Donor Qualification
Medication
Medications taken on a regular basis that exclude you from donating blood
Click on the corresponding letter.
COMMERCIAL/GENERIC NAMES
If you are taking any of the following medications on a regular basis, you cannot give blood.
Peginterferon Alfa-2a
Peginterferon Beta-1a
Pembrolizumab
Pemetrexed
Penicillamine
Penicillin G
Penicillin V
Pen-G
Pen-V
Pen-VK
Pivampicillin
Pivmecillinam
Plegridy
Pomalidomide
Pomalyst
Ponatinib
Pradaxa
Procarbazine
Procytox
Propecia
Propylthiouracil
Proscar
Purinethol
Quinidine
Quinidine Sulfate
Raloxifene
Rapamune
Ravulizumab
Regorafenib
Replagal
Revlimid
Riabni
Ridaura
Rilutek
Riluzole
Riociguat
Rituxan
Rituximab
Rivaroxaban
Riximyo
Romidepsin
Ruxience
Ruxolitinib
If you have specific questions for Héma-Québec's before you go to a blood drive, please call the donor information line at
- Child birth/Breast-feeding/Pregnancy
- Acupuncture/Electrolysis
- Age
- Allergies
- Cancer
- Cholesterol
- Dentist
- Diabetes
- Drugs
- Iron
- Hemoglobin
- Sore throat
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Body piercing/Tattoos
- Tick bite
- Weight
- Medication
- Sexual relations
- Cold
- Trali (Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury)
- Vaccinations
- Travel
- For more information, please contact our Donor Services at: 1 800 847.2525