{"id":876,"date":"2018-08-16T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddosborne.wordpress.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2023-03-13T19:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:24:42","slug":"donating-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/pay-it-forward\/2018\/08\/16\/donating-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Donating Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often donate blood, have been doing it for 3 decades now. My blood has an enzyme that is needed for treating premature babies and burn victims, so I try to always make myself available when the vampires (Red Cross) call, something they never seem to forget! I have often been curious if donating blood lowers (temporarily) your blood pressure, so I decided today to do a little test. I have a blood pressure monitor that I use everyday to keep me inline, doctor&#8217;s order, so I hooked myself up this morning at it was 122\/74 with 50 heartbeats per minute, slightly elevated. The Red Cross checked it before donating as well, 124\/70 with 54 beats\/minute. After donating blood, and eating lunch, I tried again. Now it is 115\/63 and 59 beats\/minute, normal pressure. I realize this is anecdotal, subjective, and not very scientific, but following the blood donation my BP was in the normal range, something I have not seen in months.<\/p>\n<p>So here is my plan. Instead of taking my blood pressure medicine, I will just drain a pint of blood each day, I seem to have too much \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Remember, always give 100%, unless you are donating blood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often donate blood, have been doing it for 3 decades now. My blood has an enzyme that is needed for treating premature babies and burn victims, so I try to always make myself available when the vampires (Red Cross) call, something they never seem to forget! I have often been curious if donating blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pay-it-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}