Frequently Asked Questions

If you had a medical treatment before (including herbal medicine), you will mostly be temporarily deferred for about a week. As the reasons of taking medication is crucial for donor center to evaluate whether the donor is suitable to undergo donation. Please provide more information, or contact us within office hours (Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm), nurses will directly offer detailed recommendations individually for concerned donors.

Basically, adding suitable amount of herbal into our daily diet like soup or dishes, taking herbal health products/ Traditional Chinese Medicine as remedies used promoting health does not affect blood donation, as long as donors feel well. If you had taken Traditional Chinese Medicine for treatment of medical problem, you will be temporarily deferred for 3 days after recovery and taken off the medication. Nurses will offer recommendations individually for the concerned donors.

If there is no fever nor having antibiotics or antiviral drugs, donors are allowed to donate blood after clear of disease and off medication after 3 days.

However, if you have taken antibiotics or antiviral drugs, you will be deferred for one week; if you have a fever, you will be deferred for 2 weeks.

It is advised to first consult with your doctor to follow up your health condition. In fact, if complication never happened, with stable blood pressure, and there was no change of dosage within 4 weeks, then donors with hypertension are indeed eligible to donate blood.

It is advised to first consult with your doctor to follow up your health condition. If your disease is now under control with no complication, and at the same time, insulin is not required to be injected, along with no change of dosage within 4 weeks, then donors with diabetes are indeed eligible to donate blood.

It is advised to first consult with your doctor to follow up your health condition. If your disease is now under control with no complication, with steady and normal cholesterol level, and there was no change of dosage within 4 weeks, then donors had high cholesterol level are indeed eligible to donate blood.

Pregnant women are required to absorb more iron for healthy foetus. It is relatively common for women to develop iron deficiency during pregnancy if there is no adequate supplementary of iron, and an exacerbated situation may lead to anemia. Moreover, regardless of women who had natural labour or caesarean section, blood loss is commonly seen during labour, which causes loss of iron. To ensure postpartum women have sufficient amount of iron storage in their body, we advise female with such history to wait for 6 months until another blood donation again. 

Anyone who is diagnosed with mild Thalassemia can give blood as long as he or she passes the Hemoglobin test and health screening.