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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?

Written by lk1st

February 10th, 2010 at 11:49 am

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  1. no, not until the mono it out of your system

    Karen R

    10 Feb 10 at 2:23 pm

  2. 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!

    Sam

    10 Feb 10 at 4:35 pm

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