To the top. Share your story What has plasma made possible in your life? Tell us. Connect with us Find more news, events, and donor tips. Blood plasma is a pale yellow liquid portion of blood that contains water, electrolytes and proteins. Plasma donated for money is often used in therapeutic treatment of serious health issues such as Hemophilia, severe burns and blood clotting and immunodeficiency disorders.
It is also used to make cosmetics products. In the United States, government regulated commercial companies usually pay for plasma instead of non-profits such as the American Red Cross.
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Continue to the external website » Return to the Grifols Plasma website ». Print page Send page to a friend. Driving Directions Share this. This is not a valid ZIP code. Donation requirements 1. Reward Learn more about the steps to donating plasma here. To schedule your first plasma donation, come to the BPL Center nearest you. On the day of your first donation, you must provide one or more forms of identification that includes the following information: a photo, a signature, date of birth, and social security number.
You must also provide proof of a permanent local address within the donor recruitment area of the facility in which you would like to donate. Donating plasma is a low risk procedure with minimal or no side effects. Before a donor is accepted into the BPL Plasma donor program, he or she must pass a physical examination and a survey of their medical history.
During each subsequent visit, a staff member checks the donor's vital signs and the donor answers questions about their medical history. The body replaces the plasma removed during the donation process quickly; therefore, healthy individuals can donate as often as twice in a seven-day period, with at least one day between donations.
On a donor's first visit, the whole process, including a physical examination provided by BPL Plasma medical personnel and the plasma donation, usually takes about two hours.
Repeat donors generally spend approximately an hour in the center, with the average plasmapheresis process taking around 45 minutes. Plasma is processed into a wide variety of lifesaving therapies that benefit thousands of people every day. Plasma-based therapeutics are used in the treatment of serious disorders such as hemophilia and immune system deficiencies, and to treat victims of shock and burns. Plasma donors spend up to two hours, as often as twice a week, in our centers to help save someone's life or improve the quality of it.
We merely offer compensation to our donors for their commitment to the program. For more compensation information, contact your local center directly. Occasionally a donor may become light-headed during donation or immediately after.
This is usually remedied by rehydration and can usually be prevented by making sure you are well hydrated before donating. Slight bruising at the site of needle placement is possible, though not common. For each and every donation, a new, sealed, sterile, one-time-use package is used to collect your plasma.
The needle placement site is sterilized. Your blood never leaves the closed system during the plasmapheresis process. Common sense is your best guideline.
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