Iodine urine test UK and Europe
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Order guidelines and laboratory info
- Payment and ordering - You do not need a doctor’s referral to order the test, you can order the test on your own accord. If you are ordering for someone else please include their name at checkout. If you are ordering more than one of this particular test then please include the other name/s in the notes section at the final checkout screen. There are no age restrictions but the individual needs to be able to collect a valid sample, if you are unsure then please contact mindovermetal. Payment is made via PayPal, you will need to accept the cookie notification for the mindovermetal website at the bottom of the screen to be able to checkout via PayPal. You can pay via your PayPal account or if you do not have a PayPal account you can use your credit or debit card. After you have entered in your payment details via PayPal you will then be taken back to the order screen on the mindovermetal website, please then select ‘complete order’ in the ‘review and submit order’ section to completely confirm the order/payment. Once you have paid for the test you will receive a confirmation receipt email, if you do not receive the receipt email then please contact mindovermetal so one can be sent to you via email. If you are ordering the test outside of the UK and within Europe, there will be a £7 delivery fee of your overall order and not per test. The delivery fee is included in the price of the test for residents in the UK.
- Test kit delivery - The test kit is sent directly to your address. Test kits ordered before 3pm Monday to Friday will be sent out the same day. Test kits ordered after 3pm Monday to Thursday will be sent out the following day morning time. Test kits ordered after 3pm Friday and over the course of the weekend will not be sent out till Monday morning the following week. The time frame for receiving the test kit is 1 - 3 days within the UK and 2 - 7 days outside of the UK and within Europe, the delivery time frame will depend on which country you are ordering from. If you do not receive your test kit within the time frame then please contact mindovermetal.
- Testing laboratory - Biolab Medical Unit. They are based in the West End of London and they specialise in nutritional and environmental medicine by providing laboratory tests. Biolab is open Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm, they do not send test kits and results over the course of the weekend. For their website please click here. Please contact mindovermetal and not the laboratory if you have any issues with your test order or result.
- Test preparations/instructions - Avoid fish/seafood and iodised (sea) salt and supplements which contain iodine 48 hours prior to collecting the sample. A 24 hour, 6 hour, early morning and random urine collection is available for testing. A 24 hour urine collection with an accurate total volume is the preferred sample. The test kit will fit enough urine in for 24 hour collection or anything below this amount, there is only one size of the test kit.
- Patients should avoid iodine containing food supplements, fish & seafood and iodised (sea) salt for at least 48 hours prior to providing a random, mid-stream, urine specimen.
- Sample collection/sending - You can collect the sample at home, there is no need to collect the sample in a clinical environment. The test kit comes with instructions on how to collect the sample and with the relevant packaging and preserving substance for you to send the sample back to the laboratory (address details included). Once the sample has been collected you need to post the kit back to Biolab. Normal postal charges will apply (usually large letter rates if in the UK). It is advised to send the sample at the start of the week so that the laboratory receives it during the same working week (Biolab is closed at the weekend). The test does not expire and can be used at any time.
- Refunds - Refunds are only possible if the test kit is unused and no sample has been sent to Biolab. Refunds can only be processed within 60 days after ordering the test. If a refund is required then please contact mindovermetal.
- Results - The test result is sent directly to you from mindovermetal and not from Biolab. The result is sent to the email that you provide when you place your order, it will be sent as a downloadable document. The test result will come with a summary of your result reading. The test result is simple to understand and shows if you are above, below or within certain reference ranges. If there is anything you do not understand and unsure of in your test result then please contact mindovermetal by replying via the results email.
- Result turnaround time - The time frame for receiving your test result is 5 working days from the first day that it reaches the laboratory for processing. Please make a note of the date you send the sample and if you do not receive your results within this time frame then please contact mindovermetal.
- Example report - Please click below to download.
| Iodine urine test example |
- Support - Email support is included in the price of the test.
- For any issues regarding your test order please contact mindovermetal at – orders@mindovermetal.co.uk, Whatsapp is also available via the mindovermetal contact number. You can also call if need be and if you have more of an urgent issue.
Description from Biolab
Iodine is required in small amounts by humans, the current RDA being 150 micrograms per day; the only known function of iodine in man is as a component of the secretions of the thyroid gland, principally tri-iodothyronine and thyroxine. Iodine is one of the halogen series of elements (along with fluorine, chlorine and bromine); it was formerly used as an antiseptic, but is now regarded as too toxic for that purpose.
80 - 90% of the total serum iodine is incorporated into thyroxine, which is largely protein bound; the remainder (5 - 15%) of the serum iodine is in the form of iodide (the plasma inorganic iodide) and it is this fraction that is filtered at the glomerulus and passes into the formed urine. Regulation of body iodine does not occur via changes in the glomerular filtration rate (as occurs with other essential elements) but via iodine uptake into the thyroid gland.
A common method for correction of iodine deficiency is salt iodization - the addition of potassium iodate to salt for human and livestock consumption to give a concentration of c. 15 ppm of iodine - with the urinary iodine concentration as the principal indicator of effect. Measurement of thyroid size has a more limited role as an indicator because it reflects chronic rather than immediate iodine deficiency.
Urine creatinine can be co-analysed with iodine to correct for urine dilution in a short collection (6 hours, early morning urine or random urine collection). Expressed in this way, the reference interval for urine iodine is 0.16 - 0.42 mmol/mol creatinine.
80 - 90% of the total serum iodine is incorporated into thyroxine, which is largely protein bound; the remainder (5 - 15%) of the serum iodine is in the form of iodide (the plasma inorganic iodide) and it is this fraction that is filtered at the glomerulus and passes into the formed urine. Regulation of body iodine does not occur via changes in the glomerular filtration rate (as occurs with other essential elements) but via iodine uptake into the thyroid gland.
A common method for correction of iodine deficiency is salt iodization - the addition of potassium iodate to salt for human and livestock consumption to give a concentration of c. 15 ppm of iodine - with the urinary iodine concentration as the principal indicator of effect. Measurement of thyroid size has a more limited role as an indicator because it reflects chronic rather than immediate iodine deficiency.
Urine creatinine can be co-analysed with iodine to correct for urine dilution in a short collection (6 hours, early morning urine or random urine collection). Expressed in this way, the reference interval for urine iodine is 0.16 - 0.42 mmol/mol creatinine.
