The dried blood spot, for instance, is a well-known WHO recommended alternative to whole blood. And this, naturally, got me thinking about dried sputum spots, dried urine spots, dried semen spots and so on.
I tried to find out what tests you could try to do with dried urine spots- could you check for protein in the urine, pus cells maybe, bacteria? Could you extract DNA out of it?
When I Googled the same for semen, the first hit I got was this: Checkmate Dried Semen Spot Instant Check.
Hmm... let's see what they instant- check, I thought to myself. If you notice the page, there's no description in the beginning, other than the title and the pic. But hey, there were two reviews. I scrolled down to the reviews.
And I encourage you to do the same.
It took me three readings, THREE, of the longer review there to finally figure out what this person was talking about.
Weird! W-E-I-R-D!
The internet can be a strange and scary place.
