Organ Donation

**chenchow** · #21 13-10-2007

On blood donation, you could try out at Tabung Darah Negara, which is located opposite IJN and next to National Library. It is a great place. I have done blood donation during lunch break. So, it is sufficient time to do that. You would need to eat a little (may be biscuits etc), before blood donation.

Unless there is a big group there, it won't take very long.

Hope to see more ReComers share more resources on organ donation, which hopefully could encourage more ReComers to donate their organ, as well as create greater awareness.

GuoSheng · 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by youngyew

High blood pressure? How high?

i wasn't sure though, that was before my organ donation awareness campaign. Then i was quite worried. But my campaign also provided simple medical checkup, i run the test again. And it's normal, fortunately....hahaha..gotta look after my body better i guess.

Btw, how high is considered abnormal for my age? i am 17.
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**youngyew** · #23 15-10-2007

140/90 is the standard high blood pressure definition, but it's always good to keep it at around or lower than 120/80.

Zeroth · #24 15-10-2007

I don't think a high blood pressure is contraindicative of blood donating. What they usually test for before hand is your iron I think. I'll check.

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The Red Cross Website had a very good list of conditions that are incompatible with blood donating, here's the link of the FAQ:
http://www.donateblood.com.au/page.a...ent=30#answer9

Al-Bert · #25 15-10-2007

If high blood pressure is not a contraindicative of blood donation, why the blood pressure of the blood donors need to be measured during the brief examination before their blood is collected?

I'm wondering too why there's a age limit for blood donation... Why those below 18 years old are prohibited from donating blood? It makes no sense to me...

**youngyew** · #26 16-10-2007

I am not entirely sure, but I am guessing that if someone has very low blood pressure, one of the possible factors is low blood volume, and in that case blood donation is discouraged since losing blood in that situation may make that person hypoxic (low oxygen supply to body tissues).

Shoblast · #27 16-10-2007

Yea.. i went to donate blood, and one of the criteria is that i haven't had any hot male homo sex a few weeks prior to donating blood

**youngyew** · #28 16-10-2007

Haha!

By the way, I came across this touching poem about dying and organ donation:

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To Remember Me
(Robert N. Test)

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment, a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped.

When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don?t call this my deathbed. Let it be called the Bed of Life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives.

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby?s face, or love in the eyes of a woman. Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play. Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist. Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve of my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday, a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her window.

Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow. If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses, and all prejudices against my fellow man. Give my sins to the devil. Give my soul to God.

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.

strikingstar · #29 16-10-2007

Drink lots of water the day before if you're gonna donate blood. Helps a lot. The last time I went, the guy next to me had to switch arms halfway cos they couldn't get enough blood from the first arm.

GuoSheng · 09:53 AM

if i am not wrong, being 17 can donate blood provided that your parents are with you...i am nov, so couldn't make it even with my parents.
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youngyew ReCom Addict Administrator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,734	#23 15-10-2007 140/90 is the standard high blood pressure definition, but it's always good to keep it at around or lower than 120/80. __________________ [][][][flickr] Check out our ReCom wiki! Do contribute by writing or editing the existing articles so that everyone now and in the future can benefit from it!

Al-Bert Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 439	#25 15-10-2007 If high blood pressure is not a contraindicative of blood donation, why the blood pressure of the blood donors need to be measured during the brief examination before their blood is collected? I'm wondering too why there's a age limit for blood donation... Why those below 18 years old are prohibited from donating blood? It makes no sense to me...

Shoblast Slightly Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 545	#27 16-10-2007 Yea.. i went to donate blood, and one of the criteria is that i haven't had any hot male homo sex a few weeks prior to donating blood __________________ Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, Study Hard, Be Evil

strikingstar Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 369	#29 16-10-2007 Drink lots of water the day before if you're gonna donate blood. Helps a lot. The last time I went, the guy next to me had to switch arms halfway cos they couldn't get enough blood from the first arm.

GuoSheng Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 239	#30 16-10-2007 if i am not wrong, being 17 can donate blood provided that your parents are with you...i am nov, so couldn't make it even with my parents. ________ Hairy live Last edited by GuoSheng; 09-04-2011 at 09:53 AM.