Neurological Toxins Panel - Blood Spot
Test Details
Lab Company: Vibrant Wellness
Sample Type: Blood Spot, Urine
Collection Location: At Home
This panel combines Vibrant Wellness' Tickborne Complete, Heavy Metals, Mycotoxins, and Neural Zoomer Plus tests. It analyzes a variety of toxins that affect neurological health.
🔑 Key Details | 📦 Shipping |
⏰ Preparation & Timing | 📊 Results |
🧪 Collection Instructions | 📚 More Resources |
💳 Requisition & Payment |
💬 Questions? |
Key Details
- You will collect a urine sample and 3 blood spot samples.
- You must avoid certain foods for 24 hours prior to your urine collection.
- Do not collect while menstruating.
- If you are taking immunomodulating medications, consult your healthcare practitioner regarding the timing of the blood spot test.
- Let the blood spot collection card dry for at least 2 hours prior to shipping.
- Ship samples via FedEx as soon as possible after collection.
- You must fill out the Testing Release Form and return it with your samples.
Preparation & Timing
- Fasting is not required.
- Fasting for 12 hours prior to your urine test may increase mycotoxin and heavy metal excretion.
- Consult with your healthcare practitioner to determine whether or not you should fast.
- Avoid the following foods for 24 hours prior to your urine collection.
- Seafood
- Seaweed/kelp
- Dairy products
- Brazil nuts
- Any other food high in iodine
- Any other food high in selenium
- Do not collect while menstruating.
- If you are taking any of the following medications, consult your healthcare provider regarding the timing of your test. These medications may produce falsely high or low antibody results.
- Steroids
- Immunosuppressive medications
- Biologic agents
- Any other immunomodulating medication
- You will collect your first morning urine prior to eating or drinking.
- You can collect your blood spot sample at any point during the day.
Collection Instructions
Urine Collection
- You will collect your urine sample immediately upon waking, before eating or drinking.
- If you drink water during the night, make sure you drink no more than 8 oz water in the hour prior to your collection.
- Collect your first morning urine in the provided urine collection cup.
- Open the specimen tube.
- Use the pipette to transfer the urine from the cup to the specimen tube.
- Fill to the top of the tube label.
- If you do not fill the tube to the top of the label, the lab may not have enough sample to run your tests.
- Recap the specimen tube by pushing down and twisting slightly.
- Discard the remaining urine and the urine collection cup.
- Write your name, date of birth, and the date and time of collection on the tube label.
- Place the label onto the specimen tube.
- Place the specimen tube into the biohazard bag and seal completely.
- Please be sure to fill out the Testing Release Form (you can find this paper in the same place as your requisition form).
- The form should look like this:
Blood Spot Collection
- Write your name, date of birth, and the date and time of collection on the collection cards.
- Wash your hands with warm (not hot) water.
- Dry your hands with a clean towel.
- Swing your arms around and rub your hands together to stimulate blood flow.
- Choose a finger on your non-dominant hand to poke.
- Rubbing your finger from base to tip a few times will help stimulate blood flow.
- In one single swoop, wipe the tip of your finger with the alcohol wipe.
- Open the lancet by twisting the cap off.
- Turn your palm up and press the lancet into the side of your chosen finger until you hear a click.
- Wipe the first drop of blood away with the gauze pad.
- Allow a blood drop to form.
- You can rub your finger from base to tip to stimulate blood flow.
- Let the blood drop fall from your finger into the collection circle.
- Do NOT touch your finger to the card.
- Fill the circle as full as possible.
- Do NOT add a second drop of blood to a circle.
- Fill in all of the circles on the collection card.
- Repeat steps 10-13 for each of the 3 blood spot cards.
- You can use the second lancet on another finger if you cannot produce enough blood.
- Use a gauze pad to wipe the blood off your finger and apply pressure.
- Bandage your finger.
- Leave the collection cards open to dry for at least 2 hours.
- Samples should be kept in a cool, dry place away from sunlight.
- Do NOT add additional blood drops after the spots have dried.
- Fold the collection cards.
- Place the collection cards in the biohazard bag with the humidity indicator and silica gel packs.
- Seal the bag tightly.
Requisition & Payment
- Your kit has been prepaid. You may need to pay an additional fee for phlebotomy.
- Instructions on how to fill out your requisition can be found HERE.
- Since you pre-paid for your tests, you do not need to fill in the payment information on any of these forms.
Shipping
- Ship your sample via FedEx as soon as possible.
- To provide your samples for shipping,
- Ensure the blood spot collection cards have dried for at least 2 hours and are completely dry.
- Place the blood spot collection cards in the biohazard bag with the humidity indicator and silica gel packs.
- Seal the bag tightly.
- Place your urine collection tube in the second biohazard bag.
- Place the completed test requisition form into one of the biohazard bags.
- Place the biohazard bags into the provided, prepaid bubble mailer.
- Make a note of your tracking number so that you can track your samples back to the lab.
- DO NOT place your samples in a FedEx dropbox.
Results
- Results should be released to your provider 7-14 days after samples are received at the lab. We cannot guarantee processing time.
- Your provider will notify you when your results are in and schedule a follow-up appointment for you to review them together.
- Your provider may choose to release your results to you. Rupa cannot release your results without provider authorization.
More Resources
- Individual Test Info Pages
- Collection Instructions
Questions?
For general questions, email Rupa Health at support@rupahealth.com. For test-specific questions, contact Vibrant Wellness by calling 1-866-364-0963 or chatting with support.