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Blood in faeces - collection of sample
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| Hi,
I am looking for some sort of paper to attach to the toilet seat to collect
faeces for testing.
Not just a piece of toilet paper, but something specially designed for this
purpose -
Does anyone have an idea what I am asking for and could you please help me
with a trade name?
Yours,
Leo
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| JEDilworth 2006-02-25, 8:48 pm |
| Use aluminum foil - heavy duty. You can pitch it when you're done. Saran
Wrap or equivalent will work also.
Do not contaminate with urine. Most stool tests don't require a ton of
specimen. A piece the size of a walnut is perfectly acceptable for most
testing (unless it's a 72 hour stool for fecal fat, in which case you
need the entire specimen and you should have gotten a collection device
from the laboratory).
Microbiology gets fecal specimens daily. Some patients get very creative
with collection.
The worst one I ever got was a huge gallon glass jar with all of the
feces at the bottom and I had to reach my [gloved] hand into it and get
some for sampling. Yuck! Please don't do that.
Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology (and lab technologist)
"Leo" <fupkonto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:43e9d55a$0$2484$edfadb0f@dread14.news.tele.dk...
> Hi,
> I am looking for some sort of paper to attach to the toilet seat to
collect
> faeces for testing.
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| JEDilworth 2006-02-25, 8:48 pm |
| Saran Wrap is a plastic food wrap (I didn't realize you were probably
from outside the US). Any sort of plastic wrap or plastic bag slipped
over the toilet seat would work fine. This will not interfere with
testing.
Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology
"JEDilworth" <bactitech@nospamhortonsbay.com> wrote in message
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> Use aluminum foil - heavy duty. You can pitch it when you're done.
Saran
> Wrap or equivalent will work also.
> "Leo" <fupkonto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:43e9d55a$0$2484$edfadb0f@dread14.news.tele.dk...
> collect
>
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| Hi again
Thank you very much for your answer. Yes I am from Europe. Denmark to be
precise.
The reason I am asking ia a call from a colleague who were in need of
/wanted to buy this. They are carrying out an investigation and would like
to standardize the collecting. In a former evaluation of another completely
different test where they also needed stool, they used the before mentioned
collecting papers, but noone has a clue where they got them from - and the
persons involved are no longer in reach. I have been in contact with all I
could think of within the supply business - and thought that perhaps some
of all you smart people in this group might have come across something
similar.
Thanks for your help.
Leo
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| John Gentile 2006-02-25, 8:48 pm |
| On 2006-02-09 04:58:49 -0500, "Leo" <fupkonto@hotmail.com> said:
> Hi again
> Thank you very much for your answer. Yes I am from Europe. Denmark to be
> precise.
> The reason I am asking ia a call from a colleague who were in need of
> /wanted to buy this. They are carrying out an investigation and would like
> to standardize the collecting. In a former evaluation of another completely
> different test where they also needed stool, they used the before mentioned
> collecting papers, but noone has a clue where they got them from - and the
> persons involved are no longer in reach. I have been in contact with all I
> could think of within the supply business - and thought that perhaps some
> of all you smart people in this group might have come across something
> similar.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Leo
I remember an item we used to call a "nun's cap" in which a plastic
collection cup was shaped with side arms that would fit on the toilet
seat in such a way that the cup was strategically placed under the
anus, and the urine stream would miss the cup.
I found this item and picture for sale on E-bay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=31479
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John Gentile
Editor
Rhode Island Apple Group
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| JEDilworth 2006-02-25, 8:48 pm |
| I think nurses over here call those "hats." Yes, those are the best if
you have access to them. I'm sure some medical supply house has these in
Denmark. You can turn them forward or backward depending if you need to
collect urine or feces. They are indispendsable for 24 hour urine
collections.
Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology
"John Gentile" <yjgent@cox.net> wrote in message
news:2006020921370475249%yjgent@coxnet...
> I remember an item we used to call a "nun's cap" in which a plastic
> collection cup was shaped with side arms that would fit on the toilet
> seat in such a way that the cup was strategically placed under the
> anus, and the urine stream would miss the cup.
>
> I found this item and picture for sale on E-bay:
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=31479
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| Thanks a lot to you both - I'll pass on the info.
Leo
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