Precautions

To ensure the integrity of your samples and to ensure getting accurate test results, please abide by the following precautions and instructions for sample collection:

Urine culture

  • Washing the hands and genitalia with soap and water
  • Use disinfectant (Dettol), then wash again with water to remove the excess disinfectant
  • Empty the first drops of urine into the toilet and put the rest in the sterile container provided by the laboratory
  • It must arrive at the laboratory within two hours at most, in case the sample is sent from home​
  • Not taking antibiotics for 48 hours
  • Urine analysis 3 consecutive days:
  • The first sample in the morning for 3 consecutive days

Lipid analysis

  • asting is required from 10-12 hours (drinking water is allowed)

Fasting sugar​

  • Fasting is required from 6-8 hours (drinking water is allowed).

Sugar two hours after eating

  • The two hours are counted from the start of eating.
  • It is required to finish eating within 10 minutes at most. If the patient is taking diabetes medication, the treatment is taken.
  • Please arrive to the laboratory 15 minutes before the time for the analysis

Spit 3 consecutive days​

  • The first sputum sample in the morning after gargling with water
  • Samples are brought daily for 3 consecutive days

Semen analysis​

  • It is required to abstain from sexual intercourse for 4 consecutive days
  • It is preferable to give the sample in the laboratory, taking care to place all the sample, including the first points of sperm, in the container for that
  • The sample should be brought to the laboratory within 20 minutes if the sample was brought from home​

Gynecology swab

(appointment is booked in advance)
  • It is required not to have sexual intercourse for two days.
  • Not washing the vagina on the day of the analysis.
  • Abstain from the antibiotic for 48 hours

Stool analysis​

  • The sample is received in the laboratory container
  • The sample must arrive at the laboratory within two hours at most.
  • Do not accept samples in Pampers (diapers) or carton boxes
  • Abstain from the antibiotic for 48 hours.

PSA​

  • For 10 days before the analysis, the patient is prohibited from inserting an endoscope or catheter
  • Abstain from sexual intercourse for 48 hours

5 HIAA, VMA, Catecholamine Tests​

  • Collecting 24-hour urine as previously written
  • Stop drinking tea, coffee, biscuits, vanilla, bananas, pineapples, tomatoes, and eggplant.

Drug Level analysis

  • Take the medication for 5 days regularly.
  • It is required not to vomit or diarrhea for 48 hours before the analysis.
  • A sample is taken before the morning dose to calculate the percentage of the drug in the lowest (low) level.​
  • Another sample is taken after taking the drug 4 hours later to calculate the highest percentage of the drug in the blood (peak)

Prostate

(Period booking is a must)
  • It is required to abstain from sexual intercourse for 4 days before the analysis.
  • Withholding urine for an hour before the test, in order to take a urine sample before prostate massage and another urine sample after prostate massage
  • It is preferable to abstain from antibiotics for 24 hours before taking the sample.