Express a blood test to quickly identify a group of human blood, as well as to identify or exclude a variety of diseases. For example, rapid blood test, which allows less than two hours to distinguish bacterial from viral infection, may be useful not only directly for the treatment, but also to combat antibiotic resistance.

Usually it required to confirm the diagnosis of 24 to 48 hours. Express analysis is based on a process known as chemiluminescence. It was found that the white blood cells that fight bacteria and viruses, a variety of chemiluminescent indicators. This can be readily determined in blood samples of only a few hours. The symptoms of bacterial and viral infections are very similar and often doctors prescribe antibiotics to patients who are actually a viral infection. This leads to an increase in problems such as resistance to antibiotics - the appearance of an increasing number of bacteria that do not respond to antibiotic treatment.

Already, according to scientists, there are microorganisms that show no reactions to any drugs that are applied to them in the laboratory. Although this rapid analysis is still undergoing clinical trials may soon become doctors commonly use it for diagnosis.

Express HIV test

With the rapid HIV test can detect the infection in about 20 minutes. Although the results of these tests are accurate enough if results are positive, additional tests are always made. Express HIV tests often suggest to do in the various companies to combat HIV / AIDS.

Express analysis of other infections

There is also a rapid tests that can detect the disease caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pilory, tsitomegalvirusom, as well as hepatitis A Hepatitis A - do not forget to wash your hands! , B and C and chlamydia. Positive results of a rapid analysis always have to be confirmed by other tests.

Express a blood test to rule out appendicitis

Designed relatively recent rapid analysis allows you to quickly exclude appendicitis and thus save the patient from having to be exposed to radiation during computed tomography (CT). Furthermore, this analysis saves time and medical costs significantly less than CT. People often come to the hospital with complaints of abdominal pain is not Abdominal pain: Types and Symptoms   and doctors are required to check for the presence of appendicitis. Due to rapid blood test it can be done quickly and without harm to the patient.

Rapid tests using special devices

Nowadays we produced a variety of portable devices for rapid determination of various substances in the blood. Thus, one of the oldest and most experienced rapid devices is meter The unit of measurement of sugar in the blood - blood glucose meter Designed for fast determination of the amount of glucose in the blood, including the home, which is an indispensable tool for patients with diabetes.

Produced and portable (they can fit in a bag doctor) biochemical analyzers that allow you to determine the content in the blood is not only glucose, but total cholesterol, triglycerides, "bad" and "useful" lipoprotein (a source of atherosclerosis and, on the other hand, improves metabolic processes) creatinine (the amount increases when kidney function). These analyzers are useful as a district physician during the examination of the patient at home and in the hospital, if necessary, setting an urgent diagnosis.

There are also devices for express-diagnostics of diseases that conduct blood sampling without disturbing the skin, which is particularly important when examining children. The sensors produced today noninvasive diagnosis device hemogram and biochemical regulatory parameters of metabolism and blood circulation are superimposed on the projection of the major blood vessels, there are fixed and counted the blood inside the blood vessel based on the difference in the frequency of oscillations of the wall of blood cells.

At the same time the patient receives the results of studies on hand no later than half an hour after the study. Conduct a full clinical and biochemical analysis of blood. Of course, as with any rapid method, it has an error, but the main objective of such techniques - a rapid detection of some diseases. More accurate diagnosis has placed using conventional laboratory tests.

Rapid tests using test strips

Rapid blood tests using test strips - it's also very common to date technique, allowing to define many biochemical indicators of blood, that is the chemical composition of the blood plasma.

Use the test strips can determine the amount of glucose in the blood Glucose: The energy source   (detection of diabetes and control of), cholesterol, and lipoprotein (detection of atherosclerosis and related diseases, such as coronary heart disease), residual nitrogen and creatinine (the study of kidney function), bile pigments, including bilirubin (liver function tests ).

Thus, the use of home diagnostic test strips "Lipid" reveals lipid metabolism and the formation of the blood vessels of atherosclerotic plaques, which is fraught with coronary heart disease and angina and the possibility of myocardial infarction. The test allows the patient to see a doctor in a timely manner, make more accurate analyzes and to receive advice on the prevention of complications of atherosclerosis, the development of which depends largely on lifestyle and diet.

Diagnostic test strips "Glucose" and "Ketone bodies" will allow the patient to know the status of their carbohydrate metabolism, in time to see the complications of diabetes and promptly see a doctor prescribed treatment for the correction.

The test strip "Metabolic Syndrome" will reveal metabolic disorders such as high blood levels of glucose (sugar threat of diabetes and its complications), "bad" lipoprotein and triglycerides (the threat of formation in the blood vessels of atherosclerotic plaques).

As portable devices and test strips for express-analysis of blood are indispensable assistants physician for diagnosis.

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Gilbert's syndrome, a disease or Gilbert, may occasionally cause mild jaundice. Usually it is harmless and does not require medication. Jaundice occurs due to the reduced amount of liver enzyme that produces bilirubin, a product of the splitting of the red blood cells.

Gilbert's syndrome is named after the doctor who first described it in 1901.

What happens when Gilbert's syndrome?

Bilirubin is produced by the human body constantly. It is the cleavage product of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is known to be a substance responsible for the supply of oxygen to body cells. He also split daily. Bilirubin enters the liver with the blood, where it is processed liver cells, then it enters the intestines and excreted.

Liver enzyme uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) is involved in the processing of bilirubin. People with Gilbert's syndrome, this enzyme is not produced in sufficient quantities in the blood is therefore an excessive amount of bilirubin, from what and jaundice. Gilbert's syndrome When the bilirubin level can rise and fall, often reaching rules.

Gilbert's syndrome is inherited. It occurs on average about 1 person in 20; 1 of 3 people with the syndrome would never know that he has the disease. It is more common in men than in women.

Symptoms Gilbert

Despite the periodic changes in the level of bilirubin Bilirubin - a great tool for the diagnosis   blood, usually have no symptoms of Gilbert's syndrome.

Sometimes, especially when a strong increase in bilirubin in the blood, may appear jaundice (skin and whites of the eyes become yellowish tint). This is due to the fact that bilirubin is an orange-yellow color. When Gilbert's syndrome jaundice may occur on a regular basis; it may disturb the patients, but in fact there is nothing dangerous. Normally manifestations of the symptoms associated with the presence of the patient's other diseases, infections, as well as exhaustion, fatigue, stress How to beat stress? Create an oasis   or recovery period after undergoing surgery.

There are some medicines that should be avoided by people with Gilbert's syndrome - of course, only if there is an alternative.

• Atazanavir and indinavir (used in the treatment of HIV-infected)
• Gemfibrozil (means for lowering cholesterol)
• Statins (group of substances lowering cholesterol) in combination with gemfibrozil
• Irinotecan (used in therapy for the vast bowel cancer)

Sometimes people with Gilbert's syndrome also experience fatigue, weakness, light abdominal pain Abdominal pain: Types and Symptoms   and nausea, but there is no certainty that it is directly related to the syndrome.

Assays

Jaundice may occur due to various diseases of the liver and blood. Therefore, especially when it appears the first time you need to undergo a medical examination. Usually, to confirm the diagnosis, "Gilbert's syndrome", is enough of a blood test Blood tests: a mirror of health Because it shows an elevated level of bilirubin. In rare cases when the doctor has doubts about the diagnosis, you may need a liver biopsy to rule out a more serious disease than Gilbert's syndrome. Sometimes also conducted genetic testing.

Treatment of Gilbert's syndrome is not required, as the majority of people with this disorder are completely normal life, but many people do not realize that with them that something is wrong.