- Blood fights against infection and helps heal wounds, keeping you healthy.
- Blood makes up about 7% of your body's weight.
- A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his or her body.
- White blood cells are the body's primary defense against infection.
- Granulocytes, a type of white blood cell, roll along blood vessel walls to search and destroy bacteria.
- Red blood cells carry oxygen to the body's organs and tissue.
- There are about one billion red blood cells in two to three drops of blood.
- Red blood cells live about 120 days in the circulatory system.
- Platelets help blood to clot and give those with leukemia and other cancers a chance to live.
- Apheresis is a special kind of blood donation that allows a donor to give specific blood components, such as platelets.
- If all blood donors gave 2 to 4 times a year, it would help prevent all blood shortages.
- The fear of Blood is called Hemophobia or Hematophobia. Common symptoms of this fear are nausea, fear of dying, sweating, dry mouth, etc. It only takes a realization to overcome it.
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