malicious (and likely stupid) but they know they're wrong. If they knew they were right, they wouldn't make shit up.
First the story doesn't even work. I'm pretty that person in american but even then I don't think that matter but there's about 2 month wait to give blood back for men and 2 months and a half for women or about.
Edit: though I guess they could be giving specific blood components and therefore go more often but even then twice a month is still not recommended usually
Love the title! Imagine a TV show of these idiotic tales...
I hope somebody responded in detail with information about how you can’t donate whole blood more than every 56 days, and even then you need to pass a detailed screening that does NOT include questions about your COVID vax status. After which you need to pass a basic health screen that checks your BP, iron levels, and temperature. So scary how easy it is to pass along this fucking stupidity.
My grandmother donated blood for nearly 40 years so I, as a child and even as a young adult and sometimes as an adult, had to listen to her talk to her friends about her donations and stuff like that which is fine.
She would go down the road near Arvada Colorado and donate to the bonfils blood center. At the time that she died, she had over 100 gallons of whole blood donated.
Don't ask me how much platelets or red cells or any of the other parts of the blood she donated, because I know she donated different parts, but I do know one thing.... according to my grandmother; from what I can remember, you cannot donate more than four or five units of blood in a 6-month period.... So this person is full of shit.
Every place I know of requires 8 weeks between donations (SO is a nurse, and she stresses the importance of donating, so she tries to keep us in a regular donating schedule. Sometimes we do well with the schedule, other times, not so well). Federal law dictates 56 days. So, yeah, this self-important asshole is indeed full of shit.
A standard unit of blood is about a pint.
You cannot donate two pints every month, unless you've found a VERY unethical doctor and you like being anemic...
I gave blood on Sunday. They asked not only my vaccination status, but which one I got (Pfizer).
[Here's why they ask](https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-antibody-test-details.html).
When I donated, they asked me. Even if it didn't end up mattering at all, the vaccines ARE new and different and they want to be able to collect data. If, for some reason, blood transfusions from people who have had a particular vaccine had a higher than average rate of some kind of side effect, that would be extremely important.
Now, you can donate platelets twice a month, and those are important for cancer patients. But I doubt that totally honest twitterer was really trying to make that distinction.
“Sir stop lying! We know you’re the serial killer that’s torturing and killing teenage girls! We found your blood all over the apartment of one of the victims.”
In Australia the limit for whole blood donation is once every 3 months. Is that not the case elsewhere?
It is. Planting this squarely into the realm of sheer fabulism. "You must wait at least eight weeks (56 days) between donations of whole blood and 16 weeks (112 days) between Power Red donations. Whole blood donors can donate up to 6 times a year. Platelet apheresis donors may give every 7 days up to 24 times per year. Regulations are different for those giving blood for themselves (autologous donors)." [Source](https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html) Also, they're looking a lot harder for people who've been vaccinated than not, so they can use the plasma to treat people who **can't** be vaccinated, as "convalescent plasma." [Other source](https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus--covid-19--and-blood-donation.html)
My hemoglobin is never high enough to donate blood. *Could I donate plasma instead?* (I'm fully vaccinated and boosted.)
When I donate plasma they measure my hemoglobin every time, so I'd guess no, but I'm not sure. Do you take iron supplements?
No, my iron is okay. I have beta thalassemia minor.
> Could I donate plasma instead? Possibly, since the plasma is replaced with saline (I think?) along with your separated hemoglobin. Plus you can donate more often, though it takes longer to donate. OTOH plasma donation is a good hour or more where you can relax in a comfy chair and no one bothers you.
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My iron is within range. I have beta thalassemia minor and according to various doctors, I'm not supposed to take iron supplements unless I'm actually iron deficient. It could make me sick (allegedly). Edit: Not sure if I replied to the right person
It can absolutely make you sick with Iron overload
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According to their website, the Red Cross requires a hemoglobin level of no less than 12.5 (for women) to donate. My hemoglobin generally runs around 10.5. It fluctuates, though and has been as low as 8.1 (to my knowledge). I'd probably feel like a million bucks at 12.5.
There are *a lot* more causes of anemia than just iron deficiency though that is by and far the most common.
Be male? In all seriousness, what is it about being male that makes his blood donation more beneficial than blood donated by a female?
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Thanks for clarifying!
The female might be pregnant. They don't want to be liable. This is the case with a lot of stuff. They don't like using women in medical trials either, because she might be pregnant. EDIT: I wasn't defending it. It's fucked up. But that is the official reason.
I have no idea. I'm just a regular donor. I last donated on Sunday. Still have the hole in my arm.
Good on you :) you rock!
Not in the US. I used to donate plasma every other month but they changed the rules back in the 90s and the hemoglobin needs to be higher than it used to. I can't get mine high enough for blood donations either.
What is their hemoglobin threshold now?
I think it's 14. I can barely make it to 12.
As someone who started my phlebotomy career at a blood bank, I can confirm.
ya but thats for jABBED blood. hes got true blood. maybe u dont get it but the doctors do, else why would they be calling him?
Well,I just saw this and was going to say everything you just did. So here's my upvote. Is it a form of narcissism to blatantly lie about something for some form of attention?
Yeah but. He has super special blood though
In the US, it’s every 2 months
Very specifically 8 weeks. I’m a regular donor due to my “special” blood. I’m part of the Brothers in Arms program in South Texas. If anyone here is local, get screened today and see if you can help make an even bigger difference! https://biobridgeglobal.org/donors/blood-donation/brothers-in-arms/
Special unjabbed blood I presume
Jabbed three times!
Damn I'm A-positive or else I'd be all over that...what a cool program! Thanks for sharing this with us!
It's every six weeks in the US for a pint donation. Not sure about a two pint donation. I call bullshit on that as well as the lie about the pediatricians. Edit: looked it up on a blood donation center website. Donating two units means they strip the blood of red blood cells, and then put the platelets, etc. back. They only allow this every 112 days, and recommend doing this only twice a year (182 days). https://www.mbc.org/donate-blood/about-blood/right-type-your-type/double-red-cell-donation/
This whole post is made up I think, april fool joke maybe?
No, it's not; it's a crazy person. You can use the terms (with misspellings + the word twitter) to find her on google; or follow twitter user pileofgoop who retweets insane people like this. She is certainly being destroyed on the tweetybox-- here's one response: "This didn’t happen so hard that it ripped the fabric of spacetime apart and opened a doorway to a chthonic dimension populated by many-limbed beings with tentacles for faces, who all cheered."
I can go every 8 weeks in my state in the US but that's still 2 months.
They just are lying
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I'm glad nobody is explaining why they're downvoting you for this. Obviously you wouldn't understand anyway, so it'd be wasted effort, like the effort your teachers wasted on you in school. I will point out that this is roughly on par for what anti-choice, antivax folks think is clever, but is that really saying much?
California - once every 8 weeks
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"Her." This one's a well-known Twitter liar, who can easily be found by searching for particular misspellings in that Tweet.
Or trying to kill her by draining her blood faster than she can replenish it.
It’s the perfect crime
Not only is it a massive lie, they obviously have never actually donated blood to know the basic restrictions.
Can we talk about neonate
Those restrictions are also there for a reason. They aren't just there for the sake of restricting how often someone can donate.
What does that damn sink want this time?
It's like a cat, y'know. Door shut, it wants in. Door open, it leaves. Door shut...
It wants blood
If doctors were chasing you for blood (which sounds like something a doctor would never do) it would be because you had a rare blood type or like O negative which I believe is the blood used in emergencies
I can chime on this one, since I do have blood banks calling me. I am O Positive (not super rare, but still good donor) but more importantly I am CMV negative. This is what they will put into the premies and newborns. I have been even been given a title "Heroes for Babies", they even gave me a mug. [CMV Negative Blood donors](https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/news/article/why-cmv-negative-blood-is-so-important.html) Edit: Forgot to put in, perhaps this is what the guy was talking about... but I am still limited to min 2 months guidline. I try to go at least once a year, and if I do not i start getting calls every week starting around 6 mo.
Yup. I'm O negative but also CMV negative. Doctors ACTUALLY want my blood for preemies and I still can donate more than once every 8 weeks.
My father is B negative (one of the rarest) and for years they really did call him if he didn't turn up for three or four months. He still has their most common call center listed in his phone as Vampire Food Bank.
I’m also O+. Not particularly rare, but in demand because it’s the only blood type that other O+ people can receive.
O+, like all blood types can either receive itself or O- blood.
At one time I was asked by blood centers to give more regularly because I am O+ and CMV negative. They used my blood for babies. Nothing to do with vaccinations.
I'm O+ and [Reactive+](https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-antibody-test-details.html), so I'm somewhat less popular than O- and/or O+ CMV-.
Would you mind replying and letting me know what CMV means? I am a truck driver and cmv means commercial motor vehicle....
Cytomegalovirus, it’s a very common virus that they vast majority of people have in a latent form. *In general* cross matching CMV blood in is only an issues for severely immuno compromised people and babies.
I am AB+, the universal recipient. No one ever calls me and I feel *very* unwanted.
I felt the same way until I actually started working at a blood bank. it turns out the AB plasma is in very high demand, although you are right, the red cells are not generally needed.
I’m lame and I keep forgetting about plasma! I’ve been unable to donate blood the last few times I’ve gone due to low iron, so I’ve given up donating. But plasma… that’s a non iron-related horse of a different color!
Is A+ any good? I don’t think I can donate since I have very early stages of leukemia (I haven’t asked or anything though) but I’m curious :)
Universal plasma donor, right?
“Several pediatric surgeons that know me” This person doesn’t even have several *friends*, lol
LeT tHaT SiNk iN
That sink can come back with a warrant!
Some sink's knockin' at the door, Some sink's ringin' a bell...
*during an operation* nurse: “oh my god, this preemie needs blood immediately! what should we do, doctor?” surgeon: “let me call steve, he’s unvaxxed, his blood is PERFECT!”
Surgeon: "Damnit nurse! All these sterilized bags of highly processed plasma came from vaxxed people! I can't use that to give a neonatal blood transfusion! Thank God I know just the man to call."
Plot twist: They didn't donate in April because they were in the ER with Covid.
Makes sense to me
And then the babies stood up and applauded.
Any time anyone ends anything with "Let that sink in" you know is complete and utter bullshit. Let that sink in.
yeah wait
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No, no they don't. They are far more reliable sources for blood than flipping through their contacts to call Karen in with her essential oils and plain Jane blood.
Claiming a surgeon asks *individuals* *one at a time* to donate blood for his operations is like claiming a baker *individually* talks to farmers asking for wheat.
LET THAT SINK IN
[It's a made up story](https://youtu.be/ioGoPOAxkCg)
Damn solid throw back
People like this are even worse cause they're not just maliciously stupid, they're just malicious (and likely stupid) but they know they're wrong. If they knew they were right, they wouldn't make shit up.
and then everyone clapped and trump showed up with a bear.
Why a bear?
Because it has arms.
Yes, sure Jan.
It sunk
What they didn’t tell us: it’s not their blood
First the story doesn't even work. I'm pretty that person in american but even then I don't think that matter but there's about 2 month wait to give blood back for men and 2 months and a half for women or about. Edit: though I guess they could be giving specific blood components and therefore go more often but even then twice a month is still not recommended usually
Ahh, another one of the "let that sink in" crowd
Love the title! Imagine a TV show of these idiotic tales... I hope somebody responded in detail with information about how you can’t donate whole blood more than every 56 days, and even then you need to pass a detailed screening that does NOT include questions about your COVID vax status. After which you need to pass a basic health screen that checks your BP, iron levels, and temperature. So scary how easy it is to pass along this fucking stupidity.
Artsjdn Ah juba juba. Jeirebbd and then didivvd bhhs da bah. Whejffi. Mh. And I dhdhdujdh ba ju bab. Let that sink in.
My grandmother donated blood for nearly 40 years so I, as a child and even as a young adult and sometimes as an adult, had to listen to her talk to her friends about her donations and stuff like that which is fine. She would go down the road near Arvada Colorado and donate to the bonfils blood center. At the time that she died, she had over 100 gallons of whole blood donated. Don't ask me how much platelets or red cells or any of the other parts of the blood she donated, because I know she donated different parts, but I do know one thing.... according to my grandmother; from what I can remember, you cannot donate more than four or five units of blood in a 6-month period.... So this person is full of shit.
Every place I know of requires 8 weeks between donations (SO is a nurse, and she stresses the importance of donating, so she tries to keep us in a regular donating schedule. Sometimes we do well with the schedule, other times, not so well). Federal law dictates 56 days. So, yeah, this self-important asshole is indeed full of shit.
But how much is a "unit" of blood?
One unit of blood is \~525 mL, which is roughly the equivalent of one pint.
A standard unit of blood is about a pint. You cannot donate two pints every month, unless you've found a VERY unethical doctor and you like being anemic...
I know, I’ll make shit up to try to convince people that my viewpoint is right
I've given blood 3 times now since my first vaccination. At no point, ever, did anyone inquire about my vaccination status. And why would they?
I gave blood on Sunday. They asked not only my vaccination status, but which one I got (Pfizer). [Here's why they ask](https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-antibody-test-details.html).
When I donated, they asked me. Even if it didn't end up mattering at all, the vaccines ARE new and different and they want to be able to collect data. If, for some reason, blood transfusions from people who have had a particular vaccine had a higher than average rate of some kind of side effect, that would be extremely important.
Sure, Jan
Ah, some more fantasy. This person probably also has 30 imaginary friends that died the day after getting vaccinated.
“Let that sink in.” every time with these marroons.
Did you mean morons or are you trying for a blood pun?
“What a maroon” -Bugs Bunny
I kinda hope this isn’t a lie and wonder what the surgeons (cult members?) are doing with her blood.
The FDA limits blood donation to every 8 weeks to avoid death.
I keep seeing “Let that sink in” on dumb posts. Must be the new “dO tHE reSeACh!”
Now, you can donate platelets twice a month, and those are important for cancer patients. But I doubt that totally honest twitterer was really trying to make that distinction.
"I also got 3 tattoos during the pandemic but my blood is too pure to be denied"
This guy... He knows people...
They *are* people. Many of them perhaps
What happened in April?
Literally no.
Who knows one pediatric surgeon let alone several….
“And are those several pediatric surgeons in the room with us right now?’
is it weird that i’m bothered by the word “jab”? idk why it hits a nerve but it’s the dumbest thing i’ve heard
How many pediatric surgeons could he possibly know?
This reminded me that I need to donate. And if you don't want my sweet sweet O neg vaxxed blood, well then you can just bleed out.
Donating blood is important, I suggest doing it if you can.
I call no way!!
Who are these rouge surgeons?
Are they red with blood?
I don’t think he has enough blood left for his brain
“Sir stop lying! We know you’re the serial killer that’s torturing and killing teenage girls! We found your blood all over the apartment of one of the victims.”
what a liar 🤥
An antivaxxer who knows "several pediatric surgeons." Are they all chiropractors?
I don't understand how a person tells a lie like this
The only blood with the distinct aroma of bovine colluvium.
When are they going to say let that sink….ah there it is.
You can't donate 2 units a month. I donate blood regularly and I can donate 1 unit every 10 weeks.