You may donate even if you have any of the following conditions:
- Allergies (no infection)
- Asthma (no symptoms)
- Cold sore, fever blister or canker sore
- Diabetes (if stable condition)
- Genital herpes (after lesions clear)
- Heart attack (one year after and no current symptoms or heart medication other than Aspirin)
- Heart surgery (one year after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) or angioplasty with no current symptoms or heart medication other than Aspirin)
- Hemochromatosis
- Major/minor surgery (after healed and released from doctor’s care)
- Pregnancy (six weeks after delivery)
- Stroke (one year after if no physical restrictions and no medications)
- Chlamydia, genital warts (if treated)
- Gonorrhea, syphilis and other venereal diseases (one year after healed)
You are not eligible to donate if you have any of the following conditions:
- AIDS, or at risk for AIDS
- Blood disorders or bleeding tendencies
- Brain or spinal surgery that required a transplant of brain covering (dura mater)
- Cancer (basal cell, squamous cell skin cancers and keratosis), unless removed and healed
- Colds, fever, flu, sore throat, cough, respiratory infection or headache
- Hepatitis or undiagnosed jaundice after age 10
- Melanoma (Must wait five years and obtain pathology approval)
- Positive hepatitis test
Do not donate blood if you have ever tested positive for HIV or if:
- You have ever injected yourself with drugs not prescribed by a physician
- You are a man and had sexual contact with another man in the past 3 months
- You have hemophilia or blood clotting disorder and received clotting factor concentrates