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A member asked:
Can donating blood or platelets have a beneficial impact on cholesterol, triglycerides, and sodium/pressure levels?
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Not a lasting effect: Blood or blood component donation may reduce cholesterol and triglycrides for a day or so but does not have a lasting effect. Given your symptoms you should seek care from a physician.
Answered 2/19/2014
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Not dramatic: While it can help reduce iron build up and exchange, it will only briefly impact blood pressure and lipids. It still is a wonderful public service that is hard to match--how else can you save up to four lives in under an hour while lying around and you get a cookie?
Answered 3/24/2018
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Donating blood: The donation of blood will lower blood volume considerably and thus lower blood pressure - as blood volume rebuilds over days, blood pressure will return to baseline. Cholesterol and TG will not be impacted; total body sodium content will be lowered because most sodium resides in our blood stream.
Answered 3/24/2018
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