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.
Whole blood donors can donate every 56 days. Red blood cells are the oxygen carrying cells. They can take two weeks or longer to fully return to normal. You can donate platelets (apheresis donation) every two weeks â up to 24 times in 12 months. Platelet and plasma components are regenerated in the body more quickly than red cells. Platelets will return to normal levels within 24-48 hours of donating.