{"id":24515,"date":"2014-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/don-de-sang-2\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:25:43","slug":"blood-donation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/faq\/blood-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood donation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People living with&nbsp;<a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/type-1-diabetes\/\"><strong>type 1 diabetes<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;are not eligible to donate blood in Quebec at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A risk assessment is underway by H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec to ensure that blood donation does not have a negative impact on people living with type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, do not hesitate to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hema-quebec.qc.ca\/contact\/index.fr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All people living with&nbsp;<a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/type-2-diabetes\/\"><strong>type 2 diabetes<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;well controlled by lifestyle or medication are eligible to donate blood.&nbsp;S<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are taking insulin, the following criteria must be met:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You&nbsp;<u>must not<\/u>&nbsp;have taken insulin before 2007;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You&nbsp;<u>must not<\/u>&nbsp;have had symptomatic hypoglycaemia in the 30 days before the blood donation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your insulin dose&nbsp;<u>must not<\/u>&nbsp;have been increased or decreased by more than&nbsp;<u>3 units<\/u>&nbsp;in the 30 days before donating blood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like more details on the donor qualification criteria, we suggest that you&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hema-quebec.qc.ca\/sang\/donneur-sang\/puis-je-donner\/diabete.fr.html?mode=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consult the H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec website<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hema-quebec.qc.ca\/contact\/index.fr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact them<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living with&nbsp;type 1 diabetes&nbsp;are not eligible to donate blood in Quebec at this time. A risk assessment is underway by H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec to ensure that blood donation does not have a negative impact on people living with type 1 diabetes. For more information, do not hesitate to&nbsp;contact H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec&nbsp;. All people living with&nbsp;type 2 diabetes&nbsp;well controlled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24351,"menu_order":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"24599,24603,24602,24554,24600,26371","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24515"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32572,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24515\/revisions\/32572"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}