Description
The Silex Underactive Thyroid Self Test uses a fingerprick blood sample to measure the TSH level in your blood to identify an underactive thyroid. This clinically tested TSH rapid test provides results that are over 98% accurate in just 10 minutes.
The symptoms of an underactive thyroid are often vague and usually develop quite slowly such that you may not notice them. When the body doesn’t have enough thyroid hormone many of the body’s functions slow down. The most common symptoms are tiredness, weight gain, low mood, sensitivity to the cold, dry skin and dry hair, muscle aches, weakness and cramps, constipation, loss of libido (sex drive) and irregular or heavy periods.
View the Silex Underactive Thyroid Self Test package insert
What's Included?
- Test Cassette
- Capillary Dropper
- Buffer
- Alcohol Pad
- Lancet
- Package Insert
- Brand Card
How to Use
- Wash your hands with soap and rinse with clear warm water.
- Bring the pouch to room temperature before opening it. Open the foil pouch and get out the cassette.
- Carefully pull off and dispose the released cap of the lancet.
- Use the provided alcohol pad to clean the fingertip of the middle or ring finger as the puncture site.
- Press the lancet, on the side from where the cap was extracted; against the fingertip (Side of ring finger is advised). The tip retracts automatically and safely after use.
- Keeping the hand down massage the end that was pricked to obtain a blood drop.
- Without squeezing the capillary dropper bulb, put it in contact with the blood. The blood migrates into the capillary dropper to the line indicated on the capillary dropper. You may massage again your finger to obtain more blood if the line is not reached. Avoid air bubbles.
- Put the blood collected into the sample well of the cassette, by squeezing on the dropper bulb.
- Wait for the blood to be totally dispensed in the well. Unscrew the cap of the buffer bottle and add 2 drops of buffer into the sample well of the cassette.
- Wait for the colored line(s) to appear. Read results at 10 minutes. Do not interpret the result after 20 minutes.
