Opinions were divided. People beat themselves in the chest and wave pieces of paper that say different things. Someone says on pieces of paper that you cannot eat before taking blood for a general analysis. Well, someone is not forbidden to eat.
I confirm. Indeed, even in serious medical sources there is disagreement about this. Rather, it is not even a disagreement. Because in case of disagreement, the opposite sides would exchange arguments. And here are just memos for patients from the laboratory.
The laboratory is not your doctor. The laboratory (especially the paid one) is interested not to scare you away with hunger, but on the contrary, to invite you more often for testing. So they call you for tests.
Now I am explaining how things really are. I had no doubts for a single second that after breakfast people have increased leukocytes in their blood. Surprisingly, not everyone knows about this.
I agree that my experience in this matter is based on the results of examining grandparents or students. The former, by definition, love fatty breakfasts and dislike Greek yogurt smoothies. The second get drunk right away for the whole day. There will be a lot of fat there too. Because it is fat that gets fat.
So fat approximately one and a half times increases the level of leukocytes in the blood. This is especially noticeable a couple of hours after eating.
If your test results have a norm of 9 to ten to the ninth degree in a liter of leukocytes, and you were supposed to have 8, then you will be forgiven. But if you had 8, you ate fried potatoes, and it turned out 12 by ten to the ninth power in a liter leukocytes, then with such an analysis they can pick you up under your white hands and start looking for pneumonia or festering gallbladder. Do you catch all the drama of the situation?
In short, if you do not want to be mistakenly found to have elevated leukocytes in your blood, then do not eat fatty foods 8 hours before taking blood for a general analysis.
Hilez
This is a separate story. When they take blood from your vein for analysis, they sometimes talk about chilez and send you home to think about your behavior.
Chiles are tiny droplets of fat that float in the blood serum.
Well, that is, serum is sometimes taken for analysis. Blood is collected in a test tube, allowed to coagulate into a clot, and the transparent serum is allowed to settle over this blood. Such a transparent serum can be used for analysis of something that is dissolved in it. If this serum is not transparent, but white as milk due to drops of fat, then the analysis will be more difficult.
We have already seen a similar illustration. in the story about lymphflowing from the intestines. This lymph carries drops of fat, and therefore also looks like milk.
Cholesterol
When you are undergoing a medical examination or examined for cardiac diseases, then a test for total cholesterol is often prescribed. This is a kind of a rough test that roughly identifies problems with fat in your blood and the risk of all kinds of cardiovascular disease.
So there is a fashion to do such a rough analysis regardless of food intake. Because cholesterol is made in your liver rather than in food. Well, once again, it is not necessary to bother patients with hunger during a physical examination. Otherwise, the people will not go to the medical examination.
So the total blood cholesterol test is the exception where you are reasonably allowed to get drunk before taking blood.
Do you have any questions on this point? If not, let's move on.
Atherosclerosis
Personally, I fully admit that my idea of the increase in leukocytes in the blood after breakfast is slightly distorted. It is believed that leukocytes jump from fatty foods rather in people with pre-existing atherosclerosis and all sorts of cardiovascular problems.
Well, that is, rather not very healthy people come to the hospital for examination and all kinds of tests. They already have something wrong with the arteries, atherosclerosis, everything.
Atherosclerosis itself - it is an inflammatory process in the wall of the arteries. If leukocytes react painfully to an increased level of fat in the blood, then they can theoretically provoke such inflammation somewhere in the arteries. This will lead to heart attacks, strokes, hospitalizations and repeated blood tests. If such victims have to donate blood for analysis after eating, then you can notice they have a large number of leukocytes angry with fat.
Once again. If, after a fatty breakfast, leukocytes jumped in the blood, then it may very well be that in such a person, atherosclerotic plaques have already grown somewhere.
Do you starve before the analysis?
