whats a good power for a microscope for looking at blood smears? also ive been recomended to use a mixture of mehylene blue with eosin to get a good colour contrast, so will the red blood cells just be pink (no nucliei) and while cells will be pink with a blue center and then the plasma will be light pink right? and whats the ratio of white blood cells to red? also is there any other tests i could do on the blood, i think i could do glucose with my grandads deiabitis machine or is that for something else?

i also heard you can do stuff with chromatography? (typo)

why dont ya experiment yourself?

Depending on your dye saturation, the type of blood, and many other variables, you may get a pretty pictue or not under the microscope.

I simply recomend experimenting, and dont prick yourself too much if youre using your on blood

If you want blood samples from people who are squeemish and won't be poked, tap their nuckles with the teeth of a clean comb. Then ask them to spin their arms around like a windmill three times. Blood will be running down their nuckles and it was painless. Just a tip.

Just aman

If you want blood samples from people who are squeemish and won't be poked' date=' tap their nuckles with the teeth of a clean comb. Then ask them to spin their arms around like a windmill three times. Blood will be running down their nuckles and it was painless. Just a tip.

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or you can call on me and my services and i'll make a nice and clean incision with my broad sword

Isn't that a little extreme for such a small amount of blood?

You can get a clean view of a blood sample with almost every microscope, I even did it with the kind of microscopes they sell for children, bu then you can't see the individual cells but only colours.. In one mm³ blood you have about:

-5000.000 red bloodcells

-7000 white bloodcells (x10 if you have a serious infection)

thanks guys, i think i might borrow a few sterile needles off my grandad. have to try that comb thing though...