Or those finger pricks,exactly HOW MUCH can a doctor figure out about you?
For example,whether your pregnant,a virgin,have HIV's,so on & so forth?
2007-04-27 15:39:18 · 10 answers · asked by Top Notch Glamour Chick 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
none of that, they don't test for any of that during the finger prick. it checks to make sure you have enough iron in your blood, and that you don't show signs of diabetes, and not much else. they can;t tell your a virgin unless they check you out down below if your a girl, they can't tell at all if your a guy. they run sperate tests to find if you have diseases.
2007-04-27 15:43:25 · answer #1 · answered by paintballer6575 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, a drop of blood is not enough to do any of those tests. A drop of blood can be used for 1 blood sugar test (the kind a diabetic would do in his or her home) or 1 iron test, or 1 spun hematocrit.
If a doctor wanted to know if you are pregnant or have HIV, they would have had you give a urine sample and have drawn blood.
2007-04-27 15:55:37 · answer #2 · answered by TrueNorth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no way to tell if you're a virgin unless a gynocologist (I don't know if I spelled that right) checks your privates. However, blood tests can tell if you are pregnant, have STDs or HIV, have mono, or any other kind of condition like that. Finger pricks are usually used for testing sugar levels of your blood.
2007-04-27 15:43:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In phlebotomy, blood is usually extracted and preserved or mixed with chemicals. Different tests require different storage of the blood until it is tested.
You may have seen colour coded rubber stoppers on the end of the vacuum tubes. Only certain blood testing and screening is done for each of the colour coded vials.
I've never heard of a blood test for virginity.
A test for pregnancy requires the testing of a woman's blood that measure the hormone levels that her body has produced. It has been determined that women with a certain level of HCG is a pregnancy.
A typical blood test requisition indicates the more common testing that would be done and then any specialized testing is written by hand on the form.
2007-04-27 16:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
having done this in anatomy class last wek i can answer this well:
in a finger prick test the following can be found out:
coagulation time (time for your blood to clot)
blood type
red blood cell levels (if low a sign of anemia)
white blood cell levels (if high a sign of infection/illness)
however it is usually used for sugar levels- to test for diabetes etc.
a larger sample needs to be taken for pregnancy, HIV etc.
and no blood test or even internal exam can tell if your a virgin. sometimes a tampon can break you hymen etc. so no dr can be sure
2007-04-27 16:13:00 · answer #5 · answered by ozgurl6827 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doctors can not find out much through a regular CBC blood test. Blood has to be drawn and analyzed for specific test such a pregnancy hormones, HIV antigens, etc.
So, you will have to ask your doctor or clinc to test for specific things.
2007-04-27 15:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by TantraGoddess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually, finger pricks on adults are used to test for blood sugar or hematocrit [blood count for anemia] only. There isn't enough of the specimen to do other tests.
There is no blood test for virginity!
2007-04-27 15:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by Nurse Susan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Provided that it was once a used needle, and it used to be used on anybody who had HIV or AIDs. Definitely, you mostly saw her open a package to get the needle to do the blood test, so that you understand it used to be sterile. No concerns.
2016-08-11 05:36:15 · answer #8 · answered by bungay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He'd probably need more than a finger prick to find out all those things.
2007-04-27 15:41:49 · answer #9 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure they can find out whatever they want to look for through your blood.
2007-04-27 15:41:42 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋