Guest guest Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Hello Group.  Last week we made our blood work in order to send the samples to the USA from Austria. But there were issues with the postal services and we didn't catch the time. However, samples of  serum stayed in the freezer (for a week now). I need advice if anyone knows are these samples still good for testing or not? I am interested in Amino Acids in plasma test in particular. I asked the doctor, she is going to ask the lab. But if someone tells me here that blood samples are safe while frozen, and for how long, then I would prefer to not let the lab know at all (the Lab is Genova). Is there any risk to get wrong results from such a sample?  I hate to repeat drawing blood because I do not want to take my son off his supps. It was hard to restart them after last break for tests.  It would be easy to say that it is not serious to do it this way, but we have the samples and we need to do tests. Do you guys think we could use our 8 days old frozen samples?  Sorry for long post, Best regards, Asem From: mosaictm <lisa369@...> Subject: [ ] Re: weeekly chelation Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:10 PM  My last bottle of ALA cost about $8. Other supplements were maybe $200 per month - for the whole family. > > How do people afford weekly chelation (350$)? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 26, 2010 Report Share Posted August 26, 2010 Check with the lab you plan on using. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Asem Demesinova <dmsnv@...> wrote: > > > > Hello Group. > > Last week we made our blood work in order to send the samples to the USA > from Austria. But there were issues with the postal services and we didn't > catch the time. However, samples of serum stayed in the freezer (for a week > now). I need advice if anyone knows are these samples still good for testing > or not? I am interested in Amino Acids in plasma test in particular. > I asked the doctor, she is going to ask the lab. But if someone tells me > here that blood samples are safe while frozen, and for how long, then I > would prefer to not let the lab know at all (the Lab is Genova). > Is there any risk to get wrong results from such a sample? > > I hate to repeat drawing blood because I do not want to take my son off his > supps. It was hard to restart them after last break for tests. > > It would be easy to say that it is not serious to do it this way, but we > have the samples and we need to do tests. Do you guys think we could use our > 8 days old frozen samples? > > Sorry for long post, > Best regards, > Asem > > > > From: mosaictm <lisa369@... <lisa369%40comcast.net>> > Subject: [ ] Re: weeekly chelation > < %40> > Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:10 PM > > > > My last bottle of ALA cost about $8. Other supplements were maybe $200 per > month - for the whole family. > > > > > > > > How do people afford weekly chelation (350$)? > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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