Looking to understand your vitamin A status and ensure you’re supporting healthy vision, immunity, and cellular repair with personalised retinol insights?
Optimise your vision, immunity, and cellular health with our Vitamin A Test. This test measures retinol levels to identify whether your diet supports adequate vitamin A status.
Your at-home test kit and all instructions are posted directly to you (with free shipping). You do not need to visit a collection centre.
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How At-Home Testing Works
Get tested from the comfort of your home with our simple three-step process.
1
Order your test kit
Choose the test that's right for you and receive your kit delivered to your door.
2
Collect your sample
Follow the simple instructions to collect your sample at home.
3
Get your results
Receive your results online and get personalised health insights.
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Overview
This test measures retinol—the active form of vitamin A responsible for supporting immune function, vision, skin health, and cellular repair. Maintaining optimal vitamin A levels helps ensure proper growth, tissue regeneration, and barrier protection. By assessing your retinol status, this test helps determine whether your diet provides enough vitamin A to meet your body’s needs.
Vitamin A deficiency or excess can lead to issues such as night vision difficulties, dry skin, hair loss, frequent infections, and fatigue. Individuals with restricted diets, digestive challenges, or chronic health conditions may be more prone to imbalance. This test enables personalised nutritional adjustments that help optimise skin health, immunity, and overall wellbeing.
Symptoms
This test identifies low or excessive vitamin A levels, which are crucial for vision, immunity, skin health, and cellular repair. Symptoms of imbalance may include night vision difficulties, dry eyes, frequent infections, rough or dry skin, poor healing, or fatigue. It is helpful for those with restricted diets, fat-absorption issues, or conditions affecting immune or skin function.
Questions
It measures retinol, the active form of vitamin A.
Vitamin A is essential for vision, immunity, and skin and cellular health.
Yes. Retinol levels change with dietary and supplemental intake.
Fasting is not required, but large high-fat meals may slightly affect readings.
Those monitoring deficiency, malabsorption issues, or potential excess intake.
Dr. Vu Tran Bloody Good’s Chief Medical Officer
How to prepare
1. Prepare Your Kit
Wash your hands with warm water and dry them thoroughly. Lay out your kit’s contents — dried blood collection card, lancet, alcohol pad, gauze pad, bandage, and return envelope — on a clean surface. Warming your hands and shaking them gently can help increase blood flow for easier collection.
2. Collect Your Sample
Use the provided lancet to perform a quick finger prick. Allow one or more drops of blood to fall onto the designated circles on the dried blood spot card. Ensure the circles are fully saturated, but avoid touching the card with your fingers.
3. Let It Dry
Allow your blood spot sample to dry completely at room temperature before packaging. This usually takes a few minutes — do not cover or seal the card until dry.
4. Pack and Return
Once dry, place the card and all components back into the return envelope provided. Seal and mail it using the pre-paid return label. Your sample will be analysed at our specialised lab.
5. Receive Your Results
Lab analysis typically takes one week.
After the test
Once your results are ready, you can review them and discuss the findings with a qualified practitioner to interpret what they mean for your health and create an appropriate plan if needed.
Your test results will be available in your private dashboard. If there are any urgent issues, we'll let you know so you can follow up with your health professional.
Understanding results
Your report reflects your retinol levels, the primary active form of vitamin A. Results below the optimal range may relate to issues with vision, immunity, or skin health. High levels may suggest excess intake, so balancing your diet is key to maintaining healthy vitamin A levels.
