Biochemical blood test - Causes, symptoms and treatment. MF.

If you have to donate blood "to biochemistry," the main thing is to give up food on the day of the test. Even dinner, eaten the previous evening, should be easy.

You are opposed to intensive physical work. Stressful situations can also not have the best effect on the results of the study. So try not to be nervous.

From alcohol will have to be abandoned a few days before the study.

The biochemical indicators of the state of the body are strongly influenced by drugs. Therefore, before going to the polyclinic, stop taking any medications.

If you can not cancel the medicine, you should inform the doctor about it. This will allow us to introduce a conditional correction to the results of a laboratory study.

In , biochemical blood test for the determination of urea, creatinine, uric acid, etc.

For analysis, 5-10 ml of blood is sent from the vein to the muscle.

Decoding of the analysis results:

Urea

Norm : up to 8.7 mmol / l.

Increased urea levels in the blood indicate a decrease in kidney function, is one of the signs of kidney failure.

Creatinine

Norm: up to 115 μmol / l, some laboratories give a norm of up to 120 μmol / l or up to 130 μmol / l.

Increased creatinine is a sign of decreased kidney function, it is also one of the symptoms of kidney failure. The level of creatinine in the blood is a more sensitive indicator than the level of urea.

Norm : males 214-458 μmol / l, women 149-404 μmol / l.

An increase in uric acid levels may also be a sign of a decrease in kidney function, or may indicate increased uric acid formation in the body, that is, urate nephrolithiasis. It occurs when gout and with urolithiasis with the formation of urates.

An important point is to take a blood test on an empty stomach( you can not even drink it).Blood is taken from the vein.

Skin and allergic diseases are often associated with liver, pancreas, protein, carbohydrate, fat metabolism, and a biochemical blood test is needed for this.

The analysis itself includes the determination of both organic substances of blood( protein, residual nitrogen, urea, creatine and creatinine, amino acids, ammonia, bilirubin, glucose, lipids, uric acid) and inorganic substances( potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium,chlorides, iron, copper), as well as blood enzymes( this is Alt, Ast, SHF, LDH, CK, amylase, lipase).