For men: Pull back the foreskin, if you have one. Clean the head of the penis thoroughly with medicated towelettes or swabs.
For women: Spread open the folds of skin around the vagina with one hand. Then use your other hand to clean the area around the vagina and urethra thoroughly with medicated towelettes or swabs. Wipe the area from front to back to avoid spreading bacteria from the anus to the urethra. Start urinating into the toilet or urinal. Women should keep holding apart the folds of skin around the vagina while they urinate.
After the urine has flowed for several seconds, place the collection cup into the stream. Collect about 60 mL 2 fl oz of this "midstream" urine without stopping the flow.
Do not touch the rim of the cup to your genital area. And don't get toilet paper, pubic hair, stool feces , menstrual blood, or other foreign matter in the urine sample. Finish urinating into the toilet or urinal. Carefully replace the lid on the cup. Return the cup to the lab. If you are collecting the urine at home and can't get it to the lab in an hour, refrigerate it. Timed urine collection 24 hours You start collecting your urine in the morning.
When you first get up, empty your bladder but do not save this urine. Write down the time that you urinated. This marks the beginning of your hour collection period. For the next 24 hours, collect all your urine. Your doctor or lab will usually provide you with a large container that holds about 4 L 1 gal. The container has a small amount of preservative in it. Urinate into a small, clean container, and then pour the urine into the large container.
Do not touch the inside of either container with your fingers. Keep the large container in the refrigerator for the 24 hours. Empty your bladder for the final time at or just before the end of the hour period. Add this urine to the large container, and record the time.
Do not get toilet paper, pubic hair, stool feces , menstrual blood, or other foreign matter in the urine sample. How It Feels This test does not cause any pain. Risks Collecting a urine sample does not cause problems. Dipstick test for albumin. A dipstick test performed on a urine sample can detect the presence of albumin in the urine.
For the test, a nurse or technician places a dipstick, a strip of chemically treated paper, into the urine. The dipstick changes color if albumin is present in the urine. Albumin and creatinine measurement. A health care provider uses this measurement to determine the ratio between the albumin and creatinine in the urine and to estimate the amount of albumin excreted in 24 hours.
Creatinine is a waste product that is filtered in the kidneys and excreted in the urine. You may be able to reduce the amount of albumin in your urine by taking medicines that lower blood pressure called ACE inhibitors or ARBs. The names of these medicines end in -pril or -sartan. Protein is normally found in your blood. The main protein in your blood is called albumin.
Proteins have many important jobs in your body. For example, they help build your bones and muscles, prevent infection and control the amount of fluid in your blood. Healthy kidneys remove extra fluid and waste from your blood and transform it into urine. Healthy kidneys do not remove proteins and other important nutrients, which pass through and return to your blood.
But when your kidneys are damaged, they may let this protein leak into your urine. Wash your hands before you collect the urine. Prepare the container. If the container has a lid, remove the lid and set it down with the inner surface up.
Clean the area around your penis or vagina. Start to urinate into the toilet or urinal. Collect the urine in the container. Finish urinating.
Replace the lid on the container. Wash your hands. Specific period of time test You collect your urine for a period of time, such as over 4 or 24 hours. When you first get up, you empty your bladder. But don't save this urine. Write down the time you began. For the set period of time, collect all your urine.
Don't get toilet paper, pubic hair, stool feces , menstrual blood, or anything else in the urine sample. Keep the collected urine in the refrigerator for the collection time.
Empty your bladder for the last time at or just before the end of the collection period. Add this urine to the large container. Then write down the time. How It Feels This test usually doesn't cause any pain or discomfort. Risks There are no known risks from having this test.
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