Yes, provided your asthma is well-controlled, and depending on the medications you’re taking.

Daily preventatives and any inhalants won’t affect whether you can give, but oral or injected corticosteroids or mepolizumab might — it’s best to have a chat to one of our Medical Professionals on 13 14 95 to double check.

Yes – there are no specific restrictions on people who are intersex and you are not required to tell staff that you are intersex. However, at present, our process requires you to select either male or female when registering to donate. We appreciate that our donor database will not accommodate the gender of everyone. Our eligibility criteria will be applied according to the gender that you…

You can donate one week after you’ve made a full recovery, but you must stay home while you’re showing any symptoms at all.

If you've had helicobacter pylori infection (stomach ulcer), you can donate five days after you’ve completed treatment and have no symptoms. However, if you’ve had an endoscopy, you might need to wait a bit longer. See the endoscopy FAQ.

It depends on the cause of the diarrhoea.

If you have food poisoning or a viral bug, wait one week after you’ve recovered to make sure you’re well enough to donate.

If it’s bacterial, you’ll need to wait longer — four weeks after recovering. And then, if you had a Yersinia infection, you’ll only be able to give plasma until a stool test shows you aren’t infected anymore.

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We ask that you don’t donate until one week after you’re fully recovered and feeling fit and well. Even if you’re only experiencing mild symptoms, like a runny nose, please stay home to rest and recover.

Yes, if you have mild allergies you can donate, even when taking antihistamines for treatment. However, there are times when you may not be able to donate.

You may not be able to donate if you:

• have an allergy to a substance we use in the donation process
• experience cold urticaria (red, raised, itchy rashes on the skin after exposure to the cold)
• have a severe…