Blood donation contraindications

Every healthy person over 18 years old with no contraindications to donation and weight more than 50 kg can become a donor.

But only a man with a capital letter can become a donor of blood and its components. A person who is willing to get up early, spend his time to save someone's life.

Contraindications

At each visit to the Blood Service institution, a potential donor undergoes a free medical examination, which includes an appointment with a transfusiologist and a preliminary laboratory test.

At the same time, there are a number of contraindications to donation: permanent, that do not depend on the duration of the disease and the results of treatment, and temporary - valid only for a certain period.

Permanent contraindications are infectious and parasitic diseases, oncology, blood diseases, and a number of other conditions.

Perhaps you will be disappointed that you are not be able to make donation in the presence of absolute contraindications.
However, the Blood Service hopes that you will understand our main task - ensuring the safety of blood donor components for patients.

The presence of contraindications to donation does not mean that you can not contribute to the development of voluntary blood donation!
In the section «Volunteers» you can learn how to help the Donor Movement. Save lives with the Blood Service!

Temporary contraindications have different terms depending on the cause. The most common prohibitions are: tatto, piercing or acupuncture treatment (120 calendar days), tonsillitis, influenza, SARS (30 calendar days after recovery), pregnancy and lactation (1 year after childbirth, 90 calendar days after lactation), vaccinations.

List of medical contraindications for donating blood and its components

(according to the Order of the Health Ministry of the Russian Federation dated October 28, 2020 No. 1166n «On approval of the procedure for donors to undergo a medical examination and a list of medical contraindications (temporary and permanent) for donating blood and (or) its components and the timing of the withdrawal to which a person is subject if temporary medical contraindications, from donation of blood and (or) its components»)

Permanent medical contraindications

1. Infectious and parasitic diseases:

disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and C viruses,
syphilis, congenital or acquired,
tuberculosis (all forms),
brucellosis,
typhus,
tularemia,
leprosy (Gansen's disease),
African trypanosomiasis,
Chagas disease,
leishmaniasis,
toxoplasmosis,
babesiosis,
chronic Q fever,
echinococcosis,
filariasis,
dracunculiasis,
a repeated positive test result for markers of the disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection),
a repeated positive test result for markers of viral hepatitis B and C,
repeated positive test result for markers of the causative agent of syphilis.

2. Malignant neoplasms.

3. Diseases of the blood, hematopoietic organs and individual disorders involving the immune mechanism.

4. Diseases of the central nervous system (organic disorders).

5. Complete absence of hearing and (or) speech, and (or) vision.

6. Mental disorders and behavioral disorders in a state of exacerbation and (or) representing a danger to the patient and others.

7. Mental and behavioral disorders caused by the use of psychoactive substances.

8. Diseases of the circulatory system:

hypertensive (hypertonic) heart disease II - III degree,
cardiac ischemia,
thromboangiitis obliterans,
nonspecific aortoarteritis,
phlebitis and thrombophlebitis,
endocarditis,
myocarditis,
heart disease (congenital, acquired).

9. Diseases of the respiratory system:

bronchial asthma,
bronchiectasis,
emphysema.

10. Diseases of the digestive system:

Achilles gastritis,
chronic liver diseases, including unspecified, toxic liver damage,
calculous cholecystitis with recurring attacks and cholangitis phenomena,
cirrhosis of the liver.

11. Diseases of the genitourinary system in the stage of decompensation:

diffuse and focal lesions of the kidneys,
urolithiasis disease.

12. Connective tissue diseases, as well as acute and (or) chronic osteomyelitis.

13. Radiation sickness.

14. Diseases of the endocrine system in the stage of decompensation.

15. Diseases of the eye and adnexa:

uveitis,
iritis,
iridocyclitis,
chorioretinal inflammation,
trachoma,
myopia 6 diopters or more.

16. Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue:

psoriasis,
erythema,
eczema,
pyoderma,
sycosis,
pemphigus (pemphigus),
dermatophytosis,
furunculosis.

17. Surgical interventions (resection, amputation, removal of an organ (stomach, kidney, spleen, ovaries, uterus, etc.)), transplantation of organs and tissues, resulting in permanent disability (I and II disability groups), xenotransplantation of organs.

18. Persistent disability (I and II groups of disability).

19. Female donor for donation of 2 units of erythrocyte mass or suspension obtained by apheresis.

20. Persons with repeated non-specific reactions to markers of human immunodeficiency viruses, hepatitis B and C and the causative agent of syphilis.

21. Persons with repeatedly detected alloimmune antibodies to erythrocyte antigens (with the exception of plasma donors for the production of drugs).

22. Persons with re-detected anti-A1 extra-agglutinins (excluding plasma donors for drug production).

Temporary medical contraindications

Name

Withdrawal period

Body weight less than 50 kg

Up to 50 kg body weight

Under 20 y.o. for donation of 2 units of red blood cells or suspension obtained by apheresis

Before the age of 20

Body weight less than 70 kg for donation of 2 units of red blood cells or suspension obtained by apheresis

Up to 70 kg body weight

Hemoglobin less than 140 g/l for donation of 2 units of red blood cells or suspension obtained by apheresis

Until hemoglobin reaches 140 g/l

Body temperature above 37 °C

Before normalization of body temperature (37 C and below)

Pulse - less than 55 beats per minute and more than 95 beats per minute

Until normalization of the pulse from 55 to 95 beats per minute

Arterial pressure: systolic less than 90 and more than 149 mm of mercury diastolic - less than 60 and more than 89 mm of mercury

Before normalization systolic: 90 - 149 mm of mercury; diastolic: 60 - 89 mm of mercury.

Body mass index

Less than 18,5 and more than 40

Non-compliance of the results of the blood group study of AB0, Rh affiliation, antigens C, c, E, e, K with the results of the study at the previous donation

Until a confirmatory study is performed

Transfusion of blood and (or) its components

120 days from the date of transfusion

Primary detection in a blood sample of a donor of alloimmune antibodies to erythrocyte antigens

Until confirmation of the absence of alloimmune antibodies to erythrocyte antigens in the blood sample of the donor, not earlier than 180 days after the initial detection

Surgery, including induced abortion

120 days from the date of surgery

Therapeutic and cosmetic procedures with violation of the integrity of the skin (tattoo, piercing, acupuncture, etc.)

120 days from the date of last procedure

Pending confirmation of the absence of markers for viral hepatitis B and (or) viral hepatitis C, and (or) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection) and (or) syphilis, but not earlier than 120 days after receiving the questionable laboratory results

120 calendar days after termination of last contact

Questionable result for markers of viral hepatitis B and/or viral hepatitis C and/or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease and/or syphilis

Until confirmation of the absence of markers of viral hepatitis B and (or) viral hepatitis C, and (or) the disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection), and (or) the causative agent of syphilis, but not earlier than 120 days after receiving questionable lab result

The transferred infectious diseases

Malaria in anamnesis with no symptoms and adverse immunological tests

3 years

Typhoid fever after recovery and complete clinical examination in the absence of severe functional disorders

1 year

Angina, influenza, acute respiratory viral infection

30 days after recovery

Transferred infectious and parasitic diseases not listed in the list of permanent and temporary contraindications

120 days after recovery

Acute or chronic inflammatory processes during aggravation regardless of localization

30 calendar days after the end of the acute period

Inflammation of stomach and (or) duodenal ulcer

1 year from the date of purchase of the acute period

Kidney diseases not listed in point 12 of the list of permanent contraindications

1 year from the moment of relief of the acute period

Allergic diseases in the stage of exacerbation

60 days from the moment of relief of the acute period

Pregnancy, lactation

1 year after childbirth, 90 calendar days after the end of lactation

Vaccination:

Vaccination with inactivated vaccines (including tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, paratyphoid, cholera, influenza), anatoxins

10 days after vaccination

Live vaccine (including brucellosis, plague, tularemia, tuberculosis, smallpox, rubella, oral poliomyelitis), tetanus serum (in the absence of acute inflammation at the injection site)

30 days after vaccination

Vaccination with recombinant vaccines (including viral hepatitis B, coronavirus infection)

30 days after vaccination

introduction of immunoglobulin against hepatitis B

120 days after vaccination

introduction of immunoglobulin against tick-borne encephalitis

120 days after vaccination

rabies vaccination

1 year after vaccination

The medication

antibiotics

14 days after the day of the intake

analgesics, anticoagulants, antiplatelet agents (including salicylates)

3 days after the day of the intake

Alcohol intake

48 hours

Deviation of peripheral blood composition limits and biochemistry

Until the permissible limits of the indicator values are reached, but not earlier than 30 days

Indicator

Limits of indicator values

Hemoglobin: men women

130 g/dl and more 120 g/dl and more

Hematocrit: men women

0,40 and more 0,38 and more

Platelet count

from 180 x 109/L

Red blood cell count men women

4,0 x 1012/L and more 3,8 x 1012/L and more

White blood cell count

от 4 x 109/L до 9 x 109/L

Total protein

from 65 g/dL to 85 g/dL

Protein fraction ratio (albumin, globulin)

No deviations from the normative values specified in the instructions for the reagent kits and methods used

Bloodborne diseases — infectious diseases, the causative agent of which can be transmitted with donated blood or its components.

Transfusion — (from the Latin tranfusio — «transfusion») — an operation to transfuse the components or products of donor blood to the recipient.