Not eligible for blood donation:

• If insulin treatment is required.

• If peripheral vascular disease is present, have wounds that heal poorly, have had limb necrosis or have had an amputation.

• If complications such as heart failure, kidney failure, neuropathy, affect on eyes are present.

• If repeated fainting, dizziness or hypoglycemia symptoms.

• If the injection site is swollen, not completely healed or signs of infection.

Further information:

Diabetes is a metabolic disease caused by a lack of insulin in the body. Without insulin, blood sugar levels rise. There are two types of diabetes, type I (insulin-dependent) and type II (non-insulin-dependent).

If a donor has a glucose monitoring device to manage their diabetes and is otherwise eligible according to the above criteria, then as long as there is no inflammation or infection at or around the site of the skin sensor, accept.

See: Insulins and analogues, Blood glucose lowering drugs, excl. insulin