Norazihan

I am 45, female, bp 110/70, weighs 63kg, height 164cm, bmi of 23. Able to climb Bukit Tabur . Twice ! A Chemical Engineer. And a mother of four. Did I tell you that I've climb Bukit Pelindung, Kuantan? Well that story some other time. Well! Fantastic! You'd think. This is one well rounded woman ha! But my glucose level was 7.3, that makes me a pre-diabetic person. What was that? Pre-diabetic? Well that means in Malay "disyaki kencing manis." That was in November last year. Last Monday I was CONFIRMED with diabetes (kencing manis.) Doktor kata penyakit kencing manis ni tiada ubat. Ia cuma boleh dikawal. Kene kurangkan berat badan, no sugar, no susu pekat, no rambutan, no pisang, makan nasi satu cawan je, ambik sayur and ulam banyak2. Sedih. So skrang doktor start medication utk kawal gula lah. Ubat ni mujarab katenye. Saya kene turunkan berat badan, bila berat turun, cholesterol pun turun dan gula pun akan turun dan mudah dikawal. Kata nurse pulak, ubat yg dibagi tu u...

Does donating blood invalidate wudoo’? Can a muslim donate blood, and if so can he read salaah straight after donating blood? Praise be to Allaah. If it is necessary to carry out a blood transfusion, there is no sin on the patient, the doctors or the donor, because of the following: Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “… and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind…” [al-Maa’idah 5:32] . (Melayu) . This aayah indicates the virtue of being the cause of saving the life of someone whom it is forbidden to kill, and there is no doubt that the doctors and blood donors are among the causes of saving the life of patients who are at risk of dying if a blood transfusion is not carried out. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “He has forbidden you only the dead animals, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that which is slaughtered as a sacrifice ...

Preparing Donors for Allogeneic Transplants Blood stem cells are extracted most often from the peripheral blood of donors and occasionally from their bone marrow. Because there are significantly fewer stem cells in peripheral blood than in bone marrow, doctors prepare peripheral blood donors by injecting them with a series of growth factors to move blood stem cells from their marrow into their bloodstream. This increases the blood stem cells concentration 10- to 100-fold in the blood. If stem cells are harvested from bone marrow, the donor is placed under general anesthesia. In a procedure that takes about an hour, marrow is removed through a large needle inserted into the donor's pelvic bones, and it is processed to remove blood and bone fragments. After the collection is completed, the donor may be given a transfusion of his or her own red blood cells from units of blood that were self-donated a week earlier. Apheresis: Harvesting Stem Cells From Peripheral Blood ...