A 1990 study investigated violent behavior among severely mentally ill individuals in 1,401 randomly selected families who were members of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). In the preceding year, 11 percent of these individuals were reported to have physically harmed another person.
You can donate after you have finished a course of oral antibiotics for a bacterial or viral infection as long as you have taken the last pill as of the date of donation. If you received an antibiotic by injection, you can donate as long as it has been 10 days since your last injection.
With many, you will not be deferred from donating. You can begin donating after six weeks. There is no waiting period to donate after receiving a flu shot. Healthy individuals can donate whole blood every 56 days, plasma every 28 days and platelets every 7 days. Donors who give a double red blood cell donation are eligible again after 112 days. Yes, if the piercing was obtained at a facility that is approved by OBI.