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Donation Eligibility

  • Cancer
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
  • Diabetes
  • Exposure Risk
  • Heart Disease
  • Lung Disease
  • Medications
  • Past Deferral Review
  • Pregnancy
  • Recent Travel
  • Transfusion or Transplant
  • Vaccines
  • Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)
  • Viral Infections
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Types of Donations

  • Autologous Donation
  • Directed Donation
  • Double Red Cell Donation
  • Granulocytes Donation
  • Hereditary Hemochromatosis
  • Plasma Donation
  • Platelet Donation
  • Testosterone Therapy
  • Therapeutic Phlebotomy
  • Whole Blood Donation
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Blood Types

  • O+
  • O-
  • A+
  • A-
  • B+
  • B-
  • AB+
  • AB-
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Understanding Your Test Results

  • Blood Pressure
  • Cholesterol
  • Hemoglobin
  • Pulse
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Donation Myths

  • Myth: I can’t donate if I have tattoos.
  • Myth: I can’t donate if I got a piercing recently.
  • Myth: I can’t donate if I’ve just been to the dentist.
  • Myth: Blood can be manufactured.
  • Myth: Blood donation is painful.
  • Myth: Blood is only needed in times of emergency.
  • Myth: Donating blood causes my body to start over producing blood cells.
  • Myth: Donating blood makes you gain weight.
  • Myth: Donating blood takes a long time.
  • Myth: Donating blood will impact my ability to do my daily activities.
  • Myth: Giving blood will harm me by taking away red cells or platelets that my body needs to function.
  • Myth: I can catch an infectious disease by donating blood.
  • Myth: I have a common blood type, so you don’t need my blood.
  • Myth: Donating blood can harm my immune system.
  • Myth: Other people are already giving enough blood.
  • Myth: Vegetarians or vegans cannot donate blood.

Glossary

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Who can give blood?
  • Where does my blood go?
  • Which patients use what blood components?
  • What types of photo ID are accepted?
  • What tests are performed on blood?
  • What is vCJD?
  • What happens when somebody tests positive for an infectious disease marker?
  • What can I eat to raise my hemoglobin levels?
  • Is it safe to receive blood transfusions?
  • I don’t have sickle cell anemia, but I carry the trait. Can I still give blood?
  • How will I feel after I give blood?
  • How often can I give blood?
  • How much blood is taken?
  • How long does it take?
  • Can I give blood for myself?
  • When was Carter BloodCare founded?
  • Can people with high blood pressure donate blood?
  • Can people who have tested positive for HIV or AIDS donate blood?
  • Can gay or bi-sexual men donate blood?
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Diversity

  • Hispanic Heritage
  • R0 Subtype
  • Sickle Cell Disease

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Glossary

Want to learn more about the donation process? Explore these commonly used words and phrases to better understand their meaning.

Medically reviewed on December 1, 2021.
A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U W
A
Allogeneic
Alloimmunization
Anemia
Antibody
Anticoagulant
Antigen
Apheresis
Aplastic Anemia
Autoimmune
Autologous Donation
Automated Blood Component Collection
Automated Red Cell Collection
B
Blood Type
Bone Marrow
C
Cellular Therapy
Cholesterol
Components of Blood
Crossmatch
Cryoprecipitate (Cryo)
Cytomegalovirus
D
Directed Donation
Donate / Donation of Blood
E
Engraftment
Ethnic
F
Factor XII
Fibrinogen
G
Graft-Versus-Host-Disease (GVHD)
Granulocyte
H
Hematocrit
Hematologist
Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell (HPC)
Hemoglobin
Hemostasis
Hepatitis
Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)
Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus
I
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
Immunosuppressed
Irradiated Red Blood Cells
L
Leukocyte
Leukocyte-Reduced Blood Components
Lymphocytes
M
Metabolic
N
Neoplastic Disease
Neurologic
Nonhemolytic
O
Oncologic
P
Pathologic
Perioperative Autologous Transfusions (PAT)
Peripheral Blood Stem Cells
Plasma
Plateletpheresis
Platelets
R
Red Cells
Rh Blood Group
S
Saline
Sickle Cell Disease
T
Therapeutic Apheresis
Thrombocytopenia
Transfusion
U
Universal Donor
Universal Recipient
W
White Blood Cells (Leukocytes)
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