Calcium (Ca) In Blood: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Drinking too much milk or using too much antacid, calcium salt, or calcium supplement.
- Taking medicines, such as diuretics, acetazolamide (Diamox), albuterol, estrogen, birth control pills, corticosteroids, and some medicines that control seizures.
- Taking too much vitamin D, lithium, laxatives, theophylline, or aspirin.
- Having many blood transfusions in a short period of time.
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| Last updated: | October 25, 2006 |
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| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Reviewed By: | Martin Gabica, MD - Family Medicine, Philip Belitsky, MD, FRCSC - Urology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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