When having a FULL BLOOD COUNT done how many bottles of blood do they take?

Question

When having a FULL BLOOD COUNT done how many bottles of blood do they take?

Answer 1

what they said

Answer 2

For a full count they will have to remove 8 pints, so if they use pint bottles there will be 8. Homer could have answered this for you.

Answer 3

Come here sometime i will count it for you that how many they are.

Answer 4

Depends on what they are doing a blood clount for. I had a blood count done a few months ago & they took two bottles of blood. Good luck!

Answer 5

only one Bail is enough.  They do a blood smear and that's how they do the count.

Answer 6

Three to four vials if they are looking for something specific.

Routine full blood count is usually one vial.

Answer 7

they take it all and sell it to vampires

Answer 8

ask the doctor

Answer 9

As a couple people have indicated, only one small tube is required (and the top of it is lavender).

Answer 10

They take 5 small bottles of blood.

Answer 11

One usually per test. So one for full blood count, another if they are testing for lipids, another if they are teasting for glucuose - up to a maximum of 4 normally x*x

Answer 12

5,000 gallons of blood

Answer 13

Assuming you are in the UK a Full Blood Count or FBC is taken in one small vial with a purple top. It's about 4 - 5mls; not much more than tablespoon full!

The vial itself contains something called EDTA which stops the blood clotting.

A FBC will check for anaemia (i.e. lack of iron), white cell count (protection against infection etc) and platelets (for clotting). It's a very routine test.

I would assume it would be the same anywhere in the world.

Hope this helps.

Answer 14

if you mean a complete blood count (cbc)- they will usually only take a small lavender topped blood tube  (about 4 to 6ml- approximately 1 teaspoon)---- now they may also decided to draw blood for a full metabolic panel (to check liver, kidneys, etc) and that is a red or marbled top tube and they will take about 8 to 10ml of blood for that (about 1 1/2 to 2 tsps of blood for those test).---- it will really depend on what all tests are ordered

Answer 15

What a lot of completely crappy answers!  Those who have mentioned the lavender top 4 ml tube are correct.  Everyone else is not.

For little babies, a cbc can be done with less blood than that, but for adults, they take 4 ml.  Less than a teaspoon.

Answer 16

no bottles....probably just a couple of vials of blood for the full array maybe 4

Answer 17

Usually seven vials.

Answer 18

one tube ,

Answer 19

about half a bottle

Answer 20

When venturing to your physician for such things, it is dependent on the the tests one wants done on you blood. There is a vial taken for each different type of test, to the maximum of 7.

Answer 21

My god, most of the responses are clueless or misunderstood the question.

Anyways for a full blood count - that is called a CBC (complete blood count) - they just need a small vial of blood - which is purple topped and is 4ml sized.  You can find a pic on yahoo answers (search: cbc lavender tube).  They are counting the components of your blood - not how much blood you have.  

Now, if they are testing for other things as well - they might take a couple extra tubes.  But it still isn't very much.  All in all, a blood draw will take no more than a couple minutes start to finish.  

It isn't so bad.

Answer 22

They arent called bottles, they are called vials, and they only take like a pint, same as when you donate blood, only takes like 50 mins

Answer 23

You could have about 19 samples taken for a fairly complete evaluation.

Answer 24

CBC is 2 to 3 tubes

Answer 25

If "they" are vampires, probably as many as they can.  If "they" are doctors, probably only a small fraction of your total blood supply.

Answer 26

They just take not more than 500 ccm.

Franky