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Understanding your vitamin D is crucial as it plays a significant role in bone health and immune function by influencing calcium absorption in the body. This universal Vitamin D test will help you to identify the deficiency, insufficiency, sufficiency or excess of Vitamin D from a blood sample. It can be easily done at home without going or sending the blood samples to the lab.
Having low levels of vitamin D is a common problem that can lead to bone disorders and other medical problems. The World Health Organization reports that nearly 1 billion people have a vitamin D deficiency, especially in regions with consistent cloud cover. Vitamin D testing can let you know if you need to increase your vitamin D levels.
Vitamin D deficiency means you don’t have enough vitamin D in your body. It primarily causes issues with your bones and muscles. Anyone can have vitamin D deficiency, including infants, children and adults, however, several different biological and environmental factors can also put you at a greater risk of developing vitamin D deficiency, such as older age and the amount of melanin (pigment) in your skin.
Vitamin D regulates the amount of calcium that your body can absorb from the intestines into the bloodstream. Low vitamin D levels can increase your risk of osteoporosis and broken bones.
If your total vitamin D level shows a vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, it may mean:
The treatment for low vitamin D levels is usually supplements and/or dietary changes. This is usually safer than getting more sun, which may cause skin cancer.
You can get vitamin D in a variety of ways, including:
Despite all these methods to get vitamin D, vitamin D deficiency is a common worldwide problem nowadays.
A normal level of vitamin D is important for cell production in the body. A low level of Vitamin D therefore, can make us less resistant and more susceptible to infections. Vitamin D deficiency can also lead to muscle and skeletal breakdown as well as high blood pressure. There are also studies that point to a strong link between vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular disease, depression, and certain forms of cancer.
The most common Vitamin D deficiency might be observed through nonspecific symptoms such as:
Vitamin D refers to a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate and zinc. Vitamin deficiency has been linked to various serious diseases: Osteoporosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Cardiovascular Diseases, Pregnancy Complications, Diabetes, Depression, Strokes, Autoimmune Diseases, Flu, Different Cancers, Infectious Diseases, Alzheimer, Obesity and Higher Mortality etc.
Vitamin D is available in two forms: vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Vitamin D2 is mainly found in plant-based food and whereas vitamin D3 is made by your own body when it is exposed to sunlight. It is also found in animal-based foods. Before your body can use vitamin D, your liver must change it into another form called 25 hydroxyvitamin D, or 25(OH)D. Therefore, now detecting (25-OH) Vitamin D level is considered as “Medically Necessary Screening Test”, and maintaining sufficient levels of vitamin D means not just to improve bone health, but also to improve overall health and well-being.
In medicine, a 25-hydroxy Vitamin D blood test is used to determine Vitamin D concentration in the body. The blood concentration of 25-hydroxy Vitamin D (including D2 and D3) is considered the best indicator of Vitamin D status.
Our test lets you find out whether there is a deficit, insufficiency, sufficiency or excess of vitamin D in your body.
The Vitamin D Rapid Test Cassette is a rapid chromatographic immunoassay for the semi-quantitative detection of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 (OH) D) from a blood sample. The test provides a preliminary diagnostic test result and can be used to screening for Vitamin D deficiency with a very high 94.4% accuracy.
During testing, the mixture migrates upward on the membrane chromatographically by capillary action. The membrane is pre-coated with 25 (OH) D antigens on the test line region of the strip. The higher concentration of 25 (OH) D in the specimen, the lighter would be the T line. The result will be read according to Color card provided with the kit.
To serve as a procedural control, a colored line will always appear in the control line region indicating that proper volume of specimen has been added and membrane wicking has occurred.
You will need to take a blood (serum) sample from your fingerstick in order to perform Vitamin D Test.
Please follow the below steps to collect the blood sample:
Testing should be performed immediately after the fingerstick whole blood specimen has been collected.
Expiration Date: 12/2025
