Needs in blood products are in constant increase while the number of donors stagnates. And every event which prevents the donor from going to the actual generates a risk of shortage. At present, such events accrue: Christmas, big cold, epidemics of gastroenteritis then of influenza. An alert is thrown: give now!

The supply of blood products passed under the threshold of alert. Traditionally, the period which follows holidays year end is difficult for the Establishment Frenchman of the blood (the donors, occupied by the preparations of Christmas and of the New Year are fewer in number), while needs during January are generally more important in the hospital establishments.

And this year, situation is particularly worrying. Indeed, the intense cold which clamped down at the beginning of January limited displacements of the habitual donors and did not encourage the new donors to go to the actual. At the same time, the epidemic of gastroenteritis and now the arrival of influenza are so much events compromising donations of blood …

Who can give? Indications and contraindications in the donation of blood

The site of the French Establishment of the blood (EFS) shows apparently the list of contraindications in the donation of blood. It is necessary to weigh for example the very least 50 kg. After an influenza or a gastroenteritis it is necessary to wait two weeks before being able to give his blood. Of even if you followed a treatment antibiotic. EFS also specifies delays after a visit at the dentist according to the type of intervention (descaling, decay).

11 million accidents, 4,5 million injured men and 19.000 dead: such is the annual balance sheet, in France, of accidents of the common life. To struggle against this blight, authorities put online a site entirely dedicated to the prevention of these accidents.

Prevention of accidents of the common life

Accidents of the common life (AcVC) are well known to hospital emergency services, which receive several hundred every day. One hospitalisation of eight would be so due to this type of accidents, which cause three times more decease than road accidents, however much more mediatized.

Expression ” common life “ recuperates a big number of scenarioes. It can be so about school accidents, about sports, about leisure, about fixing things or linked to the life of the home (kitchen, for example). The most serious accidents touch particularly the young children and the old persons.

An Internet site at disposition of the parents

Called “Stop in daily accidents“, the site put online by authorities and accomplished by the Consumer’s Association (FRENCH NATIONAL CONSUMER COUNCIL) brings a big number of practical information to tell ACVC.

A powerful search engine allows so to find desired information by type of population (child, teenager and grown-up young person, old person), by risk (burn, fall, intoxication, drowning, electrical risk, burns down) or by product and activity (fixing things, gardening, chemicals, toys, sports and leisures, public areas), with possibility to combine three criteria. A research by key words is also offered. The site mutualise so contents accomplished by the FRENCH NATIONAL CONSUMER COUNCIL or by other public or associative actors: ministries, national Institute of prevention and of education for health (Inpes), Committee of security of the consumers, general management of competition, of consumption and of fraud prevention, Health institute…

Another rubric gives access to many teaching tools in unrestricted access or paid - booklets, brochures, guides, exhibitions - as well as in different reference documents. From his part, rubric “prevention in graphics” allows to view videos of information and reports on different risks and means to tell them, having notably drawn of the magazine “Conso Mag” accomplished by the FRENCH NATIONAL CONSUMER COUNCIL. Thanks to an online form, it is also possible to signal oneself a problem to the Committee of security of the consumers.

The home introduces big danger, particularly for the young children. According to the inquiry 2007 led by INPES, the parents have some more lacunas in realisation of danger and therefore in prevention of risks.

Accidents in the home: parental lacunas…

According to the inquiry 2007 led by the national Institute of prevention and of education for health (Inpes):

- 66 % parents only fear that their children make a fall. However, it is about the most frequent accident (inquiry 2007 of the Health institute);

- for only 6 % parents, suffocation is a real threat at home, while they represent the first reason of accidental decease at the children of less than a year;

- finally, 15 % name spontaneously drownings and 53 % burns as being of danger at home. And drownings and burns are part of main reasons of decease at the children from 1 to 4 years old.

They note here that knowledge of the parents is deficient. It is probably why they are vague in preventive behaviours (gestures and equipment of the home):

- 15 % questioned parents name no precautinary measure of accidents;

- 12 % recall only the constant surveillance of the children by way of prevention of accidents;

- the only 9 % name gestures allowing to tell suffocation;

- 24 % those who tell falls;

- 23 % the preventive gestures of drownings.

To be more definite, 56 % parents 17 % know mask-catch, 47 % guardrails for staircases, 21 % block them doors, block them cupboards and 14 % the corners of protection for tables.

How to avoid accidents in the home?

Paradoxically, they are 97 % to think that a big number of accidents in the domicile could be avoided. Parents, you must therefore enquire more!

To help you to identify domestic risks and to adopt good preventive gestures, the Ministry of Health and Inpes combined in a national campaign. Further to, an Internet site is offered to you: www.stopauxaccidentsquotidiens.fr. Graphics, videos, teaching tools and practical questions, this portal also invites you to achieve information with the aid of a search engine including multicriteria: key words, populations (children, teenagers, old persons), risks (burn, cut, intoxication, bite, electrocution, etc.) and products / activities (furniture, heating, gardening, beauty products, sports, transport, produced by protection, etc.).