Prepare For Your Tests

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Most visits to our lab do not require appointments. Tests that usually require you to make an appointment include: 

• Oral Glucose Tolerance Tests (GTTs)
• Lactose and Xylose
• Urea Breath Tests for Helicobacter Pylori
• Breath Alcohol Testing
• Sputum Culture
• NIPT Test
• Bone Marrow Aspiration

It is recommended that you fast (no food, including chewing gum, or drink other than water) for a minimum of 10 hours prior to your visit for the following tests:

• Glucose
• Oral Glucose Tolerance (GTT)
• Lactose Tolerance
• Cholesterol
• HDL Cholesterol
• LDL Cholesterol
• Triglyceride
• Homocysteine

NOTE: the best time to have a fasting-blood test is the first thing in the morning. If you get a full seven- to eight-hour night’s sleep and show up at the lab in the morning, it’s likely you won’t even notice that you haven’t eaten.

Follow these directions carefully to provide a suitable sample:

1. Stool specimens for culture must be collected in a special container.
2.  The containers required to collect suitable samples are provided from the lab.
3. The containers required to collect suitable samples are provided at our laboratory.
4. Do not remove any tablets or other preservatives that are in the bottles.
5. Clearly label container with your full name.
6. In the morning, completely empty the bladder into the toilet as usual.
7. This specimen is NOT collected for testing.
8. Write “collection started” and time and date in appropriate space on container label.
9. Add all urine passed over the next 24 hours to container, always place urine into container immediately.
10. The following morning, exactly 24 hours later (to the hour) empty bladder completely and add final specimen to container.
11. This final addition completes the 24-hour collection period started the day before.
12. Keep collection bottle in cool place or refrigerate.
13. Return 24-hour collection as soon as possible to the laboratory.

•  Patients must abstain from intercourse for 2-7 days prior to testing.
• DO NOT use a condom.
• Collect ALL seminal fluid into sterile container provided, as greatest concentration of sperm is found in first portion of ejaculate.
• Clearly label the container with your full name, date and time of collection.

Follow these directions carefully to provide a suitable sample:

Bring the sample to the lab within 2 hours of collection. If you are unable to deliver the sample within 2 hours, the sample may be refrigerated for up to 8 hours.

• Clearly label containers with your full name and date of collection.
• Collect feces in a dry, clean container such as a chamber pot, plastic bag, plastic jar, and wide mouth jar.
• Avoid stool contact with urine or toilet water.
• Add a teaspoonful of feces to the special container immediately after bowel movement.
• Select bloody or mucous-covered areas if seen.
• Screw cap tightly onto container.
• Return container to the lab as soon as possible.

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

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