Blood collection device

[Yppah]

Hi, I recently did a home blood test with Zoe. I was really dreading it as I thought it was a finger prick test, and I really don’t like that, fainted getting tested for gestational diabetes. However, it wasn’t a finger prick test. It was a thing you stick on your upper arm with a collection tube at the bottom, press in the red button for 4 seconds and wait 5minutes for the tube to fill. No pain, easy peasy. Does anyone know if any of the private thyroid testing companies use these, or even what this is called so I can Google? I attach a pic.

[PurpleNails Administrator]

No pain & easy peasy sounds very promising.

It’s called Tasso blood draw.

Randox have it option

healthchecks.randoxhealth.c...

This has been mentioned on forum & device discussed briefly in this post (code wouldn’t be valid now)

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[Yppah in reply to PurpleNails]

Thank you! Wondering if I can buy from a chemist. Better than venous draw. Game changer!

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Yppah]

It's very new to the market, so unlikely to be available from chemists for a very long time I suspect.

[Yppah in reply to RedApple]

😭

[tattybogle]

eg :

'Capillary Blood Collection' .... i think

dvidshub.net/news/380359/dr...

medicaldevice-network.com/n...

researchgate.net/figure/Col...

medicalexpo.com/prod/yourbi...

[Yppah in reply to tattybogle]

That’s the one. It’s amazing!

[Sparklingsunshine]

Finger prick tests for me are awful, despite following all the tips on the forum I never manage to get more than a suggestion of blood, certainly not enough to fill the tube. I've now resorted to DIY phlebotomy.

Using either my wrist or inner elbow to get enough blood out. Now I have the opposite problem and end up in a mess lol. I can fill 20 tubes this way 😆. Its messy but effective and far less painful than a fingerprick.

I tried all 4 fingers once, I resembled a pin cushion, and just ended up with very sore fingers and still not enough blood.

[Yppah in reply to Sparklingsunshine]

I am imagining a scene from Dexter here 😬

[Sparklingsunshine in reply to Yppah]

Yes looked a bit like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it worked! Nothing more annoying than coughing up for a test and then your body not playing ball and producing the requisite amount of the red stuff.

I've never had issues when having NHS blood tests or when I used to donate blood. I'm actually impressed that other members can fill the vials from a fingerprick 😆