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If unavoidable, samples can be stored refrigerated overnight.
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Patients with any form of meningococcal disease, particularly if recurrent, should be screened in convalescence with a CH50.
If unavoidable samples can be stored refrigerated overnight. Required information Relevant clinical details including reason for the request.
Sample requirements If gut hormone profile also required then patients must have fasted for 10 hours.
If you have attended REACCT in the past and would like a refresher on the principles of carbohydrate counting, or if you wish to learn about it in your
after children with tummy problems in their general paediatric clinics, but can refer onto the more specialist clinics, or seek advice from Dr Rushforth, if
If required more urgently for clinical reasons, please contact the duty biochemist to discuss.
If possible vitamin supplements should be stopped 2 days prior to sampling as the vitamins can appear in the blood up to 32 hours post ingestion.
Non incidental findings such as red and white blood cells, casts or non-bacterial infections such as candida will be reported if seen but this is not the
For adults, blood taken into a 4mL EDTA tube sent immediately to the laboratory on ice (send 2 tubes on ice if full gut hormone profile required).
example causing cerebral toxoplasmosis in AIDS The laboratory performs a serological Toxoplasma screening test that will be referred to the reference lab if