Donation Requirements

• A person CANNOT donate if currently taking:
  • Antibiotics for infection
  • Accutane
  • Propecia
  • Proscar
    
• You CAN donate if only taking: 
  • Vitamins
  • Birth control
  • Allergy meds
  • Blood pressure meds
  • Thyroid replacements
  • Female hormones
  • Anxiety meds
  • Cholesterol meds
  • Most diabetes meds/injections.

• You can donate immediately after the following vaccinations:
  • Allergy shots
  • Influenza
  • Tetanus shot
    
• Hepatitis B - wait 28 days

• If you are not feeling well or healthy on the day of your donation, you need to wait until you are feeling well and healthy again. 

• Diabetes - must be controlled by medication and/or diet
• Cancer - can donate right after curative treatments for basal and squamous cell skin cancers. For most other cancers, wait 5 years after completing all treatments. 
• Blood Transfusion - wait 3 months from the time of transfusion
• Tissue Transplant. -wait 3 month from the time of procedure

• It is ok to donate six weeks after the end of your pregnancy. 

• Ears - Ok if performed with a single-use device. If not, wait 3 months.
• Body - Ok if performed in a state-licensed facility. If not, wait 3 months. 

• You can donate if it was performed at a licensed SD, IA, or NE facility; otherwise, wait 3 months. 

• Must wait 56 days between whole blood donations and 16 weeks between automated double red blood cell donations. 

*Please note that Community Blood Bank staff members will make the final determination on eligibility prior to the blood donation.

• If you have been diagnosed with AIDS/HIV infection or have certain risk factors. 
• If you have had melanoma, lymphoma, leukemia, or other blood cancers. 
• If you were a recipient of a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom, Ireland, or France since 1980.

• If you have spent (cumulative) more than 3 months in the United Kingdom from 1980 through 1996.
• If you have spent (cumulative) 5 years or more in France or Ireland from 1980 through 2001.