Please follow the guidelines for your country/region. Donors may be asked to have lab work repeated every 3-6 months.
Suggested blood tests:1
- HIV I and II
- एचबीवी (Hepatitis B Antigen & Antibodies –if vaccinated, provide record)
- एचसीवी (Hepatitis C)
- एचटीएलवी I और II
- उपदंश
Additional screenings to consider:
- TB (Tuberculosis –once, unless exposed, or symptomatic)
- सीएमवी (Cytomegalovirus –IgG and IgM)
- WNV (West Nile Virus –IgA and IgM)
For blood screening, please visit your healthcare provider, or you may be able to order breastmilk donor blood test panels online.
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- Human Milk Banking Association of North America. Archived. हम्बाना|Donate Milk HMBANA excludes donors who have had a positive blood test result for HIV, एचटीएलवी, Hepatitis B or C, or Syphilis, whose sexual partner is at risk for HIV, who use illegal drugs, who smoke or uses tobacco products, who have received an organ or tissue transplant or a blood transfusion in the last 12 month, who regularly have more than two ounces or more of alcohol per day, who have been in the United Kingdom for more than 3 months or in Europe for more than 5 years since 1980 and who were born in or has traveled to Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger, or Nigeria. ↩︎