
To make sure that you are comfortable, please wear clothing with loose sleeves. We will need to roll up your sleeve past your elbow when you donate – to allow easy access to your veins. Light exercise such as walking is fine, but please make sure that you are fully recovered and hydrated prior to your donation. Keeping your body in a rested state is important to give it a chance to replenish the fluids lost during donation, which will help you avoid feeling dizzy or lightheaded and keep you well. ExerciseĪvoid doing any vigorous exercise or heavy lifting the day of your donation – both before and after you’ve donated. It is essential to avoid alcohol before and after donating as this may affect hydration levels and delay recovery. This will help to compensate for the fluids lost during donation, and will help to bring your blood volume levels back to normal. It’s also important to ensure that you are well hydrated in the days leading up to your donation. Please help us reduce our plastic usage by bringing your own refillable bottle. To help prevent this from happening we ask you to drink 500ml of water immediately before you donate - we’ll give this to you before you donate. The fluids that you lose during donation can cause a drop in blood pressure – causing you to feel faint and dizzy. DrinkĪlmost half of the blood that you donate is made up of water. Ensuring that your diet contains foods rich in iron - such as meats and green leafy vegetables - will help to keep you feeling well during and after donation. Having a snack before you donate can help maintain these blood sugar levels. This is important so that you don’t feel lightheaded or dizzy after your donation. Gov.Follow our tips to make your experience pleasant, safe and straightforward.Įating regularly before donating will help to keep your blood sugar levels stable.

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Granholm on Windfall Tax Increasing Prices: We Prefer There Isn't One.As promised, the Queen has indeed devoted her “whole life” to service. While the vast majority in public service and without would have rightly retired decades before their 96th birthday, the Queen continued to undertake public engagements, albeit fewer in number in recent years. While it is obviously clear now, with the Queen’s passing, that she was not well, Elizabeth II was nevertheless photographed at the occasion standing with a stick, smiling, and shaking the hand of the new leader of the British government. In all other 14 cases of this happening in the Queen’s 70 year reign this process took place at Buckingham Palace in London, but the Queen was at her home in Scotland in northern Britain and it was deemed she was too frail to travel, so the politicians travelled to her. The personal embodiment of the state as monarch, the Queen accepted the resignation from former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, before inviting Liz Truss - who had become the leader of Britain’s largest political party the day before - to form a new government and become her Prime Minister shortly afterwards.

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 06: Queen Elizabeth II waits in the Drawing Room before receiving newly elected leader of the Conservative party Liz Truss (Photo by Jane Barlow – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
