It’s the recipients of many transfusions who may need alpheresis, not the donor. The ferritin/iron build up from the donors blood accumulate in the recipient. It takes more than a few or several transfusions to be at risk of hemochromatosis.
Glad you are better....I wish a donor could give directly to a person, but evidently it all goes in the same bank...from what I’ve heard.
It takes more than a few or several transfusions to be at risk of hemochromatosis.
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Having more stored iron than you need creates problems.
If blood ferritin is less than 70 ng/ml, the person has an iron deficiency.