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Can Heart Patient Donate Blood ?

I had DVR (Double Valve Replacement) in 2004 Now I am on following prescribed medicine :

1. Warf 5 mg (Warfarine) 1 OD

2. Ecosprin 75 1 OD

3. Monotrate 5 mg 1 AD

Now I want to confirm if I can donate blood or not

could you help me ???

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  • Marie
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You cannot donate blood while taking warfarin.

    The reason is that your blood will not clot normally and it's considered too risky. Here is a complete list of donor eligibility rules from the American Red Cross (other agencies generally follow these same guidelines):http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/0,1082,0_5...

    Thank you for wanting to, though!

    Source(s): MD and longtime blood donor.
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    there is often a small threat that someone who has had leukemia or lymphoma might nevertheless carry an quite few maximum cancers cells and whilst those have been transferred with the help of transfusion then the guy who gained the donation is at severe threat of arising maximum cancers. there is a lot of blood obtainable so why might you decide directly to take even the slightest threat just to donate slightly blood? whilst the belief in the back of blood donation is noble, the possibility of giving maximum cancers to somebody is merely too massive a threat to take. incredibly spend it sluggish encouraging your human beings who have not had maximum cancers to donate their blood.

  • 1 decade ago

    Doesn't sound like a good idea for you. Also, I don't know if you can donate while on warfarin.

    But you can check with your physician (my first q) and ALSO with the blood collection agency (my second).

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