Blood Spot Testing
Dried blood spot is a type of collection where drops of blood are put on a filter card after pricking the finger with a lancet. Once they get dried up, blood spot cards can be easily carried as well as stored for future use. Dried blood spots offer excellent correlation with serum tests.
Why go in for blood spot testing?
Blood spot is the perfect choice for the purpose of hormone measurement as well as other analytes like insulin, Vitamin D, thyroid hormones and elements like magnesium. It is advantageous over serum which demands a blood draw. Thus it saves both time as well as funds of patients.
Radrix pioneered the idea for measuring hormones in an accurate manner by using dried blood spots and happens to be the only lab offering this technology or methodology on a commercial basis in the present time.
Convenience at its best
The method of collection used by Radrix removes the need for blood draw needles, blood draw fees and the need to visit a phlebotomist. Patients are free to collect the sample as per their convenience at home. The accuracy level associated with blood spot is higher when compared with that of serum when it comes to measuring the blood hormone levels in patients.
Unlike most other labs, Radrix test does not require patients to stop hormone supplementation as Radrix has arrangements that adjust age, menstrual status and supplementation types. It is considered to be the perfect way for measuring the level of effectiveness associated with hormone treatments.
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