Comments on: Giving up giving Blood? http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/06/21/giving-up-giving-blood/ Sinéad Gleeson's blog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:06:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Sinéad http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/06/21/giving-up-giving-blood/#comment-61 Sinéad Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:32:25 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/06/21/giving-up-giving-blood/#comment-61 Great to hear you're a donor Fiona, well done you. They're two completely seperate types of donation. Platelets are donated via a process called aphresis. It's still painless but takes a little longer and requires donors to have pretty strong veins. Great to hear you’re a donor Fiona, well done you.

They’re two completely seperate types of donation. Platelets are donated via a process called aphresis. It’s still painless but takes a little longer and requires donors to have pretty strong veins.

]]> By: Fi http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/06/21/giving-up-giving-blood/#comment-59 Fi Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:08:01 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/06/21/giving-up-giving-blood/#comment-59 Well done Sinead and thanks for informing us about this additional need in the blood service I thought that platelets could be seperated from full blood donations and that there was no need to make a seperate donation so I will definately ask about it when I am in the clinic the next time. I believe that despite the negative publicity involving the IBTS that the bottom line is that donations save lives and the more of us that do it the more likely it is that when someone we know needs blood they can be properly looked after. Well done Sinead and thanks for informing us about this additional need in the blood service I thought that platelets could be seperated from full blood donations and that there was no need to make a seperate donation so I will definately ask about it when I am in the clinic the next time. I believe that despite the negative publicity involving the IBTS that the bottom line is that donations save lives and the more of us that do it the more likely it is that when someone we know needs blood they can be properly looked after.

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