Iron Status Home Test Kit
Comprehensive testing of your iron levels to assess your body's iron balance.
Iron Status Home Test Kit
Comprehensive testing of your iron levels to assess your body's iron balance.
£69.00
Includes FREE delivery!
Tiredness, brain fog, or getting short of breath can be difficult to interpret. Iron is often suspected, but a single iron number rarely tells you why you feel the way you do.
Vitall’s Iron Profile (Iron Studies) measures iron status alongside markers that reflect how your body stores and transports iron, including ferritin, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity, transferrin saturation, and unsaturated iron binding capacity. This helps you understand patterns more consistent with low intake versus changes that can occur with inflammation.
If you are already taking iron, these results can also help you assess response and whether your current approach still makes sense. Order the Iron Profile for a clearer, more grounded next step.
How would you like to take your test?
How would you like to take your test?
What the Iron Status test is for
Tiredness, brain fog, low exercise tolerance, or feeling short of breath can be difficult to interpret in day to day life. Iron is often suspected, but looking at a single iron result can miss the bigger picture. This home blood test, sometimes called Iron Studies, is designed to give a more complete view of your iron status by measuring not only circulating iron, but also how your body stores and transports it.
Alongside serum iron, it includes ferritin to reflect iron stores, and measures such as total iron binding capacity, transferrin saturation, and unsaturated iron binding capacity to show how much iron is available and how well it is being carried in the blood. Taken together, these markers can help distinguish patterns that fit with low iron intake or iron deficiency from changes that may be influenced by inflammation or illness. That context matters, because two people can have similar symptoms but very different underlying results.
If you are already taking iron, this test can also help you judge whether your current approach makes sense and whether your levels appear to be improving. It is a practical way to move from guesswork to evidence, using a home test kit that supports testing from home, with results you can use to plan a clearer next step.
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What's included in your test?
The following sample guidance is required for this test, please follow carefully:
- One easy self-collection sample
- Your sample should be collected in the morning in a fasted state: i.e. without eating or drinking anything except water for 8 - 12 hours beforehand.
Get tested fast with a home test kit, using a finger-prick blood sample. Collect easily with no needles, with free priority postage to an accredited laboratory.
You can also opt for a clinic visit, for professional sample collection by experienced staff, in a comfortable & caring environment.
This Iron Status test measures the following biomarkers to comprehensive testing of your iron levels to assess your body's iron balance..
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Learn how the self collection process works, what's in the kit, and your options for clinic and home nurses visits.
How this works ›Why take the Iron Status test?
This test is best suited if you feel persistently tired, foggy, short of breath, pale, or notice reduced exercise tolerance and want to check whether iron status could be contributing.
It is also for anyone with a previous low or borderline ferritin or iron result who wants a fuller iron study panel to clarify the pattern.
If you follow a restrictive diet, particularly vegetarian or vegan, it can help you understand whether your intake is meeting your needs.
If you are taking iron supplements, it is useful for assessing response, and whether you still need them or if your dose may need to change.
It is a practical option if you have had a recent illness or suspect inflammation and want to distinguish possible iron deficiency from inflammation-related shifts in iron markers.
- Are on any restrictive diet (vegans & vegetarian especially)
- Are taking iron supplements and want to assess whether you are responding and whether you still need them
- Are taking iron supplements and want to check whether you still need them or if your dose should change
- Experience breathlessness or reduced exercise tolerance and want to check whether haemoglobin/red blood cell levels could be limiting oxygen delivery
- Feel tired all the time with low energy
- have a previous low or borderline ferritin/iron result and want a fuller iron study panel (TIBC, transferrin saturation, UIBC) to clarify the pattern.
- have suspected inflammation or recent illness and want to distinguish iron deficiency from inflammation-related changes affecting iron markers.
- Have symptoms of anemia (often including fatigue, paleness, difficulty exercising)
- Have symptoms such as brain fog or shortness of breath and want to check whether iron deficiency or inflammation-related changes may be contributing
- Suffer from chronic fatigue & tiredness
- Want to assess iron status (ferritin/iron) and B12/folate to investigate fatigue/low energy or heavy periods
- Want to assess whether absorption or iron storage may be an issue using markers like ferritin alongside vitamins/minerals.
- Want to check your body for infection or inflammation
- Wish to assess whether you are suffering from anaemia
Order your Iron Status test and get the insights you need to feel your best.
Expert Analysis In An Accredited Laboratory
Once your sample reaches the UKAS-accredited lab, the magic begins. But this isn't simple science – we insist on state-of-the-art automated technology to ensure your results are processed with unmatched accuracy and efficiency.
- UKCA marked test kits for full regulatory compliance.
- IVDD certified diagnostics for total quality reassurance.
- Medically led UKAS accredited laboratory testing for accurate results.
Dr. Kate Bishop
Chief Scientific Officer
"All testing is conducted by healthcare professionals in a medically-led laboratory. Accredited lab testing is the best way to be confident that your test results are accurate. Get tested now for complete reassurance."
Delivery and results
The Iron Status test offers a Finger-prick blood home test kit, clinic visit or home nurse visit for sample collection. Kits are posted to your home free of charge.
Easily sampling from home or at a clinic offers you the most convenient and stress-free way to get tested. Your test also includes free 24 hour tracked sample return to the laboratory.
1. Order Your Test
2. Post Your Samples
3. Get Your Results
Ferritin is a blood protein that is high in iron, making it a very good indicator of the overall amount of iron stored in the body.
Iron is crucial for the production of healthy red blood cells, and deficiencies may eventually lead to iron deficiency anaemia.
Ferritin is a protein known as acute phase reactant - this means that levels of ferritin are increase when the body has to respond to an insult such as infection, inflammation, trauma or cancer. When the test is done whilst the patient is suffering from these condition, interpretation can be very tricky. Alternatively, ferritin can also be used to monitor resolution of inflammation in certain conditions
| Test | Result | Reference | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferritin (Iron) | 101ug/L | 30 - 169 | Normal |
101 Ferritin is a blood protein that is high in iron, making it a very good indicator of the overall amount of iron stored in the body. Iron is crucial for the production of healthy red blood cells, and deficiencies may eventually lead to ir | |||
| Total Iron-Binding Capacity | 63umol/L | 45 - 81 | Normal |
| Transferrin Saturation | 52% | 25 - 45 | High |
| Serum Iron | 33.2umol/L | 10.0 - 30.0 | High |
| Unsaturated Iron Binding Capacity | 30.2umol/L | 13.0 - 56.0 | Normal |
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Detailed Explanations Each marker includes an overview of its role in your body, what it means to have high or low levels, and actionable tips to improve.
Tracked Changes See how your health markers have changed over time, track your progress, and optimise your health.
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Advanced AI summarises key findings, highlights patterns across markers, and explains what results like these are commonly associated with.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Home test kits contain full instructions and everything you need to safely collect and return your sample. Please see the following details relating to this test below:
- One easy self-collection sample
- Your sample should be collected in the morning in a fasted state: i.e. without eating or drinking anything except water for 8 - 12 hours beforehand.
We also have a guide on how to collect a high quality sample which you may find useful.
The Vitall test is available online for just £69.00. Your home test kit will be dispatched by free first class post for delivery to your door.
When you checkout to buy your Iron Status test online we also offer additional options, including:
- Visit the Patient Reception in central London for just £35. Your Iron Status test sample can be collected by a qualified nurse for immediate analysis.
- Have a nurse visit you to collect the sample for your Iron Status test, this is nationwide for just £79.
Whichever option you choose at checkout, buying the best Iron Status test online in the UK with Vitall ensures high quality results from an accredited laboratory.
Take control of your health today with one of Vitall’s home blood tests.
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