Remove those who suffer from Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Convulsive diseases from the list of Donors

People with RLS (syndrome that occurs more in women) usually have ferritin levels below 50 μg / L. The donation of a unit of blood produces an approximate loss of 236 mg of iron, which requires between 3 and 4 months to recover with a normal diet. In the male sex, the allowable donations are four per year, with two months of interval between them, and curiously ferritin is not determined previously. It is therefore infrequent and difficult to interpret that two patients in our series - blood donors for more than 10 years - will have high ferritin levels.

(Source: https://repositorio.uam.es/bitstream/handle/10486/668958/sindrome_peraita_RN_2011.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

What should be done to exclude patients with RLS and Seizure diseases from the List of Potential Donors, even if they remain in the list of potential recipients of Donation, because their illness does not allow them to give but only allows them to receive. In addition, a blood donation that would aggravate your symptoms and that would not be of any use to a recipient of blood donation, receiving a blood donation that does not contain the optimal ferritin levels to get out of a state of illness or recovery. -surgery.

Since the absence of ferritin in the blood of a donor could cause losses in those same levels of ferritin in the blood of those who receive the donation which would lead to donated blood not supplying a function of helping but rather of implying a low in the levels of ferritin in the recipient of the donation, so it is advisable to refrain from requiring convulsive patients with SPI to donate blood so that they can then receive if a need for blood reception is presented to them, given that seizure patients and with RLS only serve as potential recipients, not as potential donors because of the above.

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