"Teen Blood Donors Have Higher Risk Of Donation-related Complications"
This article says that teen donors are more prone to "fainting and bruising" than their elderly counterparts.
This has been discovered with the recent Red Cross campaigns for high schools. I remember my own high school blood drive...If I recall correctly [which I think I do, but hey, I have repressed quite a lot of high school] all the preppy girls were just really big pussies about giving blood, and if they fainted or something they got extra attention.
Also, if you're post high school and you know you get dizzy or bruise badly, what is going to draw you into the donor chair if there is no National Honor Society credit hanging over your head, huh? So I think that this study is a little warped.
All this aside, I support high school blood drives. Anything to increase our ever shrinking supply of eligible donors.
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