Lab Testing

Product Description

**Note: All laboratory testing requires an authorizing physician. DHA Laboratory offers a patient direct program that partners you with an authorizing physician. If you have any additional questions regarding the availability of testing, please contact our laboratory by telephone or email.**

Detect B₁₂ deficiency as in pernicious anemia; diagnose folic acid deficiency; evaluate hyper-segmentation of granulocyte nuclei; follow up MCV >100; diagnose macrocytic anemia; diagnose megaloblastic anemia; evaluate alcoholism, prenatal care; evaluate malabsorption, neurological disorders, or the elevation of B₁₂ as seen in liver cell damage or myeloid leukemia.

Folate is a vitamin that unfortunately cannot be produced by the body. The only way to gain this vitamin is through food. Folate is essential for RBC formation and also for the repair of tissues and cells.

Folate (Folic Acid) test use:

• Detect folate deficiency
• Monitor therapy with folate
• Evaluate megaloblastic and macrocytic anemia
• Evaluate alcoholic patients

Testing the folic acid level is primarily used in the diagnosis of megaloblastic anemia.

Patient Preparation: Discontinue any supplements containing Biotin for 72 hours prior to specimen collection.