Some important things must be kept in mind while donating blood, only then your blood donation will be meaningful. Do not donate blood if you have any disease like AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis, Uncontrolled Diabetes, Kidney Disease, High or Low Blood Pressure, TB, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Asthma, Allergy, Jaundice.
Blood donation is considered as the biggest donation in the whole world because it is blood donation, which not only saves the life of a needy, but also fills a lot of colors of happiness in the life of that family by saving life. Imagine that someone is fighting for life and death due to lack of blood and you suddenly come across as a ray of hope and how happy you would be if your blood donation saved his life. However, there was a time when medical science was not so advanced and no one knew that the life of a patient could be saved by transfusion of another person's blood. At that time, the number of premature deaths due to lack of blood was very high, but now the situation is completely different, but even then it will be said to be ironic that despite knowing the importance of donating blood, even today, in the absence of blood, crores of crores of people are born in the world every year. People become prematurely dead, in which the number of such deaths due to lack of blood in India alone is about two million because there is a shortage of about twenty five lakh units of blood every year in the country. In fact, despite the publicity being done about the importance of blood donation, there are still some misconceptions about blood donation in the hearts and minds of many people, such as donating blood there is a risk of infection, weakness in the body, diseases to the body. You can get infected or have a disease like HIV.
Efforts have been made to make people aware about such misconceptions but the expected success has not been achieved. According to health experts, donating blood does not cause any harm to the body, but donating blood has many benefits for the body. As far as infection through blood donation is concerned, all health centers follow the standard methods prescribed by the World Health Organization while taking blood, so there is no risk of infection. Any physically fit adult above the age of 18 years and weighing at least 45 kg can voluntarily donate blood 3-4 times in a year at an interval of at least three months. Some people may feel slight weakness at the time of donating blood, but it is only temporary for a few hours. On the contrary, if we talk about the benefits of donating blood, then donating blood naturally cleanses the blood and due to the thinning of the blood, the blood does not get clotted, due to which the chances of heart attack are greatly reduced. The new blood cells that are formed in the body after donating blood, they have more power to fight against any disease and this clean and fresh blood is helpful in flushing out toxins from the body, which not only keeps cholesterol and blood pressure under control. Rather, prevention of major diseases like cancer, control of obesity to some extent and prevention of many infectious diseases. By controlling the amount of iron in the blood, the efficiency of the liver increases.
In view of the importance of life-giving blood, blood donation day was started on 14 June 2004, on the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, born on 14 June 1868, with the aim of making people aware of voluntary blood donation and then for the first time the World Health Organization, International Federation of Red Cross. And 'Blood Donation Day' was celebrated by Red Crescent Societies, since then this day was renamed as 'Blood Donation'. The purpose of starting the World Blood Donation Day was that since millions of people around the world end up in death due to not getting blood on time, so people should be made aware to donate blood. Blood is about 7 percent of the total body weight in our body and even if we donate 3 percent of that, there is no health related problem. By the way, according to the instructions of the World Health Organization, no more than one unit ie 450 ml of blood can be taken from any person at a time and our body itself fills this blood in 2-3 days. Red blood cells, platelets, plasma and cryoprecipitate are separated from the blood obtained after donation and used for the patients. RBCs can be used up to 42 days after blood is taken while platelets can be used only within 5 days.
Some important things must be kept in mind while donating blood, only then your blood donation will be meaningful. Do not donate blood if you have any disease like AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis, Uncontrolled Diabetes, Kidney Disease, High or Low Blood Pressure, TB, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Asthma, Allergy, Jaundice. Avoid donating blood during menstruation or women who are pregnant or lactating. If you have had typhoid and have been cured within a month, had an abortion a few days ago, had malaria within three years, had a vaccine to prevent a disease in the last six months, are under 18 or 60 Do not donate blood if it is more than a year. Whenever you donate blood, drink enough water for some time before and after some time, eat green vegetables and nutritious food rich in iron and vitamins, but before donating blood, besides junk food, high-fat food, smoking, drinking etc. Avoid consuming intoxicants. If you drink alcohol, stop consuming alcohol 2-3 days before.
According to the data of the World Health Organization, 10 million units of blood are required every year in the country, but only 75 lakh units of blood are available. If we look at the total population of the country and assume that a person donates blood only once in a year, it still means that only half percent of the people donate blood. This is a very shocking situation and in view of the deaths of lakhs of people due to lack of blood even in the age of modern science, it is absolutely necessary that a mass awareness campaign should be launched to motivate the general public to donate blood and explain its benefits. Go. People should be explained that donating blood does not harm them in any way, but the spiritual satisfaction they get by saving a precious life from their blood is priceless, as well as the disease-resistant system of our body is also strengthened by blood donation. Voluntary blood donation saves someone's life and gives mental happiness, at the same time a blood donor card is also made of the person donating blood, which is beneficial if he or any of his family members ever need blood within a year. If so, he can easily get one unit of blood from the blood bank through this blood donor card.
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