Hi everybody...

A perfectly young healthy Blood Donor walking into a Blood Bank is found to have a small area of hypopigmentation (2cm approx diameterA) on the forearm ...he is not on any medication....the hypopigmented patches does not seem to be infective. or does not look like any chronic disease as he had taken opinion from various leding dermatologists.

On this cosmetic ground alone, are we justified in rejecting this donor ?

I find lots of senior well experienced collegaues in this site....

I am keen to get the inputs from them on this please !

I am interested to know, what they will do in such a situation in their organisation ?

what is the reason they will give to the donor, in case of rejecting him ?

Does AABB has any specific clause for "an uncomplicated skin lesion " of this sort ?

in anticiaption,

engeekay2003

:confused:

Are you perhaps seeing a minor case of vitiligo (which is not uncommon, often hereditary patchy loss of normal pigmentation)? If so, this has no bearing on an individual's eligibility to donate.

Donna