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CaroMont Health offers blood donation services in conjunction with the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas. This local non profit blood center is regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For more information, visit www.cbcc.us.

Facts about blood & blood donation:

  • Anyone in good health, at least 17 years old, and at least 110 pounds may donate blood every 56 days.

  • Someone needs blood every three seconds.

  • One out of ten hospital patients needs blood.

  • Three: the number of lives saved by one pint of donated blood.

  • Ten pints: amount of blood in the body of an average adult.

  • A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his body.

  • Blood fights infection and helps heal wounds.

  • Four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. AB is the universal recipient,
    O negative is the universal donor.

  • Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood. Shortages of all blood types happen during the summer and winter holidays.

  • 48 gallons: amount of blood you could donate if you begin at age 17 and donate every 56 days until you reach 76 years old.

  • The actual blood donation usually takes less than ten minutes. The entire process -- from the time you sign in to the time you leave -- takes about an hour.

  • Giving blood will not decrease your strength.

  • You cannot get AIDS or any other infectious disease by donating blood.

  • 14 tests (11 for infectious diseases) are performed on each unit of donated blood.

  • 42 days: the shelf life of donated red blood cells.

  • Five days: the shelf life of donated platelets.

  • One year: the shelf life of frozen plasma.

  • 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood -- only 5% do.

  • 17% of non-donors cite "never thought about it" as the main reason for not giving, while 15% say they're too busy.

  • After donating blood, you replace these red blood cells within four weeks.

  • It takes eight weeks to restore the iron lost after donating.

  • White cells are the body's primary defense against infection.

  • The #1 reason donors say they give is because they "want to help others."

  • The #1 reason people say they don't give is because "no one asked me."

  • We're asking. Please give blood.
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