tdtid
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I think the real problem with this link is that saying we can't donate blood if we have chronic lyme or even babs is fine, but in order to enforce it, they need to go to the root and have better testing for these illnesses.
I went five years undiagnosed and have both lyme and babs. I tested negative THREE times on the Elisa test, so by CDC standards, I didn't have lyme or any of these co infections.
Telling us we can't donate after our diagnosis is one thing, but look how many slip through and donate because doctors said nothing was wrong with them or it was all in their head.
The rules are going to need better testing to know if indeed a person is infected instead of most of us being undiagnosed for many years.
Cathy
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Cheryl
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The scary part is certainly those infected donors who don't know it. But guess what? The guidelines no longer even address those who know they have been infected. The Lyme statements have been removed, and there is simply a basic infection comment to "wait until finished taking antibiotics for an infection (bacterial or viral)."
*** American Red Cross: "Lyme disease - If this is a chronic condition you cannot donate. If you were treated with antibiotics and completely recovered, you can donate 12 months after the last dose of antiobiotics was taken." "Those who have had infections with Chagas Disease or Babesiosis are not eligible to donate." [LYMEINFO NOTE 2009: Their new website no longer contains the first part of this statement.]
UCSF Blood Center "Permanent Deferrals - The following conditions would permanently disqualify an individual as an allogenic or designated blood donor...Brucellosis/Babesiosis...Lyme Disease" [LYMEINFO NOTE 2009: Their new website no longer contains this statement.]
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Just a thought, should we all be saving our own blood in case we need a transfusion some day? Would it be better to get our own pathogens, rather than some other unknown ones in possible tainted blood?
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losferwrds
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On the pre donation questionaire they only ask about babs
I called after redcross testing positive for bart, they didn't even know what it was.
I actually gave blood a few months, the blood mobile comes to my work every 3 months before finally seeing a LLMD, I thought they screened and cleaned all the blood, its crazy, I went to llmd to rule out lyme but they keep saying there is enuff evidence but my tests are lousy
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