Blood Donation PFAS Debate

Discussions center on using blood or plasma donation to reduce PFAS levels in the body, including regulatory distinctions between paid plasma and unpaid blood, personal experiences, health benefits, and arguments over donating contaminated blood.

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djmips Oct 22, 2025 View on HN

Pedantic quibble - they haven't donated their own blood, maybe just stored.

Double_a_92 Aug 2, 2018 View on HN

"Donating" blood (plasma) seems like a reasonable thing to do.

BobbyTables2 Jun 3, 2025 View on HN

Blood donation organizations hate this one trick!

zdragnar Nov 7, 2022 View on HN

Something of a minor nit, but the US does not allow blood donors to be paid, only plasma donors.

jes5199 Mar 28, 2024 View on HN

he _was_ a donor. he's not likely to be a donor in the future. so why bother?

gruez Dec 11, 2019 View on HN

probably talking about plasma "donations".

graeme Aug 7, 2020 View on HN

Due to a past (super low risk) medical condition, I cannot donate blood. There’s not really any other way to replicate this, right?

mrfusion Jun 18, 2020 View on HN

How is this different than donating plasma?

zzzzzzzza Jun 3, 2017 View on HN

maybe people are more willing to donate blood than money

pacaro Dec 1, 2020 View on HN

I can't donate blood, for fairly bogus reasons, this is true for a surprisingly large subset of the population