3 x Bowel Cancer Test GP Professional Colon Health Faecal Occult Blood FOB Tests

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• The faecal occult blood (FOB) test detects small amounts of blood in your faeces, which you would not normally see or be aware of.
• There are several disorders which may cause bleeding into the gut (intestine) - for example, gastric or duodenal ulcers, ulcerative colitis, bowel polyps and bowel (colorectal) cancer.
• You obtain a pea sized sample by using a small scraper to scrape some stool off toilet tissue which you have just used after going to the toilet.
• Usually two or three FOB tests are done on two or three separate stool samples, obtained on different days. This is because a bleeding disorder of the gut (intestine) may only bleed now and then.
• This Bowel Health Test is a rapid professional test to qualitatively detect low levels of faecal occult blood in your stool sample. Faecal blood can also be known as FOB, human occult blood, or human haemoglobin.
• The test can detect faecal occult blood at 50 ng/ml or higher, or 6 μg/g faeces. A positive result identifying blood in your poo will be visible in just 5 minutes.
• This could be caused by conditions such as piles (haemorrhoids), a bleeding polyp, inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or bowel cancer. Usually these have no early symptoms except tiny amounts of blood in your poo, which are usually unseen and unnoticed.
• This bowel health test will identify whether you have occult blood in your faeces in just 5 minutes, which can be a sign of colon cancer, bowel cancer, polyps, colitis or diverticulitis.
• In the early stages, gastrointestinal problems like these may not show any visible symptoms, and can only be picked up by finding small traces of blood in stool samples, so it is very important to check regularly.