why is that you can not give blood if you have gotten a tattoo or a piercing in the last year or if you are sick? A month ago the blood donation mobile center came to my school to take blood, my friend REALLY! wanted to give blood, and she had just had her tongue done a few months back, would of been bad if she did not tell them that it was a new piercing when she donated the blood? she had got her tongue pierced, but she had taken oiut....
2007-10-10 07:20:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
You should not give blood after being tattooed in the past year because of the increased risk of hepatitis.
While the risk is only slightly increased, it's important to avoid making an already very sick person even sicker; and of course, you are not giving your blood to healthy people.
If you are sick, you can't donate because there is a chance the illness may be passed to the person getting the blood.
Your friend can give blood in a year. The point is to be helpful by donating blood, not hurtful by donating blood which could kill or injure someone.
2007-10-10 07:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by Jodie G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that restriction is there because it is possible for disease to be spread through tattoo guns and piercing needles at less sanitary shops. Some of the disease may have a longer incubation period and not show up in routine blood screenings for up to a year. That being the case, they're right in not wanting to take chances by giving that blood to someone else. Because you never know for sure.
2007-10-10 14:31:29 · answer #2 · answered by Christine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason they reject people who got tattoos or piercings within the past year is due to the possibility that they may have contracted a blood transmitted disease (through dirty needles). The reason the don't take people who are sick is because their immune system is already down and they can't afford to lose that much blood themselves, the same goes for people who are anemic.
2007-10-10 14:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by Kansas Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
becuase the needle used to do tatoos or piercings could have been contaminated with anything from hepatitus to HIV. Some parlors don't use proper steriliazation techniques. sometimes it takes a year from symptoms to how. They'd rather play it safe than sorry.
2007-10-10 14:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by christigmc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋