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Why Giv
1. Consider the newborn baby wh
severely burned child or a young m
business executive with a bleeding i
surgery.
2. Open heart surgery prolonging
ble without adequate blood for tra
3. Blood must be given from one 1
be manufactured.
4. This precious life-saving comm
life span of only 21 days.
5. Volunteered blood is considers
than paid-for-blood, less likely to i
6. Blood is used either whole or
used to treat specific conditions.
GOOD NEIG]
Are you one of the fortunate peo
you show your appreciation and c
your family, friends, neighbors, a
Life, please pledge a unit of blood
Blood Doi
Quallficat
T">i j n -i u u?
diuuu L?uiiuns siiouiu ue in gene
Age: 17 up to 66th birthday. Old*
the Blood Bank Physician.
Weight: Minimum of 110 pound
Permanently Deferred: A medk
1. Hepatitis (Yellow Jaundice)
2. Coronary Heart Disease
3. Diabetes requiring insulin
4. Epilepsy (except as a child)
5. Malignancy?Cancer (except
physician).
Temporar
3 Year Deferment
1. Malaria attack or Anti-Malai
2. Immigrant from an area end
6 Month Deferment
1. Travel outside the U.S. in an
2. Ears pierced (if done by a st
3. Tatoos
4. Acupuncture
5. Blood transfusion
6. Major Surgery
7. Allergic reaction to medicatii
2 Month Deferment
1. Blood Donation?You can gr
2. Immunization for German M
6 Week Deferment
1. Pregnancy-delivery, miscarri
2 Week Deferment
1. Immunizations: Smallpox, me
72 Hour Deferment
1. Cold or flu symptoms
2. Tooth extraction
3. Allergy Shots
4. Flu Shots
48 Hour Deferment
1. Cold sores and fever blisterMedications:
1. Antibiotics (except for Acne
2. Blood Pressure?Blood pressi
at time of donation.
3. Vitamins, hormones, birth cc
ment.
4. Please check all other medic
e Blood?
10 needs a whole new blood supply...a
other with delivery complications...a
deer, or an elderly person undergoing
many lives today would not be possiinsfusion.
luman being to another; blood cannot
odity is in short supply, since it has a
?d by medical authorities to be safer
contaminated with hepatitis, etc.
separated into its components and
HBOR POLICY
pie enjoying good health? If so, won't
oncern by giving of yourself to help
,nd fellow citizens? Give the Gift of
inr
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rally good health.
er donors can donate with approval of
Is.
:al history of?
skin panppr aftpr rplpasp from thpir
ily Deferred
ia drugs,
emic for Malaria.
i area endemic for Malaria,
erile technique)
on.
ye six times a year.
[easles (rubella).
age, abortion
asles, yellow fever, mumps, oral polio,
-after healing.
)-orally 14 days, injection 30 days,
jre must be within our required limits
mtrol pills or thyroid pills?No Deferations
with Center.
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Ms. Billie Bennett is Director of Donor Reso
ter. Ms. Bennett emphasized that blood assurai
much when you are enjoying good health, and e
receive blood, but that outlook changes wher
blood. According to Ms. Bennett, the Blood Cei
headquartered in Greenville, and serving the ne
Abbeville, Laurens, Greenville, Oconee, and P
- J \M
Billy Woodall, a medical technician for the C
draw a pint of blood from Mack Parsons.
Are You Oi
The rarest blood is the type that is not avail
hospital shelf when a patient needs it. Having
mean that your blood is used for the majorit
The following table shows the proportion oi
dard blood types:
BLOOD TYPF
TYPE FREQUENCY
RH POSITIVE
O 1 in 3
A 1 in 3
B 1 in 12
AB 1 in 29
RH NEGATIV1
0 1 in 15
A 1 in 16
B 1 in 67
AB 1 in 167
Blood is a tissue suspended in a liquid call<
composed of red cells which carry oxygen, whi
fection, and platelets which aid in the clottir
Be our type and share life with someone. Si
Carolina Blood Center, a regional health faci
if i
^Hff
J
urces at the Carolina Blood Cennce
coverage may not mean very
veryone hopes they won't need to
i an accident or illness requires
nter is a non profit organization,
eds of 15 hospitals in Greenwood,
ickens Counties.
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!arolina Blood Center, prepares to
ir Type?
able in an adequate supply on the
the most common blood type may
y of surgeries.
f people having one of eight stan:s
PERCENT
:t7 4
35.7
8.5
3.4
E
6.6
6.3
1.5
.6
?d plasma. The tissue is cellular?
te cells which fight disease and intg
process.
gn up to be a donor today with the
ility serving the Piedmont Area.