Analyzes of blood and urine regularly have to pass to everyone. These procedures have long become commonplace. Therefore, when going to the laboratory once again, most patients do not even think about whether they can brush their teeth before donating blood or not. Everyone knows that the test should be performed on an empty stomach. Other warnings are not on hearing. And if you think about it, how do you treat your teeth with blood?
Can I brush my teeth before analyzing the blood?
In fact, there is a definite link between dentifrices and blood test results. And if you do not take it into account, the result of the research may turn out to be distorted, you will have to take the blood again. And this procedure, if to be frank, is not the most pleasant, and nobody would really like to repeat it in the near future.
Indeed, in most cases, you can brush your teeth before you donate blood. The main thing to keep the following rules:
- Directly before the procedure, it is desirable to get a good night's sleep.
- Three days before the analysis stop taking medication.
- For a couple of days before the study, it is necessary to exclude alcoholic beverages from the diet and preferably abandon cigarettes.
- You need to give blood completely to an empty stomach. In the morning, the patient can not even drink a cup of coffee.
- The analysis should be conducted before any kind of manipulation: X-ray, injections, massages and other physiotherapy procedures.
But there are cases when you can not chew gum or brush your teeth - before you donate blood to glucose , for example. The thing is that in the composition of pastes in a small amount, but still contains sugar. And it can easily be absorbed into the blood through the oral mucosa, which often affects the results of the analysis. That's why you can not brush your teeth before giving blood.