Bilirubin test

A waste product of recycling red blood cells. When it is only slightly high, it is often harmless.

€4.10. You pay at the desk, not online.

Bilirubin test: what it is for

Bilirubin is a yellow pigment made when your body recycles old red blood cells. Your liver processes it and clears it in bile. Your report may split it into total, direct and indirect. If it is only slightly high and your other liver tests are normal, Gilbert’s syndrome, which is common and harmless, is often behind it.

Why it is done

If your liver or bile ducts cannot clear it, or if red blood cells break down too fast, bilirubin rises.

How the bilirubin test is done

It is a blood test, done at a Bianalisi lab without a prescription. You can add other tests to the same draw.

Questions about the bilirubin test.

Do I need to fast for a bilirubin test? The overnight fast is enough: do not stretch it. A long fast, a fever or a hard workout raise it for a while.

How much does the bilirubin test cost? €4.10, from Bianalisi’s private list for Lombardy. You pay at the desk on the day of the draw, not online.

Do I need a prescription for the bilirubin test? No. You book it here without a prescription and pay at the Bianalisi desk.

When do results arrive? Within 10 working days, in the Rosa app, with each value next to the lab’s interval. The report a doctor approves is in the Rosa membership.