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ESR Blood Test at Home
Are you feeling unwell of late? Suspecting some inflammation or infection in your body? ESR test can help you assess it today. Book an ESR test online with Medintu to determine the condition of your body with the help of an ESR or erythrocyte sedimentation rate test. Check the level of inflammation in your body.
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What is ESR Test?
ESR is the sedimentation rate of red blood cells in a sample of blood placed in the tube over time. The stickiness of the red blood cells to each other increases in a milieu of inflammation experienced in the body during an infection or any other disease. The stickiness is due to proteins that are less in a healthy or noninflamed state and elevated in an environment of infection. Doctors can use ESR to assess the severity of the inflammation and disease process in the body to evaluate the treatment further and administer medical support accordingly. It is also used to check the flaring up of chronic diseases.ESR is a part of the routine screening panel used to evaluate other diseases.
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Why choose Medintu for a ESR Test at Home?
Medintu Health Solutions is a fast-growing medical services portal providing affordable home healthcare services. We have experienced technicians and healthcare professionals who help provide home blood collection, nursing care, home doctor visits, and online consultations. Medintu is partnered with leading laboratories that are highly equipped, state-of-the-art, and have the latest technologies for fast processing, accuracy, and the best quality of tests.There are regular quality checks, constant laboratory updates, and procedures review.
Medintu team coordinates with the laboratory and helps manage the process, from sample collection to updates of reports to ensure smooth operation.
We aim to provide healthcare that is easily accessible and affordableOnce you have made an online appointment with the Medintu website, our team of phlebotomists and qualified technicians will take the sample from the safety of your Home straight away. After the sample is processed at the laboratory, the results are updated immediately on your Medintu account, and a copy of the reports is mailed.
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What are the symptoms where you can find elevated levels of ESR?
Following are some of the commonly observed symptoms in ESR :
- Headache
- Joint pains or stiffness
- Fever
- Malaise
- Rash
- Loss of appetite/ weight loss
These are generalized symptoms experienced when there is inflammation in the body. In such conditions, the body also usually has an elevated ESR level.
In what conditions is ESR elevated?
ESR is elevated in many conditions, such as acute and chronic conditions, due to inflammatory markers circulating in the blood. Some examples of such conditions are;
- Psoriasis
- Sepsis
- Arthritis
- Kidney conditions
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rheumatic fever
- Lupus
- Obesity
- High blood pressure
- Accidents or surgeries
- Diabetes
- Blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma.
ESR is not diagnostic for a particular disease. It is a nonspecific test whose results must be combined with other screenings and clinical findings.
What is the procedure for getting a home-based ESR test?
If your doctor prescribes an ESR test and you wish to do it at Home, you can do it on an online medical service portal. You can do it in the following simple steps:
- Book an appointment with a trusted online medical service portal like Medintu.On successful booking, a phlebotomist will reach your Home at the designated time.
- If there are instructions for fasting by the healthcare practitioner, kindly follow them. It usually does not take any special preparations before the test.
- Once the phlebotomist reaches your place, he will provide instructions for the test, take out all the material he needs to withdraw the blood safely, and then start collecting the blood samples.
- The phlebotomist ties a tourniquet around the arm of the person to see and palpate the best vein on the arm for withdrawing the blood. Usually, a vein at the inner bend of the arm is chosen for drawing blood, like the median cubital vein.
- The site where the picture with a needle will be made is cleaned with alcohol. Then the phlebotomist inserts the needle into the desired vein and slowly pulls back the syringe to fill it with blood withdrawn from the vessel.
- Once blood sufficient for the blood test is withdrawn, the syringe is removed and transferred to tiny plastic containers called vacutainers to store the blood.
- Compression is applied over the puncture site with cotton, and a small sticker is placed at the site of the prick.
- The collected blood is put in different color vacutainers depending on the type of test the blood will be used for.
- Once the blood is collected, it is stored and sent to a lab for processing.
- Once the sample reaches the lab, generating the report may take 24-48 hours.
- Once the test reports are available, they will be updated and emailed to your Medintu account.
FAQs
What is the ESR test Price?
The cost of blood ESR level tests in India ranges from 100-300 rupees depending on the diagnostic center and the city.
Do we need to fast for an ESR test?
Usually, no prior fasting is required before an ESR test. The test can be taken at any time under fasting or nonfasting states; as a result, it depends on factors such as age, gender, presence of anemia, infection, and autoimmune diseases.
What are the average values for ESR?
The average values of ESR as per WHO in 2021’s update:
- For men, the range of normal ESR is 0-15 mm/hr
- For women, the range of normal ESR is 0-20 mm/hr
When does the doctor suggest an ESR level test?
The doctor may suggest an ESR level test when he suspects an infection or inflammation in your body and wants to check the severity of the same. Sometimes elevated ESR is a diagnostic criterion in diseases such as Rheumatic fever.