Easily Conduct your Lab Test At Home
‘’You know when we were your age…’’.
A common speech we get to hear everywhere from our elders. Back in our days, we’ve got ourselves in for a lecture session from our parents/guardians about how careless we were with our health.
Let’s be honest that they were not wrong.
Thanks to that pretty tight schedule and tedious process for minor health check-ups and lab tests, you can’t help but get annoyed.
Why worry?
Labs are just a call away. Modern-day technology has managed to impact positive changes in Pathology and diagnostics services as well. You can now perform lab tests at home easily and at your convenience. Here are a few lists of lab tests that you can easily perform on your own home and save your time.
1.Perform Blood Test at home
OK! Let’s be real. We all secretly hate blood tests as it only heightens the fear of our inner child. The anticipation that builds when we wait for our turn and the anxiety that creeps in our minds is horrifying.
When you finally get your blood samples tested. YIKES!!!
This is why performing a blood test at home can be your last resort. Keep in mind that you would still need a professional medical expert and doctors to assess your results but performing them is really not that hard.
Most of the time the Lab center will provide you with blood testing kits with instructions on it. Before conducting a test make sure that you are well hydrated. Read the instructions carefully so that you are well aware of the procedure.
Prior to performing the test, dive your non-dominant hand under warm water for around two minutestwo2 minutes. Then choose your ring or pinkie finger and wipe it using alcohol-based cloth available in the toolkit and aim for the center of the finger with a lancet.
Squeeze your finger slowly to fill the blood in the container and apply a band-aid on the finger and send it to the lab center. In certain cases, the lab will send the medical professionals to conduct the tests for you. So you don’t worry about the process to perform the test.
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2.Perform Urine Lab tests at home
Urine tests are one of the widely performed tests to diagnose other health issues. Luckily, it also happens to be one of the easiest tests to perform at home as it only requires collecting urine samples as per the instructions from your side.
Urine tests are done to track Urinary Tract Infections, Sexually Transmitted Infections such as chlamydia in men, or for performing ACR tests. Urine tests might range from 24-hour urine collection to mid-stream urine and many more.
Done for tracing any kidney problem, 24-hour urine collection requires patients to store urine for full 24-hours on a cool surrounding. In an attempt to minimize the risk of a sample being contaminated from bacteria, a mid-stream urine sample involves collecting not first or last but the middle part of urine that comes out.
Urine collection basically requires you to collect urine samples in provided container keeping in mind all hygiene and sanitation aspects. And finally sending them to the lab center for diagnosis.
3. Nasal swab collection for Covid-19 Lab test at home
Well, Well
This list wouldn’t be complete without a home swab collection procedure for Covid-19 testing. With the chaos that it has caused over the period of time, it is definitely a good idea to conduct a swab collection at your home.
Conducting swab collection at home might actually be a good option as you would minimize the possibility of infecting others in case you happen to be positive for Covid-19.
Start off by applying a 60% alcohol-based sanitizer all over your hand. Take off the swab from the package while being extremely cautious of the absorbent tips. Slide the absorbent tip of the swab into your nostrils in a slow circular motion and repeat the process on the other nostrils. Put the swab in the sterile tube and carefully seal it in the bag and hand it over to the medical personnel.
Sounds terrifying?
There’s no need to be worried. Our professional swab collectors will operate the procedure as swiftly as possible, without even letting you know what actually happened.
4. Perform Vitamin D Lab Test at home.
Not so surprisingly, many people across the world are getting Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is vital for your immune system. The group vulnerable to Vitamin D deficiency includes senior class citizens, pregnant women, people with autoimmune conditions, and people with gastrointestinal disorders.
Vitamin D levels are measured through blood work. Vitamin D tests work similarly to a blood test. The toolkit consists of gauze, alcohol pad, lancet, and a bag to tuck the sample in.
As that with a blood test, you take the blood sample with help of a finger prick and store it in the container. Then send the specimen to the lab for getting results.
Remember even if you do these tests at home, you would still need help from medical professionals and doctors to draw conclusions from your results. After all, they are credible people in their field and you wouldn’t want to commit the risk of hampering your health by not listening to them. Would you?
Wrapping Up:
These lab tests at home are super easy to conduct these days. Visiting the Diagnostics Center in Nepal is not safe either. Conditions are getting worse every day as social distancing is quite necessary. Every field is adopting remote working mechanisms.
Crystal Diagnostics is no exception.
Lab tests at home would save you time and provide you with convenience. Our fully sanitized health professionals are taking every measure of safety ensuring you and your family are protected.
Crystal Diagnostics is a world-class pathology ‘A’ grade lab approved by the government of Nepal which provides lab test services at your home. So, give these tests a try and make the most out of your valuable time.
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