The desire to become a blood donor and thereby help in need - excellent motivation. However, before you create good deeds, you need to carefully prepare them.
How to prepare for blood flow?
To give blood to choose the day when you do not have particularly important events, and stressful situations will not disturb you. It is recommended to sleep well and relax. Light breakfast required. As an option you can eat porridge without butter or milk with fruit (except bananas). By the way, during the inspection you may ask you than you have breakfast, and if your food will be defective, you can send you home.
How to eat before surrendering blood?
Before donating blood to donation, you need to adhere to special nutrition. First, it will make it easier for blood delivery, and secondly, it will improve its quality. By the way, blood donors are encouraged to adhere to the rules of proper nutrition not only immediately before surrendering blood, and all the time, so the power is consumed in a large way to affect blood quality.
For a few days, it is recommended to restrict ourselves to the use of the following products:
- Smoked, acute and fatty food;
- Sausages;
- Pickles and canned matter;
- Dairy products (including yogurts, cream and butter), as well as eggs;
- Nuts, seeds;
- Blueberry, bananas;
- Fast food (any snacks, chips, crackers, sauces, shopping sweets).
In addition, three days before the blood fence, it is necessary to abandon the reception of drugs, as they may affect blood quality. It is also forbidden to smoke and drink alcohol two days before and after blood delivery.
The process of delivery of blood
The blood delivery procedure takes about three hours. At this time, the donor registration includes a medical examination, the blood fence and rest after it. Otherwise, take into account possible queues, so if you need to calculate the time, take into account this aspect.
It is possible to donate blood only in the morning. It is not necessary to retention about your desire to share blood, registration occurs in place. Your general data is entered into a special questionnaire: phone number, address, place of work or study. Sometimes they may ask to take a photo.
Then you need to check for doctors, which is exactly from the point of blood delivery. Usually, the donor measure pressure and pulse, check the blood group and its condition. If all the indicators are normal, the donor is sent to relax a little and drink sweet tea with cookies.
And after that, it is possible to donate blood. The procedure takes 10-15 minutes, and everything that is required from the donor is not nervous, it is more comfortable to get on the chair and squeeze, squeeze your hand fist from which blood takes. About any not comfortable condition you need to immediately inform the medical staff.
What to do next?
Well, that's all, you shared our blood and saved my life to someone. And then you need to take care of yourself and your my own. The rest of the day is recommended to spend in calm, without special physical exertion and emotional excitement. The hand from which blood was taken, the day or two can not be strongly strained or wearing gravity. Otherwise, look at your state: if you do not feel weaknesses, continue to lead your usual rhythm of life, and if you feel the best to be desired, spend the day at home.