ColoScreen and ColoScreen-ES
For those preferring classic guaiac paper slides, traditional ColoScreen and new ColoScreen-ES are cost effective, high quality products. A major issue facing medical staff today is How can we lower our costs, but not sacrifice quality One option is to replace higher cost occult blood tests with Helena's ColoScreen and ColoScreen-ES. With more than 22 years experience in occult blood products manufacturing, Helena has an outstanding reputation for low prices and high quality. ColoScreen occult blood products could save you as much as 40% off the list prices of other major brands. Additional savings are available with quantity and standing orders.

ColoScreen-ES is a lower cost, highest quality alternative to Beckman® Coulter Hemoccult® Sensa®. ES means extra sensitive and it provides a brighter blue color development that makes interpretation easy. ColoScreen and ColoScreen-ES slides are available as singles for laboratory use or in convenient triple slides for outpatient use. Each ColoScreen slide has two sample sites to allow testing from two different sites of the stool sample. Multiple sampling sites improve the chance of detecting a true positive. ColoCheck Monitors are impregnated into the guaiac paper of every slide to ensure proper performance of the slide and developer. Simply add a drop of developer to each ColoCheck Monitor and watch for a reaction.

ColoScreen and ColoScreen-ES
For those preferring classic guaiac paper slides, traditional ColoScreen and new ColoScreen-ES are cost effective, high quality products. A major issue facing medical staff today is How can we lower our costs, but not sacrifice quality One option is to replace higher cost occult blood tests with Helena's ColoScreen and ColoScreen-ES. With more than 22 years experience in occult blood products manufacturing, Helena has an outstanding reputation for low prices and high quality. ColoScreen occult blood products could save you as much as 40% off the list prices of other major brands. Additional savings are available with quantity and standing orders.

ColoScreen-ES is a lower cost, highest quality alternative to Beckman® Coulter Hemoccult® Sensa®. ES means extra sensitive and it provides a brighter blue color development that makes interpretation easy. ColoScreen and ColoScreen-ES slides are available as singles for laboratory use or in convenient triple slides for outpatient use. Each ColoScreen slide has two sample sites to allow testing from two different sites of the stool sample. Multiple sampling sites improve the chance of detecting a true positive. ColoCheck Monitors are impregnated into the guaiac paper of every slide to ensure proper performance of the slide and developer. Simply add a drop of developer to each ColoCheck Monitor and watch for a reaction.

ColoCARE
ColoCARE is the leading throw-in-the-bowl fecal occult blood test for detecting pre-symptomatic bleeding caused by gastrointestinal diseases. It is safer, easier and more pleasant to use than traditional guaiac slide tests. Simply place a ColoCARE test pad in the toilet after a bowel movement, watch for a color change, then flush the pad away. It's clean and disposable, easy for elderly patients to see and interpret, and extremely sensitive, with no increase in the false positive rate. It is more cost-effective than guaiac slide tests because it requires no stool handling, no chemical developers, no laboratory processing, and no mailing of biohazards. Elimination of stool handling overcomes the number one patient objection to occult blood testing, resulting in wider use of the test and leading to greater success in early detection of pathological conditions.

The test pad consists of biodegradable paper chemically treated with a chromogen. The pad is floated on the water surface in the toilet bowl. If detectable blood is present, the hemoglobin reacts with the chromogen, and a blue and/or green color reaction occurs. The test pad has three reaction sites: a large test square and two smaller control squares to verify the system functions properly.