The Benefits Of Donating Blood

THE BENEFITS OF DONATING BLOOD The holidays, hectic travel schedules, bad weather, and sickness all make it difficult to donate blood during the winter. That's why January is National Blood Donor Month – to encourage giving blood and boost the seasonal short supply. Here are some reasons why you might want to consider donating this month. MUCH IS NEEDED EVERY 2 SECONDS: 41,000+: 30M: Total blood components Frequency that someone in the U.S. needs blood Blood donations needed per day transfused each year in the U.S. 70,000+: 3 PINTS: Average red blood cell Americans affected by transfusion sickle cell disease Sickle cell patients can require frequent transfusions 1.6M: 100 PINTS: Amount of blood that can People diagnosed with cancer last year be required for a single car Many will need blood dally during accident victim chemotherapy treatments YOU CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE ROUGHLY 38% 1 donation can help save the of Americans are eligible to lives of 3 people donate blood, but.. - LESS THAN 10% actually do so If you gave blood every 56 days - the minimum walt time required from one donation to the next - between the ages of 17 and 76, you'd: Calendar Reminder GIVE BLOOD! Donate 48 gallons of blood sav 1.000 lives IT'S A SAFE AND SIMPLE PROCESS Needles are sterile, and are used only once The four-part process consists of: Registration Mini-physical Donation Refreshments All told, it only takes about Additionally, the mini-physlcal 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES might help you uncover an unknown health condition. YOU COULD IMPROVE YOUR OWN HEALTH Giving blood can help reduce the risk of: 88% Harmful iron stores Cancer Heart Attacks 1 in every 200 Americans Excess iron levels can sometimes Donating once per year could reduce unknowingly suffers from also lead to a higher risk of cancer your chances of suffering a heart hemochromatosis, a disease that - accordingly, those who donated attack by 88%. causes unsafe levels of iron in the blood were found less likely to blood - removal of red blood cells develop cancer. is the preferred treatment. WHAT WILL YOUR REASON BE FOR DONATING BLOOD THIS MONTH? SOURCES: CARRINGTON COLLEGE https://www.adrp.org/promoting-donation/natl-blood-donor-month/ http://www.redcrossblood.org/learn-about-blood/blood-facts-and-statistics 2016 Carrington College. All rights reserved. http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/health-sciences/blog/surprising-health-benefits-of-donating-blood/ II