Laboratory Testing

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best practice is to not do drugs if you know you are going to be tested.

Yes you can smoke a day before your drug test, but it is not recommended if you want to confidently pass your test.

If you do smoke the day before your test, you need to cleanse the drug out of your system so it will not appear on the test.

For instance, you need to drink tons of water to dilute yourself to get the drug out.

A blood culture is a lab test done to see if there are any bacteria in the blood.

It is a test that measures the concentration of glycosylated hemoglobin in the blood. This is the amount of hemoglobin bound to glucose. The test is used to determine if the blood sugar level has been high for a long time. There would be very little glycosylated hemoglobin if it hasn't.

Yes, an individual with blood type B can produce an offspring with blood type A. The explanation for this is that a mother with the blood type A can have a child with a father who has a blood type of A or AB and produce a child with type A blood.

They are both forms of oxycodone and will both show up as the same thing in a UA.

I belive it stays in the exact same amount of time. But I am a Loratab addict and I'm pregnant. Well actually I got help before getting pregnant. That's why I am answering your question. If you have a problem, may I suggest Subutex. It saved my life.

I recently had a routine blood test. I asked for a copy of the results. I don't understand all the abbreviations listed. Examples:

ALB

ALP

ALT

AST

CO2

TBIL

CA

CHOL

CRE

GLU

HDL-C

LDL-C

TP

TRIG

BUN

BHCY

Na

K

C1

GLOB

A/G RA

Bun/CR

VLDL

CHL/HD

Dr. said everything OK. Fine. But, I would like to know what I am being tested for.

According to the lab sheet print out from my internist's office, normal TSH values run between 0.4 and 5. There does appear to be much controversy over what these "normal" values are as they do vary slightly depending upon where you are researching this info.

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No, it is not normal. As the above poster state every lab determines its own normal range and so there will be some variation in exactly where the cut off will be. However, 9.6 will be listed as abnormally high from any lab. The TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) is the brain's signal to control how much hormone the thyroid puts out so a high level implies low thyroid function (the brain is asking for more).

Interestingly, while every lab would list that as abnormal, and most doctors would give thyroid hormone in response, studies suggest that most people do not feel symptoms or benefit from treatment until it is above 10.

Since O blood is recessive and B is dominant, this scenario would be possible

Over a long period of time, physicians observed that the NORMAL white blood cell count in people ranged somewhere between 5,000 and 11,000 wbc (white blood cells) per cubic millimeter ( a really small area)... There are folks whose wbc range normally will run as low as 3,500 wbc (or lower) and other folks will run as much as 12,000 - 13,000 (and higher). If you are familiar with the "bell curve", that is how these doctors figured out how to report the GENERAL (normal) range... So, it could mean that you are one of those folks whose wbc count is a little above... or below, the generally expected range of wbc's. The wbc's also will vary depending on whether you have a virus or bacterial infection, also. In viral infections, the expected wbc count goes down (it can also go up, too.)... In bacterial infections, the wbc count usually goes up above the expected 11,000. However, there are exceptions to the rule as well... In the geriatric population, the white count can go down because the (older) person's immune system is being overwhelmed by the infection. We also see that in patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer will have their wbc count go down... again, due to the immune system being surppressed by the chemotherapy. Get's complicated, doesn't it...

When you are anemic. When you are anemic.

Not only no, but (insert your favorite obscenity) no.

Sure-Jell is a product called pectin. If you want to make some strawberry jam, you mix strawberries, sugar and pectin, and the pectin makes it thick enough to be jam.

Pectin is a "diuretic"--a chemical that makes you lose water, specifically through the urine. Or to put it another way, it makes you pee. The idea is, if you pee more than you should it will dilute your urine to the point where you can't find enough drugs in it to cross the testing threshold. One of three things will happen then:

The first is that MAYBE you will pass the test, and then you'll go online and brag about how Sure-Jell helps you pass a pee test.

The second is that if you don't do it exactly right, the pectin will cause THC (well, the metabolite THC-COOH which is what gets tested for) to be flushed out of your system with all the excess pee...and it will go right into the collection bottle. People have come in even hotter than they would have otherwise by trying to game the system.

The third is that you WILL do it right and you'll go up against a tester who's programmed his machine to look for creatinine levels. Creatinine is a chemical your body makes by using the amino acid creatine. There is a certain amount that's supposed to be in your urine. If it's too low, the test will assume it's a diluted specimen and fail you for that.

low neutrophils

Drugs tests are not 100% accurate and can give false positives and false negatives for various reasons. To prove that you have not taken diazepam, ask to take an alternative form of test.

There are some medical reports that cancer can be passed through your gene lines. But, the research also suggest that it can miss a generation or be completely random in it's activation along the gene line.

Yes, absolutely! Even when using the older measurements TSH 0.3 - 5.0, that is exceptionally high

In a CBC (complete blood count), gran stands for granulocytes, which are a type of white blood cell.

The reason for semen in urine is due to either a previous ejaculation and the remainder of semen leftover in the urethral duct is released along with the urine. However this is not the only reason for semen in urine, it could also be due to the natural release of semen by the prostate gland or the lee ejaculatory fluid from the Cowper's gland (located directly under the prostate). I would really recommend looking at a diagram of the male reproductory system in order to make sense of the path of urine and semen.

Type o negative and positive can donate to any blood type because it is the most interchangeable blood type i have people calling me all the time for my o neg blood and i love to donate when i can i love the fact that 1 pint saves 3 lives and you give a pint each visit it hurts the least out of donating plasma and bone marrow though

There are two types of contrast used in CT, oral and IV.

IV contrast is usually a nonionic iodinated liquid injected into your arm. This highlights anatomy with blood flow.

A noncontrast ct scan usually refers to NOT using the IV contrast, oral may still be used.

it depends, if you dont do much physical activity and dont drink enough water it can take up to a month but if you are very active and drink plenty of water it can be out in as quick as two days

Yes, if you traumatize that liver for instance and suffer fat embolism.

Charcoal has uses in regards to drugs, most frequently used in the event of an overdoes of certain specific drugs. There is chatter regarding ingestion of charcoal to fool a drug screen, but there is no evidence that is effective,