Why you can't donate blood under 18 years of age?!


Question: Depending upon your location...the rule is either 17 or 18.
With most young people, by that age you've (almost) all reached adult proportions and there is no danger of any problems developing as a result of giving blood. Think of when you were 14 and 15 years of age and how noticeably different you and your contemporaries were in comparative height, weight, body maturation/development, etc. By requiring everyone to wait until that age, the blood services people are trying to be as certain as possible that just about everyone has reached the appropriate body maturity to safely donate blood. It's not discrimination...it's just being careful.


Answers: Depending upon your location...the rule is either 17 or 18.
With most young people, by that age you've (almost) all reached adult proportions and there is no danger of any problems developing as a result of giving blood. Think of when you were 14 and 15 years of age and how noticeably different you and your contemporaries were in comparative height, weight, body maturation/development, etc. By requiring everyone to wait until that age, the blood services people are trying to be as certain as possible that just about everyone has reached the appropriate body maturity to safely donate blood. It's not discrimination...it's just being careful.

well, as far as I know you have to be 16 years of age to donate blood.

People think we are to young and like need the blood more. Plus, 18 means ur an adult and u can do wat you want lol. Please give me a best answer!

Still developing.

Dangerous!!!!!!

what? i donated blood when i was 17. maybe its the state rule or something

As far as I know, that's only a legal restriction having to do with minors not being able to legally give their consent. I have never heard of a medical reason that would prevent a person under 18 from giving blood.

As far as I knew, you could donate blood starting at 16, however, you are required to have parental consent. In addition you must weigh above a certain amount, have no diseases, be taking any drugs, and have a healthy hemoglobin count.

The reason for requiring the parental consent is because as adults, they are essentially taking responsibility for anything that happens to you, and if you are over 18, you are taking responsibility for yourself as an adult. Occasionally, the needle may miss or lightly tear the vein, causing a good deal of bruising.
The responsibility issue is to force the donator or the parents of, to accept liability for any damage to the donator.

Diseases must not be transferred to patients in need of blood transfusions, the hemoglobin count must be high because otherwise it's useless and indicated unhealthy blood production or possibly anaemia, and the weight makes sure you are physically able to endure the loss of a pint of blood.

It's simply down to being able to give consent.

I donated on more than one occasion when I was 17, because that's the age limit here.

EDIT:

Also, it was without parental consent. The UBS came to school in their nifty mobile home, and we donated.. but you had to be 17.

you have drugs in your system you filthy teenagers





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