How will this dose of ibuprofen affect a fasting blood test?

Question

If a patient had a 400 mg dose of over-the-counter ibuprofen 4 hours prior to a fasting blood test, how would it affect the outcome of the test? Would the water that was taken with the medicine affect it at all?

Answer 1

Water will not affect the blood work.  Ibuprofen shouldn't be a problem either.  I assume this is for a lipid panel, cholesterol and such.  I don't think that even if the blood work were to include a fasting blood sugar it would be affected. Any sugar that might be in the ibuprofen would be out of your system after 4 hours.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Water, no.

I'm not certain on ibuprofen, buy I'm making a semi-educated guess that it's no, at least not directly.