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I actually donate about twice a week to help pay bills. I agree with people hearing about the practice of blood for money and saying "that doesn't sound healthy.". I actually feel awful for 24 hours or more post donation.
It's also really cool you don't get saline anymore because the US is out of it. Just a Powerade and goldfish so you don't pass out driving home
No your donation center is scamming their patrons
I believe it's both. There is a "shortage" which I take is just one more step towards the country falling completely apart due to inept greed: https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-12-04-fda-says-empty-iv-bag-shortage-expected-last-through-march
But I also know that it's cheaper to give people a sports drink and crackers, and people will accept it, because they need the money
We're running out of sterilized salt water? The fuck? How?
I read an article there are all these bullshit health centres popping up that offer saline for anti aging, detox, and hangovers.
They're using so much saline that hospitals are forced to ration it so rich dumbasses can have expensive urine
I think something like a third or up to half of the total supply was produced in Puerto Rico or some south eastern state that got destroyed in a hurricane during the first trump admin. So that is one disaster/problem you can very squarely blame on Trump.
Tampa is where s lot of the production is.
Honestly sounds weird to give saline after a blood/plasma donation if someone is fit and healthy. The Red Cross doesn't do that in Australia (and it's not paid just voluntarily). Just give you a bunch of water and something to eat. If your gut is working, oral replacement of lost volume is pretty quick.
Probably the difference in the US is the standards are lower and the people they're taking plasma from a less healthier, done more frequently, more vulnerable etc.
Yea saline is available on Amazon rn lol
Probably not sterile IV saline. There's been a shortage of that and G5W for years.