Live Blood Analysis

Live Blood Analysis (LBA), sometimes called Live Blood Cell Analysis, is the high resolution microscopic observation of live blood cells in a dark field, a common technique in microbiology called dark field microscopy. It is an unestablished diagnostic test used by some health care practitioners to determine a course of treatment. A drop of blood is taken from the patient's fingertip, put on a glass plate and viewed via a microscope on a video screen.sdfsd

Proponents believe that the method provides information "about the state of the immune system, possible vitamin deficiencies, amount of toxicity, pH and mineral imbalance, areas of concern and weaknesses, fungus and yeast." Some even claim it can "spot cancer and other degenerative immune system diseases up to two years before they would otherwise be detectable"; or say they can diagnose "lack of oxygen in the blood, low trace minerals, lack of exercise, too much alcohol or yeast, weak kidneys, bladder or spleen". While advocates of LBA continue to insist that it is a diagnostic method "valuable for the early detection of serious health conditions," Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula medical school at the University of Exeter and University of Plymouth notes that "No credible scientific studies have demonstrated the reliability of LBA for detecting any of the above conditions."

Researchers at the department of physiology and pharmacology at the Sackler faculty of medicine, University of Tel Aviv have reported that "the observation of low-frequency fluctuations of the cell membrane in erythrocytes and in several nucleated cells '(white blood cell)' suggest that this phenomenon may be a general property of the living cell. A study of these fluctuations in human erythrocytes and it's ghosts have now been carried out using a novel optical method based on point dark field microscopy."

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Regulatory issues in the U.S.A.
In 1996, the Pennsylvania Department of Laboratories informed three Pennsylvania chiropractors that Infinity2's "Nutritional Blood Analysis" could not be used for diagnostic purposes unless they maintain a laboratory that has both state and federal certification for complex testing

In 2001, the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General issued a report on regulation of "unestablished laboratory tests" that focused on live blood cell analysis. Most US " States agencies believe that 'Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments 1998'(CLIA) regulation of Live Blood Cell Analysis would help to insure the quality of testing and help protect patients from unscrupulous providers. Two-thirds of State agencies believe that CMS '(Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)' should change CLIA policies to better address Live Blood Cell Analysis and other unestablished tests. Most providers of unestablished laboratory tests agree that unestablished tests should be regulated to protect patients, but they feel that CLIA is the wrong program to do this."

In 2005, the Rhode Island department of Health ordered Joyce M. Martin, D.C., to stop performing live blood analysis. An attorney for the state Board of Examiners in Chiropractic Medicine described the test as as "useless" and a "money-making scheme " A state medical board official said that the test has no discernible value and the public should be very suspicious of any practitioner who offers it.

Critics of LBA
James A. Lowell Ph.D., ex-professor of life sciences at Pima Community College wrote a critical non-peer-reviewed article on LBA.