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Occult blood
Blood that is not visible to the eye, but that can be detected through testing.
Dr. Dean Giannone reviewed this
27 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 35-year old asked:
What does occult blood mean?
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What does occult blood 3 mean?
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A 34-year old asked:
What does occult blood 2+ mean?
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A 43-year old female asked:
What meen occult blood- trace abnormal ?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: occult blood?
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A 74-year old female asked:
What does occult blood result of "small" mean in a urinalysis? All other results OK?
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A 75-year old female asked:
What does a result of Occult Blood 3+ mean. The sample was taken during an attack of diverticulitis?
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A 47-year old female asked:
I had trace occult blood in my urinalysis. The followup, a month later came back the same. I'm a 47 yr. old female. What should my next step be?
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A 53-year old female asked:
I have occult blood in my stools?
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A 37-year old asked:
Urinalysis results show 1 occult blood?
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A 49-year old asked:
Faecal occult blood test positive danger?
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A 58-year old female asked:
What 1+ occult blood negative in urine means?
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A 34-year old asked:
What is the principle behind the occult blood test?
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A 37-year old asked:
5.0 urine pH and trace occult blood. Is this normal?
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A 39-year old asked:
Is it true that occult blood is more comon with cancer?
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A 38-year old female asked:
Which is more common with cancer, occult blood or blood that you can see. Does this change as disease progresses?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Every time I have a urinanalysis done, I get either trace or 1+ for occult blood. Latest was "trace-lysed", rbc 1-3. Why?
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A 36-year old female asked:
My 10 year old's urine shows +1 occult blood. Is this concerning and what could it be? He's had 2 done and shows same results.
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A 38-year old asked:
Eating tomato can cause occult blood test positive?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: fecal occult blood?
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A 44-year old asked:
What will a occult blood result of 1+ mean on a urinalysis lab test?
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A 43-year old asked:
My 14 month old girl has has occult blood report, what does that mean?
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A 52-year old female asked:
What diet should I follow before getting g tested for fecal occult blood?
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A 67-year old male asked:
Please prescribe Cologuard test. I have had 2 clean colonoscopies 6 and 11 years ago. But occult blood recently.
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A 57-year old male asked:
So if last year I had negative occult blood test but a year later have positive blood occult test, is it possible something was miss last year?
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A 39-year old asked:
How reliable is stool occult blood?
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A 47-year old female asked:
Occult blood in stool. Should i be worried?47 f
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A 40-year old asked:
Can a hernia cause occult blood urine?
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A 21-year old asked:
How are fecal occult blood tests performed?
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A 46-year old asked:
Occult blood trace protein trace and leukocytes trace what do it cause?
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