Mar
08

Can I give blood if I’ve had mono?

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Someone told me that mono stays in your system forever. I want to give blood to my grandfather who has mesothelioma (lung cancer) but I’ve had mono. Can I still give blood?

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4 Comments

1

According to the Health Library of CNN you have to wait 6 months, but after that, you can!

3

no, not until the mono it out of your system

4

You would have to make sure that you were not in the active phase anymore. So you would need to take a blood test for EBV IgM and IgG to make sure that you no longer had any IgM (an indicator of activity). Someone else said 6 months, but it is possible you could still be in the active phase for more than 6 months so a blood test would need to be done to confirm you’re in the convalescent phase. As long as you have no IgM you should be fine to give blood.
Good luck!

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