Finger prick tests, how much blood?

[Chasing-rainbows]

Hi,

I'm looking at buying the full thyroid screen test through medichecks but was wondering for those of you that have used them, how much blood is needed? And is it straightforward getting enough blood.

I've used the finger lancets through work before for testing blood sugars, so I am familiar with them, but have never ordered private blood tests before.

Thanks in advance.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Chasing-rainbows

The amount of blood required is less than 1ml. The tube is marked up to 600 or 0.6ml and you need to fill the tube to that line. When you consider that 1 teaspoon holds 5ml, you need less than 1/5th of that, probably about 1/8th of a teaspoon.

The lancets for blood sugar are different from the lancets for this type of fingerprick test, they're larger blue and white ones with a retractable blade, the same as in this Blue Horizon fingerprick test kit here (click on right hand picture):

bluehorizonbloodtests.co.uk...

Here is Medichecks video of how to do a fingerprick test, the lancets sent have been upgraded from those in the video:

youtube.com/watch?v=w2JzToZ...(Not working as expected?)

[Chasing-rainbows in reply to SeasideSusie]

Ahh great, and thanks for the video. That doesn't sound too bad then hopefully.