Do not. Only someone carrying the voucher can withdraw the results. Of course, there are exceptional cases that will be analyzed individually.

Regardless of whether the exam is carried out privately or by the health plan, the results can be collected in person, at our service units or here on our website. However, for ethical and safety reasons, in authorized cases only your doctor can contact and talk to our technical advisor to obtain your results.

Not all. The blood count, for example, fasting is not mandatory. The fasting blood glucose test is mandatory for 8 to 14 hours of fasting or according to medical advice.

Do not. But it is advisable to take it in moderation, excess interferes with urine tests.

Some don't. This is the case of cortisol, iron and ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) measurements. These exams must be carried out in the morning. Reason: it is in this part of the day that such peak substances in the body.

This is called hematoma, it can occur in certain situations, such as: thin, delicate veins, with a lot of pressure; lack of good compression at the puncture site; and patient using any medication that alters blood clotting, including aspirin.

Yes. Some tests, by the way, are requested exactly because the person has a fever. The intention is to check if any infection is responsible. However, in some circumstances, the disease responsible for the fever may interfere with tests designed to assess metabolic and immunological aspects. As a precaution, therefore, consult your physician or laboratory before taking the test.

Yes, but mainly in triglycerides. For example, a person with high triglycerides who follows a strict diet the day before the test will have a falsely low result. On the other hand, someone with normal triglycerides, but who eats a feijoada the day before, will present a falsely high result.

You must maintain your usual food routine in the 5 days before the exams.

It's what you usually eat in your everyday life. Therefore, this instruction only means the following: do not change the power.

Some yes. Antibiotics and anti-inflammatories, for example, interfere with blood clotting tests, usually requested in the preoperative period. Therefore, at the time of consultation when the doctor requests the laboratory tests, talk to your doctor about the possibility of suspending it for a few days. If interruption is not possible, this data will have to be taken into account in the evaluation of the result. Whatever medications you are taking, notify the laboratory attendant before the test.

Yes, especially triglycerides. Therefore, the ideal is, before the exam, to stay three days without drinking any alcoholic beverage.

Some yes. For example, blood glucose and coagulation factor VIII tests, so much so that before doing them, you cannot have any physical effort. Also, remember: laboratory tests are standardized to be performed under ideal, well-defined conditions. It's what doctors call baseline conditions, as a result, tests done after physical exertion will eventually have different values than you have. Therefore, the ideal is not to perform physical activities the day before the collection, depending on the type of physical effort, stay even more than a day without performing activity.

No, as long as the two precautions are taken not to mix these drugs with the urine: asepsis at the time of the exam and use of a vaginal tampon.

You can perform tests during the menstrual period, but menstruation interferes with the results of some tests, such as hormones and some serum proteins vary during the menstrual cycle. Therefore, it is essential that the doctor knows in which period of the cycle his examination was performed, in order to be able to evaluate in the best possible way.

The first stream of urine brings cells and secretion that may be present in the urethra, especially if there is an inflammatory and/or infectious process called urethritis. When you have a possible urinary tract infection, it is important that the material being examined is not "contaminated" with whatever is in the thra. Hence the need to discard the first jet and collect the middle jet, that is, a urine that represents well the material that is in the bladder.

Antibiogram is a test whose purpose is to verify which antibiotics are most suitable for the treatment of infection caused by the bacterium isolated in the clinical material analyzed. Through this test, we know which antibiotics the bacteria are sensitive to and which are resistant.

Do not. It also doesn't have to be the first bowel movement of the day, you can collect any time.