To obtain reliable data, the patient should know how to properly collect urine for a general analysis.
• On the eve of urine collection, you should not eat fatty, spicy, fried, sweet foods. If there are many products, they will affect the result.
• Do not use new drugs for 3-4 days. The exception is drugs on which the life and health of a woman depends. But they warn the attending physician, laboratory assistant.
• Immediately after waking up in the morning, they begin to collect urine, but before that you can not eat food or drink large amounts of water.
• Urine is collected in a sterile container, which is bought from a pharmacy. Do not use jars, bottles or other contaminated containers. Even if you clean and disinfect them yourself, foreign substances will remain inside. They affect the received data.
• Before emptying the bladder, the opening of the vagina is closed with a cotton swab. This is necessary so that foreign bacteria, discharge during pregnancy do not get into the sample.
• For general clinical examination of urine, the first portion of the liquid is lowered into the toilet, the middle one is collected in a container. After collection, the container is closed with a lid.
• The urine sample is immediately delivered to the laboratory. But there are times when it can be collected early in the morning when the clinic is closed. Then the liquid is placed on the door in the refrigerator. Do not put it in the freezer or the coldest parts of the refrigerator. The sample is left in the cold for no more than 2-3 hours. After this time, uncontrolled biochemical processes will begin that change the result.
With the growth of the uterus, the state of the internal organs. The liver, kidneys, digestive tract are compressed. Therefore, during pregnancy, clinical tests are constantly taken in order to detect deviations in a timely manner.