As of: February 24, 2024, 2:00 p.m
By: Bettina Stuhlweißenburg
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Get to the juice: (from left standing) Christina Kirschenhofer, Franziska Ziegler, Julia Bichler and Veronika Schaidhammer watch as Johann Fellner takes blood from Kathleen Thurnhuber.
Melanie Schwatzer is already sitting on the lounger.
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The blood donation challenge is entering the next round.
This time it's a women's election: The Warngau Dirndl Club nominates three more clubs - after its members had their own blood drawn on Friday evening.
Warngau - Things had recently become quite quiet around the blood donation challenge that Valentin Schwatzer from the Oster-Oberwarngau boys' association launched four years ago (we reported).
The Mitterdarching fire department was the last to accept the challenge in 2022, after which nothing was heard from the initiative, which aims to motivate people to donate blood in a sporty way.
Now Valentin Schwatzer's sister Melanie from the Warngau Dirndl Club is getting back to it: "There is a high need for blood donations," says the 30-year-old human resources clerk.
“Many chronically ill people depend on it.” That’s why you can make a valuable contribution by donating blood.
“With little effort,” emphasizes Schwatzer.
As a young, healthy person, she feels it is her duty: “We young people are the optimal source,” she says.
Many older people are unable to donate due to illness or long-term medication.
Drink plenty of fluids before donating blood
Schwatzer, who is a first-time donor, has, like the other six donors from the Warngau Dirndl Association, prepared for the blood draw on Friday evening in Holzkirchen: “It is important to drink enough beforehand, one and a half to two liters of water.” It is also advisable on the day of Donate well and don't eat too high in fat, as this affects the quality of the plasma.
Schwatzer is convinced that taking blood is actually healthy for the donor's body: "You then have to produce new blood again, and the organism benefits from that." In fact, according to the blood donation magazine of the German Red Cross, doctors at the Charité Berlin have proven that Regular blood donations improve blood pressure in people with high blood pressure.
You also get colds less often and have increased blood defenses.
These are the nominees
Maybe an argument for the three nominees.
This is the case – clubs beware!
- about SV Warngau 1962, the Oster-Oberwarngau boys' club and the SV Warngau youth development club.
If at least one member of each of these clubs has not donated blood by the end of April, the nominees must donate a snack to the dirndl club.
Anian Ziegler, board member of the Oster-Oberwarngau boys' club, says: "We accept the challenge." This is a matter of honor, after all, his club itself launched the challenge a few years ago, at the time under a different management team.
It is still unclear who his club will subsequently nominate: “We still have to discuss that,” says Ziegler.
The board of the youth support association, Andreas Bichler, answered the question whether his club would accept the challenge: “Yes, of course!” His club has 100 members.
The goal is to get at least 15 of them to donate blood.
“I hope we can do that,” says Bichler.
This reduces the chances of a snack for the dirndl club.
Because SV Warngau also wants to take on the challenge: “We still have to familiarize ourselves with the exact process, but we are there,” says board member Christian Schöllner.
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BRK supports the challenge
Patric Nohe from the Bavarian Red Cross blood donation service is very happy about the resumption of the challenge.
“Such actions are extremely important,” he says.
Ultimately, the blood donation service is faced with the challenge of demographic change: the group of those who rely on blood donations is getting larger and the group of potential donors is getting smaller.
“We urgently need young people to donate blood not just once, but continuously,” says Nohe.
Only a few months ago, the previous age limit of 73 years for blood donations was lifted due to the shortage of donors.
“Unfortunately, this only helps to a limited extent because many older people are not even suitable as donors for health reasons.”
According to Nohe, acute cases such as complications during birth or accidents make up the smaller part of the need for blood donation.
“Most of the blood is needed for chronically ill people, for example in cancer therapy.”
By the way: Everything from the region is also available in our regular Holzkirchen newsletter.