Curious about whether you can donate blood? Learn the age, weight, and other considerations for donating blood in this free video clip from a blood donation center.
Barry Hooker has been working for the American Red Cross for 25 years. Currently, he is the director of recruitment for his region.
Giving blood is fairly simple, believe it or not. We are trying to get the American public to hear us. You have to be seventeen years old. And again that's the State ruling so depends on the State you're in. And you need to check with your guidelines there. See if that's a requirement sixteen or seventeen. A hundred and ten pounds that's pretty much the standard across the nation. And that is set by the FDA. In fairly good health, and what we mean by that is, you know, you may have few low things going on but you're in generally good health. Fairly active. You know, you can come in and give blood. The population, today most of us are active. You know, we're at here doing things and we?re eligible to give blood. Believe it or not. Most of the time we talk to first time donors and we're talking to them one on one or in a group. And we'll for questions or I met a blood donor outside. Can you tell me why you've never given blood before? And people will tell you. Because I've never been asked. Now to me that's astounding because that's what we do for the good of the society. Why are you asking? But most people say the reason they've given blood is because they've never been asked directly. Or never been in a situation where they've known there was a need for blood. Either
