Drug Test: Result Matters

Any form of investment is a baby; the investee as its parents has the obligations to safeguard his or her venture, check whether it is growing and if it’s handled by the right group or individual. This must be the reason why more and more companies are very deliberate when it comes to appointing new employees. They want to make sure that they are on the right track and that they are working with the right person. Before someone takes his or her seat in the company he or she must undergo the rigid and stiff requirements of your future employer.

Drug testing is one of the prerequisites of some companies, to be hired; one must pass the said test, passing in the form of being negative, negative from any form and substance of the illegal drugs such as cannabinoids ( marijuana, hashish), Cocaine ( cocaine, benzolylecognine), Amphetamines ( amphetamine, methamphetamine) Opiates ( heroin, opium, codeine, morphine), Phencyclidine, Methadone, Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, and others.

Drug test occurs in different forms or the so called drug testing method. The most common method is the Urine drug testing and is used by the federally mandated drug testing program, yet it is also considered as the least effective for the reason that it can be cheated via simple adulteration or substitution, unless specimen collection is directly observed, it also posses the inability to detect current drug abuse. Saliva Drug Testing is the next, a non-invasive method which allows easy collection of specimen. This form will not require bathroom to administer the tests. It has the ability to detect very recent drug use. Spray (sweat) drug testing is the third, considered as a non-invasive method, like saliva drug testing, this method does not require bathroom to take the specimen. This drug test is relatively tamper proof since they are hard to manipulate. Hair drug test or testing is the last method which provides a much longer window of detection, useful for highly safety-critical positions.

Your job or should we say your career will still rely on you and you alone. No matter how you hide and cheat the result of your drug test you yourself know that you are guilty. The importance of being drug-free is not a benefit that you can give the company that you are planning to be involved with, but it is beneficial for you.

ELISA: The Things That You Need to Know

Many are still confused of what really the medical terminology ELISA means and how it is being used in disease detection such as HIV or West Nile Virus. ELISA or Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is a biochemical technique; its main purpose is to detect the presence of any kind of antigen in a given sample. Its contribution as a diagnostic tool in medicine and plant pathology as well as a medium of quality control checker in various industries shows the importance that it has brought in the past and it can bring in the future.

In the process, an unknown amount of antigen is attached in a surface, and then a specific antibody is washed over the surface so that it can bind to the antigen. This antibody is linked to a specific enzyme till the enzyme can convert to detectable signal in the final step.

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is a useful tool for determining serum antibody concentrations aside from it; it can also be applied in the food industry to detect potential food allergens. It has evolved as a widely-used method for measuring a molecule concentration in fluids such as serum and even urine.

In conducting the ELISA test, you will be needing antibodies fixed to a solid surface, such as the inner surface of a test tube, a preparation of the same antibodies coupled to an enzyme (something that produces a colored product form a colorless substance).

In testing possible exposure to virus and other infectious substances, blood collection is typical. The blood collected is stored into a small glass tube called pipette, or onto a slide or test strip. The sample is being linked to an enzyme. Normal values depend on the type of substance being identified. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories.

Fertility Education and Mediums

China will not be China if it were not for its more than 1 billion people. The Philippine government will not have the billion dollars remittances if it were not for their biggest export product which is manpower. Population is the biggest factor for the above mentioned countries to attain economic heights and further developments.

This is not to speak about how to make every country’s population big rather this will discuss the most important element affecting the rapid increase of population. Fertility the subject being referred to.

As what the term is being denoted, fertility is the natural capability of giving life, it is affected by several factors such as nutrition, sexual behavior, culture, instinct, endocrinology, timing, economics, way of life, and emotions. Fertility is being considered as gift for those who value life; this will determine how fruitful a person will be (referring to reproduction).

Both women and men have hormonal cycles which determine both when a woman can achieve pregnancy and when a man is most virile. How would you be able to able to know when the time that you are under the state of fertility?

In the case of females, fertility kits and other monitoring kits are widely available in the market. These instrument measures and test the fertility level of a particular person with a conduct of simple and easy methods, they are useful in determining the your fertile and infertile days of your cycle. Whether the person wants to know her possibility o being pregnant and oppositely avoid getting pregnant, fertility kits are very useful.

Fertility Kits belongs to the hormone monitoring devices which measures hormone levels in the urine to predict ovulation and determine which days you are likely to be fertile. The kit stores this information and builds up a record, or a profile, of your personal cycles. The data is then used to help predict fertility. Who is not recommended to use the kits? Hormone monitoring devices such as fertility kits are not recommended to be used by women who have short cycles, long cycles, are breastfeeding or have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS).

Right education about fertility and usage of alternative devices to determine it is such a good thing to know for it will provide you with the information that you will need in the near future.

HCG: Figures of Pregnancy

Pregnancy is very a sensitive process; there are occurrences wherein we are not familiar with, sometimes this resort to overreaction and panic. For first timers, there are a lot of things that they should know. There are unfamiliar terminologies that a pregnant woman should know, of which the HCG or the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin is. Ordinary people who have not heard the word will ask, what is HCG, and how does it affect your pregnancy.

HCG is a glycoprotein hormone produced in a pregnancy that is made by the developing embryo soon after conception. Its role is to prevent the disintegration of the corpus luteum of the ovary and thereby maintain progesterone production that is for pregnancy in humans. It is made by cells that form the placenta.

There are important figures that you need to take into consideration during your pregnancy.

You need to know that about 85 percentages of normal pregnancies, the level of HCG doubles every 48-72 hours, and as your pregnancy progresses the level of this hormone increases, it gets higher and higher. You must also be guided that a low level can mean any number of things and should be rechecked within 48-72 hours to see how the level is changing. Generally, low level HCG level could indicate, miscalculation of pregnancy dating, possible miscarriage or blighted ovum, and ectopic pregnancy. A high HCG level also means a number of things and should be rechecked within 48-72 hours to evaluate changes in the level. Generally it would mean miscalculation of pregnancy dating, molar pregnancy, and multiple pregnancies.

One of the most frequently asked question is “should my HCG level be checked routinely? We may think that too much money will be spent if you would avail of the routinely check up, medical practitioners and health care providers require regular check up for those who are showing signs of possible problem such as bleeding, experiencing severe cramping, or have the history of miscarriage.

It is important for us to be acquainted with the things which plays vital role in the progress of any natural process occurring in our body.

Instant Results at One Step Test

Major innovations and breakthroughs have been brought by technology. Bottlenecks in different procedures have been minified. Today, the requirement goes a little bit shorter, compacted to make everything simple and fast. Medical Test is the most common procedures wherein, notable improvements are evident.

The medical industry is now on the generation of onestep test where instant results are obtainable in a short span of time in a very easy step.

Detecting ovulation is a fine example of classic one step test. The past decades has its own quirky history of this test but today it is not a tough process to undergo through and that is because of different aids being used such as one step ovulation predictor. The particular test detects ovulation approximately 20 to 44 hours prior to the event using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technology to detect LH in the urine. To show how one step test works, the process of ovulation detection using one step ovulation detector will be discussed in the following paragraph.

The patient is requested to provide a urine sample. The sample specimen should be collected between 10 in the morning and 8 in the afternoon, and never the first urine. The patient needs to draw a small amount of urine into the dropper. The patient waits 3 to 5 minutes until she can read result in the one step ovulation detector cassette’s result window. She should not move the test cassette until the test is complete and ready for interpretation. Results must be read before 5 minutes pass. Interpreting the results is very simple, as what the word onestep test denotes. Compare the color of the test line with the color of the reference line. In the one step ovulation detector, if the pink-to-purple test line is darker than the reference line, the result is positive. If the pink-to-purple test line is lighter than the reference line or the same color as the reference line, the result is negative. There are cases wherein the patient does not see a reference line after the urine is added. This occurrence is considered invalid and a technical assistance should be called for assistance. Although one step tests are proven, there are considerations that the patient should count. For instance, in detecting ovulation, the patient should reduce her liquid intake for about 2 hours before collecting urine to prevent sample dilution. There is one thing sure about one step tests, fast and accurate results are obtainable.