As the winter gets colder, people are taking medication because they feel under the weather, and this is affecting blood donations. Taichung Blood Center says this is the reason why blood stocks are low during winter. Recently type A and type B blood stocks have fallen below the seven-day safety level, and the center is now calling on members of the public to cultivate the habit of donating blood on a regular basis. Doctors say that a longer period of bad eating and drinking habits can lead to high lipid levels which could result in the blood becoming unfit for use.
Some people worry that eating greasier meals, such as hotpot, during winter will affect blood donation conditions. Tu Shih-chuan, attending physician in the department of Family Medicine at Jen-Ai Hospital in Greater Taichung’s Dali District says that eating ginger duck or hotpot does not mean that blood donated the next day will be unusable. If blood really cannot be used due to high lipid levels, that would be the result of bad drinking and eating habits over a longer period of time.
(Liberty Times, translated by Perry Svensson)
寒流一波波,民眾因身體不適服藥,影響捐血條件。台中捐血中心表示,這也是冬天血量庫存較缺的原因,近日A、B型血量都不足七天安全庫存,呼籲民眾養成定期捐血習慣。醫師則表示,若長期飲食習慣不佳,易有高血脂情況,可能也會導致血液不合用。
Photo: Lo Hsin-chen, liberty times
圖文:自由時報記者羅欣貞
有民眾憂心,冬天常吃火鍋等較油膩的食物,恐影響捐血條件。大里仁愛醫院家醫科主治醫師塗是雋表示,前一天吃薑母鴨或火鍋,隔天捐血不至於不合用,若血液真的因高血脂不合用,應是長期飲食習慣有問題。
(自由時報記者俞泊霖)
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