How to properly prepare for research - tips
For most tests, the patient does not need to be fasting.
Tests marked in blue on the referral indicate that the patient should report for a blood draw while fasting.
- 🚫 To be fasting means at least 12 hours after eating a meal, unless your doctor has recommended a post-meal test.
- 💧 Only unsweetened water or bitter (unsweetened) tea can be drunk before the test.
What not to eat:
- 🚫 Meals, snacks, fruits, vegetables, breath freshening candies, chew gum, smoke cigarettes.
What not to drink:
- 🚫 Flavored water, coffee, cola light/ cola "zero" drinks, energy drinks, juices.
Tests to be attended absolutely fasting:
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- ✔️ Glucose, Glucose load test
- ✔️ Iron, ALT, AST, Proteinogram, Albumin, Amylase
- ✔️ Panel ,,glucose +WR"
- ✔️ Panel , "Liver tests" (total protein, bilirubin, AST, ALT)
- ✔️ Panel , "comprehensive" (morphology, glucose, cholesterol, an.urine)
- ✔️ Panel , "diabetic" (glucose, an.urine)
- ✔️ Panel ,,transaminases" (ALT, AST)
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Tests for which you must report to the Intake Point at specific times:
Monday-Saturday 7:30-9:00 a.m.
- ✔️ Aldosterone
- ✔️ Glucose load tests (sugar curves 2pts,3pts, 5pts).
- ✔️ Prolactin test 3pts
Monday-Saturday 7:30-10:00 am
- ✔️ Prolactin test 2pts
- ✔️ ACTH
- ✔️ Calcitonin
- Monday-Saturday 7:30-10:30 a.m.
- ✔️ ACP ( acid phosphatase)
- ✔️ Growth hormone
- ✔️ C-peptide
- ✔️ Homocysteine
- ✔️ Osteocalcin