To be a blood donor you are required to have a haemoglobin level above 12,5 or 13,5 g/dl (female or male, respectively).

Your haemoglobin level is measured with every donation.

If you have a strong tendency to bleeding we advice you not to donate.

If you have anemia you can not donate blood.

If you have haemochromatosis you can become a blood donor if are otherwise healthy and satisfy the criteria for blood donation.

Please, inform us about your haemochromatosis when you register, and read here about haemochromatosis and blood donation.

Donors with haemochromatosis are treated equally to other donors and can not donate if deferred for other reasons.

The blood center can not be your primary health contact, you need to go to regular ferritin controls with your own doctor.

You can not donate more than 4 times a year in the blood center or elsewhere. If you need more frequent venesectioning, you are per definition not healthy. In this case you should cease blood donations temporarily until you have been stabilised on maintenance ferritin levels.

If you have had one venous thrombosis you can donate blood if you don't use antithrombotic medication.

If you have had an arterial thrombosis, or repeated venous thrombosis, you can not be a blood donor.

Cerebral stroke (apoplexia, TIA) excludes you from further blood donation.

Coagulation disorders: contact us for an individual assessment.

If you suffer from diabetes you will normally not be accepted as a blood donor.

If your condition is regulated using lifestyle interventions and you don't use antidiabetics, you can contact us for an individuall assessment.

If you have a bleeding tendency caused by platelet pathology or coagulation factor defects you are normally not accepted as a blood donor.