- Chest pain?
If you have ever been diagnosed with chest pain due to lack of oxygen to your heart, you may not give blood or plasma (any more). Donating blood may be associated with health risks in this case, even if you do not have any symptoms any more. For other causes of chest pain: consult the donation doctor before donating blood. Please contact the Blood Bank about this at 088-730 8686.
- Polyp?
You may donate blood if there are no signs of cancer.
Note: You may not donate blood for 4 months following an endoscopy (a procedure with a camera on a tube), regardless of the results of the investigation."
- Irritable bowel?
You may donate blood if you are symptom-free. You may not donate blood for 4 months following a colonoscopy.
- Prostatitis (infectious)?
Please contact the Blood Bank at 088-730 8686.
- Enlarged prostate (benign prostate hypertrophy?
You may donate blood. You may not donate blood for 4 months following an endoscopy (a procedure with a camera on a tube). An elevated PSA is not a problem for blood donation, so long as there are no signs of cancer.
- Prostitution?
You may donate as long as it has been 4 months or more since you last received money or drugs for sex. If you paid someone for sex these four months since the last paid contact also apply.
- Psoriasis?
You may donate blood if there is no inflammation and there are no abnormalities 2 cm around the puncture site.
Medication may be a problem for blood donation, e.g. acitretine (Neotigasone), methotrexate and other medication that suppresses the immune system; please contact the Blood Bank about this (088-730 8686). - Radioactive material?
Please contact the Blood Bank at 088-730 8686.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Please contact the Blood Bank at 088-730 8686.
- STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections)?
If you have been at risk for contracting a sexually transmitted infection, we will ask you to stop giving blood temporarily or permanently.
Important: please contact the Blood Bank at 088-730 8686 as soon as possible.
Also contact us if you discover you were previously at risk of an STI (e.g.a warning from an ex-partner).
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