All-in-one blood sampling machine?

[MichaelD]

I need to invent this. A machine that takes a drop of your blood, like a finger-prick that a Diabetic does and shows:

Bloodtype
Age
Sex
Allergies
Complete blood chemistry, including what vitamins and minerals your body is lacking/needing right now.
% of dehydration and sleep needed to get back on track

Wouldn't that be sweet? I'd be so rich.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I need to invent this. A machine that takes a drop of your blood, like a finger-prick that a Diabetic does and shows:

Bloodtype
Age
Sex
Allergies
Complete blood chemistry, including what vitamins and minerals your body is lacking/needing right now.
% of dehydration and sleep needed to get back on track

Wouldn't that be sweet? I'd be so rich.

You can't tell someone's age from blood sample. Other then that, yeah, but who'd use it?

 

[Schadenfroh]

you could use it as a form of identification if you could make it not hurt and make it where it would not bleed afterwords. btw make it where you dont even have to pierce the skin to do it. make it use somesort of microve imaging or something.

 

[Cycad]

Yes you would.

 

[Pliablemoose]

We've got something like this in our hospital, it fills a very large room, the samples are on tracks, it's cool as hell.

When it was installed several years ago, it was the most sophisticated hospital lab it the state.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
We've got something like this in our hospital, it fills a very large room, the samples are on tracks, it's cool as hell.

When it was installed several years ago, it was the most sophisticated hospital lab it the state.

Dang, another one of my great ideas, *crash* out the window. 😉

Eh, it was just a thought.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
We've got something like this in our hospital, it fills a very large room, the samples are on tracks, it's cool as hell.

When it was installed several years ago, it was the most sophisticated hospital lab it the state.

Dang, another one of my great ideas, *crash* out the window. 😉

Eh, it was just a thought.

Now if you could make a hand held model, like say glucometer sized...

 

[element]

Bloodtype - They Already have kits for this you can use at home
Age - If you don't know this you've got bigger problems to worry about
Sex - See age
Allergies - Go outside during pollen and ragweed season, sniff some flowers, if you develop symptoms, you're allergic. Let some bees sting you too while you're at it and find out if you're allergic to bee venom.

Complete blood chemistry, including what vitamins and minerals your body is lacking/needing right now.
- For this one, just follow the US RDA and you should be fine.

% of dehydration and sleep needed to get back on track - Drink plenty of fluids and get enough sleep every day. Especially if you subjected yourself to the allergy test shown above and it came out positive.

 

Originally posted by: element®
Bloodtype - They Already have kits for this you can use at home
Age - If you don't know this you've got bigger problems to worry about
Sex - See age
Allergies - Go outside during pollen and ragweed season, sniff some flowers, if you develop symptoms, you're allergic. Let some bees sting you too while you're at it and find out if you're allergic to bee venom.

Complete blood chemistry, including what vitamins and minerals your body is lacking/needing right now.
- For this one, just follow the US RDA and you should be fine.

% of dehydration and sleep needed to get back on track - Drink plenty of fluids and get enough sleep every day. Especially if you subjected yourself to the allergy test shown above and it came out positive.

Sure, we can find all that out - but wouldn't it be cool if you could put one drop of blood on a strip and a machine would tell you in 5 seconds?

 

[Miramonti]

gattica. 🙂