Precautions for routine urine tests

  Urine routine examination precautions first and foremost is to retain urine specimens should generally try to use fresh morning urine, because less water at night, the kidneys discharge to the urine in a variety of components are stored in the bladder and concentrated, easy to find, improve the positive detection rate, other randomly retained urine can also be, but should be retained in the middle of the urine is good.  Notes on routine urine examination: 1, urine routine examination, retention of urine of not less than 10 ml.  2, women are generally required to avoid taking urine specimens during menstruation to prevent vaginal secretions from mixing into the urine and affecting the test results.  3, it is best to retain the middle section of urine.  Many patients with kidney disease have asked why it is necessary to consciously retain the middle segment of urine during routine urine examination. According to the sequence of urination, urine can be divided into anterior, middle and posterior segments. Because the anterior segment and posterior segment urine are easily contaminated, therefore, when doing routine urine and urine bacteriological examination, middle segment urine is usually retained.  4.The urine should be retained in clean and dry containers, i.e. disposable urine cups and urine test tubes provided by the hospital.  5, the retained urine should be sent to the laboratory for examination as soon as possible, because too much time will have problems such as glucose decomposition by bacteria, tubular destruction and cell lysis, which will affect the accuracy of the test results.  Therefore, when doing routine urine examination, pay attention to the correct specification of collecting urine specimens, is the key to ensure the accuracy of routine urine examination results.  Notes on routine urine microscopy: 1, the urine specimen must be fresh, otherwise after a few hours of parking, red blood cells can be destroyed, white blood cells can be destroyed and pus urine disappears.  2, urine specimens must be clean. Women should wash their vulva, do not mix in the leukorrhea. If there are a large number of polygonal epithelial cells in the urine sediment, it may have been mixed into the leucorrhoea, it is appropriate to keep a clean urine specimen for re-examination.  3, urinary tract infection pus urine is often intermittent, so it is appropriate to repeatedly check several times before drawing conclusions.  4, after the use of antibacterial drugs, can affect the accuracy of the examination.  Notes on routine urine examination for children: urine should be collected using a clean container, which is provided by professional medical examination institutions. Retained urine volume is usually around 20ml, the first urine in the morning is appropriate, and it is best to send it for examination within 30-60 minutes. Girls should first clean their perineum when retaining urine, do not mix it with stool, and should avoid menstrual periods so that other secretions do not mix in. To do the urine culture to stay in the middle of the urine, that is, first discard the previous section, collect the middle of the urine.  The routine urine test for pregnant women is one of the most commonly used tests in hospitals and is one of the basic indicators reflecting the health status of the body. Urine routine examination is one of the items of prenatal examination for pregnant women, what matters should be noted in urine routine examination for pregnant women? The following are the precautions for routine urine examination, please pay attention to the mother-to-be and other patients who will undergo routine urine examination: 1, the urine specimen must be fresh. After a few hours of urine storage, white blood cells can be destroyed and pus urine disappears, glucose is decomposed by bacteria, tubular destruction, cell lysis and other problems arise, which will affect the accuracy of the test results.  2, the urine specimen must be clean. Women should avoid menstruation, wash the vulva, do not mix in leukorrhea and blood; male patients do not mix in prostate fluid, etc. According to the order of urination, urine can be divided into anterior, middle and posterior segments. Because the anterior and posterior segments of urine are easily contaminated, the middle segment of urine is usually retained when doing routine urine and urine bacteriology tests. A clean container should be used for urine collection, such as a clean urine cup provided by the hospital. If the urine is contaminated by leucorrhoea, etc., a clean urine specimen must be retained for retesting.  3, the amount of urine sent for examination: generally not less than 10ml (at least up to half the amount of the urine cup).  4, urinary tract infection pus urine is often intermittent, so it is appropriate to repeatedly check several times before drawing conclusions.  5, after the use of antibacterial drugs, can affect the accuracy of the examination.  Routine urine examination for pregnant women is a routine medical examination that should be performed from the time of pregnancy until delivery, that is, each pregnant woman should have about 9-13 routine urine examinations during pregnancy. However, in the daily work of the laboratory, we often encounter many mothers-to-be who do not know how to properly collect urine specimens for examination. When doing routine urine tests, the collection of urine specimens must be properly standardized to ensure accurate urine test results.  Time to collect urine: Any time to discharge urine can be done for routine laboratory tests. General kidney disease patients for the observation of the results before and after the provisions of the first urine early in the morning to wake up for testing.