blood test resultes - please help!

[avi21]

hey i've just got the results of my blood test
can someone please translate me these and tell me if my hair loss is because of vitamins ?

110- 70 mg/dl 78.0 GLUCOSE

50- 10 mg/dl 38 UREA

1.2- 0.7 mg/dl 0.98 CREATININE

150- 135 mEq/L 143.00 SODIUM

5.5- 3.5 mEq/L 3.60 POTASSIUM

10.5- 8.2 mg/dl 9.22 CALCIUM

155- 50 µg\dl 70 IRON

380- 200 mg/dl 240.00 TRANSFERRIN

200- 100 mg/dl 79 CHOLESTEROL

180- 30 mg/dl 67 TRIGLYCERIDES

120- 40 mg/dl 35 CHOLESTEROL- HDL

130- 60 mg/dl 31 CHOLESTEROL-LDL calc

37- 1 U/L 25 GOT (AST)

41- 1 U/L 24 GPT (ALT)

129- 40 U/L 63 ALK. PHOSPHATASE

480- 240 U/L 382 LDH

50- 7 U/L 17 GGT

8.5- 6 g/dl 7.5 PROTEIN-TOTAL

4.8- 3.5 g/dl 4.9 ALBUMIN

1.2- 0.1 mg/dl 0.37 BILIRUBIN-TOTAL

107- 68 µg\dl 119 ZINC

5.5- 0.3 mIU/L 1.49 TSH

670- 180 pmol/L 300 VITAMIN B12

45.0- 7.0 nmol/L 14.7 FOLIC ACID

10.8- 4.8 K/µL 6.12 WBC

74- 40 % 61.40 NEUT%

7- 0 % 1.50 EOS %

3- 0 % 0.30 BASO %

48- 19 % 29.00 LYM%

10- 3 % 7.80 MONO%

8- 1.9 K/µL 3.76 NEUT.abs

0.8- 0 K/µL 0.09 EOS.abs

0.2- 0 K/µL 0.02 BASO abs

5.2- 0.9 K/µL 1.78 LYMP.abs

1- 0.16 K/µL 0.48 MONO.abs

6.1- 4.7 M/µL 5.17 RBC

17.5- 14 g/dl 15.63 HB

52- 42 % 46.74 HCT

96- 80 fL 90.36 MCV

32- 26 % 30.22 MCH

37- 31 g/dl 33.44 MCHC

14.5- 11.5 % 13.09 RDW

420- 140 K/µL 267.00 PLT

11.1- 7.1 fL 8.45 MPV




thanks

 

[Thinning]

Uhh, all your values are spot on, with the exception of a few nutrients that are slightly better than normal ( high zinc, low cholesterol ). You should be proud of such blood work.

How could you possibly think you have nutrient related hairloss?

 

[avi21]

before i start with minoxidil (and i have alot what to lose )
i wanted to see if maybe it's because loss of vitamins...
guess not...

 

[Thinning]

You have a better chance of being hit by lightning than having your hairloss be due to nutrient deficiency.

 

[the_swami]

Actually low cholesterol is not a good thing (below the reference range that is). You need at least some as it is the ultimate hormone precursor. Just food for thought, I'm not a Dr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocholesterolemia

 

[the_swami]

You have a better chance of being hit by lightning than having your hairloss be due to nutrient deficiency.

I disagree. Many, many, many illnesses are caused by nutrient deficiency. For example there are many illnesses caused in third world countries simply due to vitamin deficiency (especially the B vitamin group and other water soluble vitamins as these are depleted rapidly). Don't worry though, just take a multi-vitamin.

 

[Thinning]

I disagree. Many, many, many illnesses are caused by nutrient deficiency. For example there are many illnesses caused in third world countries simply due to vitamin deficiency (especially the B vitamin group and other water soluble vitamins as these are depleted rapidly). Don't worry though, just take a multi-vitamin.

Yeah this guy is posting from a 3rd world country. Turns out his goat has AOL. And they routinely give out blood tests in those countries, ya know where they cant afford to eat.

Of course Im talking about 1st world nations.

The only places where people might have a problem in the USA or other first world countries is if they are extremly poor ( as in homeless level poor - in which case they would not be posting here ), or they have some sort of digestive disorder where they dont absorb things correctly.

If that was the case, this guys blood would be all f*cked up, and he wouldent be concerned about his hairloss because he would feel like crap and have about 100 other things that were more important to him than his hair.

I can pretty much guarentee nobody on this site is suffering from nutrient related hairloss, and nobody on this site is going to stop or reverse their hairloss by taking a multivitamin.

 

[the_swami]

The only places where people might have a problem in the USA or other first world countries is if they are extremly poor ( as in homeless level poor - in which case they would not be posting here ), or they have some sort of digestive disorder where they dont absorb things correctly.

Not so simple. Alcoholism and other very common situations can cause nutrient deficiency VERY easily.

If that was the case, this guys blood would be all f*cked up, and he wouldent be concerned about his hairloss because he would feel like crap and have about 100 other things that were more important to him than his hair.

That is a sweeping generalization.

I can pretty much guarentee nobody on this site is suffering from nutrient related hairloss, and nobody on this site is going to stop or reverse their hairloss by taking a multivitamin.

I didn't say he was going to "stop his hair loss by taking a multivitamin". I was saying if he is worried about it, just take a multi-vitamin. Geez. Talk about reading stuff between the lines that isn't there.

Also you're missing a point here: for most people here it's not that a nutrient deficiency is causing the hair loss, but rather can it help prevent further hair loss by taking a supra-RDA amount of nutrients? There is a difference between a deficiency, just barely meeting RDA levels, and a mega dose of a nutrient(s). All three will have different effects.