What is dark field microscopy?
People never forget the first time they see their blood under a dark field microscope. They are simply amazed and bewildered by the magnitude and beauty of what is contained within a single drop of their blood. When viewing blood there is a high powered fiber optics light source in combination with a dark background (dark field). This combination allows us to view with much greater detail the visible parts of the blood. It’s like trying to see stars in the daytime (they are there) compared with viewing them at night against our blackened dome. And what can be seen? Red blood cells should be floating separate from one another in the sea of the serum but in some cases red blood cells become stuck to one another. The cells appears like stacked coins. Since these stacks of cells can’t pick up or deliver oxygen efficiently, people often suffer from fatigue and are tired from low oxygenation of their tissues. Some red blood cells membranes are thin and appear ghost-like. This is a sign of po
