A chloride of 115
115 mmol/L
Markedly raised
Chloride of 115 mmol/L is markedly above the reference range by commonly reported adult reference ranges
| Where it fallscommonly reported adult reference ranges | Markedly raised |
|---|---|
| Chloride | 115mmol/L |
| Usual reference range | 98 – 107mmol/L |
| Markedly low | under 90mmol/L |
| Below the reference range | 90 – 97mmol/L |
| Normal | 98 – 107mmol/L |
| Above the reference range | 108 – 114mmol/L |
| Markedly raisedthis reading | 115 and abovemmol/L |
Notes
- One reading is not a diagnosis. Chloride moves with hydration, kidney handling of acid and base, vomiting or diarrhoea, and it usually moves with sodium. A clinician reads it against your history and usually against a repeat, not on its own.
- Reference ranges differ between laboratories. The bands above follow commonly reported adult reference ranges. Your own report prints the range its analyser was calibrated against, and that printed range is the one to compare against — a difference of a few units between labs is normal and does not mean either is wrong.
- Chloride is almost never read on its own. It is one of the four values that make up the anion gap — sodium minus chloride minus bicarbonate — and that gap is the reason the test exists. A chloride result without the sodium and bicarbonate beside it answers very little.
- It usually moves with sodium. Where the two diverge, that divergence is the information: chloride high while sodium is normal points at a metabolic acidosis with a normal anion gap, commonly from diarrhoea or from a kidney tubular problem. Chloride low with vomiting is the classic picture, because stomach acid is hydrochloric.
What chloride of 115 mmol/L means
A result of 115 mmol/L falls in Markedly raised by commonly reported adult reference ranges.
The usual reference range is 98 – 107 mmol/L.
Reading it next to the rest of the panel
Almost no blood test answers a question on its own. Each one narrows the field, and what narrows it further is the value sitting beside it on the same report — which is why a printout with one figure circled is harder to interpret than the whole page.
The bands here come from a named source rather than a rounded rule of thumb. A threshold is a decision point somebody argued for in print, and knowing which document a line comes from is what separates a meaningful result from a borderline one.
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