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If a person with excellent diet habits, a stable and very good health indicators gets a blood test just after an unusual 'festive-abusive' diet day; like excess of salt, or sugar, or alcohol, or lipids, or whatever; do results reflect the test as if was a 'normal' state or there is something in the results that shows being a recent anomaly spike or is it indistinguishable ?

In other words; can an adverse blood test be a result of a very recent 'abuse' and not normal for the patient, to supposedly return to 'normals' in a few days ?

It depends on what parameters we are looking at. I think different health systems might include different parameters in a standard blood test. Those most sensitive to diet often are conducted after fasting. For fasting blood glucose level you are typically asked to stop eating for 8-12 hours before the draw, for example.

But most I can think of (e.g. blood cell counts, lipid profile, TSH, total protein etc.) generally are little impact from these types of short-term shock and/or normalize within hours.

30 minutes ago, Externet said:

In other words; can an adverse blood test be a result of a very recent 'abuse' and not normal for the patient, to supposedly return to 'normals' in a few days ?

Generally, blood tests determine how fast your body can cope with the 'abuses'.
Blood sugar, alcohol, salt, etc. are all meant to be controlled by a healthy body within hours ( up to 12 ), so accurate blood work is 'fasting'.
Even then, your results may vary, as not everyone is alike, and you are normal if within a range, usually a Gaussian with normal limits at 5% and 95% of the population.

For example, my Cholinesterase levels are naturally below the 5% standard, and at my 1st job in the chemical field ( hazardous waste ), I was always getting flagged for pesticide/nerve agent poisoning in my blood work, and was sent to many specialists, until one, at McMaster University, asked if our company doctor was an idiot who didn't know that unless poisons/nerve agents kill you, they inhibit Cholinesterase with a half-life of two weeks, and yearly Cholinesterase tests are useless.

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