Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

occult blood

created by Ammonia Pine 4 Me

(thing) by Ammonia Pine 4 Me (6.1 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Jun 19 2001 at 16:00:23

Small quantities of blood in the feces that are not apparent to the eye and are detectable only by special laboratory tests. If occult blood is detected it suggests that there is bleeding somewhere in the gastrointestinal tract, and further tests will be necessary. Since the bleeding may be intermittent, the laboratory tests have to show no occult blood in the stool on several occasions before the physician can be fairly certain that there is no bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract. Blood from ingested meat (even if cooked) can give a positive result to the test; thus, the patient should go on a meat free diet for about three days before the test.

printable version
chaos

Why are faeces brown? The twist of Kafka's hand false positive Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
occult Coldplay well done Yellow
Raw physician Friday the 13th Medical
blood Ortho- Mattress math
decimal
Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
After stirring Everything, these nodes rose to the top:
Diaspora
Salvation for modern Dads
cavitation torpedo
It's a jailbreak; we're free.
The Robot
A Table Alphabeticall
nód as gaeilge
American Beauty
How Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man have sex
How to carve a dodecahedron out of a cube
December 6, 2006
Garrison Keillor
Getting an STI test
New Writeups
Cuckowski
Slavonic Princess(poetry)
Heitah
Posthumous Oscar(thing)
ignis_glaciesque
University of South Florida(place)
ignis_glaciesque
Flogstaskriket(idea)
liveforever
Caesar's last breath(idea)
dagnyswaggart
she wants to believe(personal)
antigravpussy
he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far(thing)
dagnyswaggart
Wild tides guard her secrets(poetry)
Lord Brawl
Caesar's last breath(poetry)
locke baron
Forgotten things in space(fiction)
sitaraika
Colours(idea)
etouffee
Wild tides guard her secrets(poetry)
Lord Brawl
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog(review)
a8ksh4
regret(idea)
Heisenberg
Editor Log: July 2008(log)
This affordable entertainment brought to you by The Everything Development Company