do i get cash if i donate blood? what are the side effects of blood doning?
361298
You don't get cash for donating blood... Its plasma you get cash for.
231833
We have plasma centers in Fayetteville Ar. where I live and even though it's not actually donating blood the # is listed in the yellow pages under blood. I hope this helps you.
359711
Your bone marrow makes red blood cells and white blood cells all day long.  Your blood is never the same every day.  The cells die off all the time all day and night.  Donating blood is to give other people blood products like red blood cells, plasma and other things so that if they lose blood during surgery it can be replaced or if people are anemic and need it because their bone marrow is not producing enough for their bodies needs.  Hope this helps\n\n\nOMG bone marrow transplants are NOT for white blood cells. There are injectable medicines that they give people who do not have enough white blood cells that forces their own marrow to make more of the white blood cells.
889784
Yes, as long as you're not in danger of anemia.  The nurse where you go to donate will test your iron levels before you donate whether you're menstruating or not and they won't let you donate if your iron levels aren't high enough.  As long as you're OK on that score, you're fine to donate while on your period.  I have.
531101
No. Lets say you have high triglycerides. Whether you rid yourself of some of that blood thru donation still leaves the rest of your blood with a high triglyceride count. Your body will compensate, like it constantly does, by making new blood for you. That new blood will have the same properties as the old. Why? \n\nBecause high triglycerides happen on a cellular level. If your body is unhealthy and making too many triglycerides it will continue make them in the new blood. The only way to lower this problem is by diet and exercise, or at least diet.
309836
Currently, it is not legal in this country. Plasma, yes, but whole blood, no. That is why we have so many blood banks around the country that count on their donors to keep up the supply.\n\nAnd for the benefit of hot sing, as a Mason I served for several years as a chairman of our blood bank. The ONLY income to a non-profit bank is from the sale of whole blood, serums and donations. The expenses are very high.
228978
Don't lie and give blood any ways.  \nIf you feel like doing something offer to help pour juice and pass out cookies to the people who just donated.\n\nIt says right on the pamplet were your gona give blood the feeling after you've given blood. " Symptoms "\nIt's been a while since I've given giveing blood doesn't realy do much to you realy.\nBut if they say you have to be a certian weight you should do what you say.\nI'm sure thare is a good reason.
126932
I too used to be afraid of having blood drawn..that was before I entered the medical field...If you are donating blood just remind yourself that you are saving someones life and it is the best gift you can give someone..and if you are having it drawn to locate a possible health problem that you may have..remember it could be saving your life...so either way it is important to have it done..just turn your head..close your eyes..breath and imagine good thoughts..it is just a small pinch and will be over before you know it..good luck and be brave!!!!
450929
This is why pawn shops exist.  You take them something valuable (jewelry, ipod, etc.), you agree on a price, you have x number of days to repay (plus interest), or you lose your valuable item and then the pawnshop sells it to someone else for more money than they loaned you.\n\nSome places they pay you for donating blood.  Last I knew it was $50.
249257
Advantages-  Blood transfusions would come from your clone\n             and not strangers.\n\n             Chance for you to weigh out your options.\n             Ever wonder what would have happened if you \n             would have taken a different path.  Your clone\n             could do it for you.\n\n             Organ transplant on hand.\n\nDisadvantages-  Its like playing God.  Just shouldn't be \n                done.\n\n                Clone could turn out to be an evil twin and\n                try to steal your life.  They are not \n                robots, ya know.\n\n                One of me is enough!
1089370
thanx for the 2 points!, look up  Red cross centers near you. Thats where you can donate for cash
903365
I've never seen any place that donates for giving blood (unless you count a cookie and juice as payment). However, many places will pay you to donate plasma, which is not any more painful than giving blood despite what others here may tell you. It's more time consuming than giving blood, since you need to be examined first (which took a few hours) and it takes over an hour to donate plasma. But you can do it frequently (2x per week, I think) since your blood is returned to you immediately after the plasma is separated via the same needle.\n\nThe place where I used to do it in Iowa paid about $10-20 per week, with incentives like "if you donate 4 or more times per month, you get an extra $50."\n\nSo if that's something that interests you, call around in your area and you might have a plasma donation center close by. It's really not that big a deal and you'll save lives while earning money. \nGood luck.
7057
I think he meant in lieu of a free lunch by other means (and mostly likely a dig on your mutual employer for not offering said free lunch).  I could be wrong but the expression, I believe, originated from the fact that some blood centers offer donors a free lunch when donating.  Work bleeds you dry...ergo they should offer you a blood lunch.  That's how I would have read the comment anyway....
473525
"If you had hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) caused by a virus, or unexplained jaundice (yellow discoloration of the skin), since age 11, you are not eligible to donate blood. This includes those who had hepatitis with Cytomegalovirus (CMV), or Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), the virus that causes Mononucleosis. \n\nAcceptable if you had jaundice or hepatitis caused by something other than a viral infection, for example: medications, Gilbert's disease, bile duct obstruction, alcohol, gallstones or trauma to the liver. \n\nIf you ever tested positive for hepatitis B or hepatitis C , at any age, you are not eligible to donate, even if you were never sick or jaundiced from the infection."\n\nhttp://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/0,1082,0_557_,00.html
1067214
For my life between 19 and 35, I donated at my various work places for a total of 46 times.\n\nBack in the  mid 80's, folks started to hear that AIDS was contracted by "donated blood". It was kind of stupid and funny that less people volunteered their blood because the 'risk' of AIDS. \n\nOf course they have a ton of questions to try and weed out the donors that are 'practicing' homo-sexuals, going back 25 years. Even then they expect some to donate blood, - just to have their blood tested for AIDS. They give those deviants one last chance to use a bar code sticker that says "don't use my BLOOD".\n\nOh, btw, I met my wife while we were giving blood.
144984
There are blood banks in quite a few cities in Oklahoma.  In Norman, one of them (at least it was, still should be) was on Campus Corner.  Just look them up in a phone book or Internet yellow pages.
770386
What a nice thing to do-I'd do it myself too if I could but I had a transfusion once so now they don't allow it-\nIf it wasn't for people like you I wouldn't be here.\n\nThank you.