Missing pieces from LFT

[LadyLyndon]

Has anyone else explerienced missing pieces from the Lateral Flow Test kits provided by the school?

This is the second time it’s happened.

At home we now have 3 sticks, 4 result plastic bars, one capsule to put the liquid in - and no liquid ampules.

I’ll ask the school to provide another box but clearly something isn’t right. We have been very careful and no, we haven’t thrown anything away by accident.

I had that the other day! 4 of everything except the capsules. I assumed I’d accidentally thrown them away, which is just as likely tbh. Can’t be helping Dido’s figures...

We have a mix of kits from school and kits from the pharmacy, not sure which this was. They look almost identical, just different shape box.

They seem to put them in the instruction booklet and then you think they are missing

Yep I had one big box with no liquid ampules either

I tipped out everything and checked and checked

One of my boxes was short one part

Is there any alternative to the buffering solution as I seem to have misplaced mine

Just get more?

They're tightly wrapped in the booklet

I’ll ask DD to get more from school. We have had some liquid ampules but not enough, clearly.

Interesting to see that I’m not the only one. The plastic strips have serial numbers on so now I have contributed to an extra 4 missing LFTs.

I thought the same but they were in the folds of the booklet.

The liquid vials are always tucked away hidden inside the instructions. I don’t know if my vials are evaporating or if they just don’t have enough liquid in but I’ve had to do several tests sometimes when there is just no liquid left by the time I go to do the squeezing onto the test kit! It’s just all been sucked up onto the swab!

We were midway through our pack when I realised they were missing so me binning them is most likely scenario.

You can get the kits from loads of pharmacies, they are just the same.

The little fluid ampules of get lost in the information leaflet with ours. I thought there weren't any in 2 boxes until I discovered that

Every time I or someone else has said the liquid ampoules were missing, they have been tightly folded in the instructions booklet.
I had recycled mine immediately (know how to do the tests) and had to retrieve the booklet from the bin, protesting that they definitely weren't in there, but they were.

It's definitely that damn instruction book! What a ridiculous place to put the liquids.

We’ve had half the amount of ampules so it isn’t all or nothing in our case. And we’re also short of the mini plastic test tubes (with the stopper) that you put the liquid into.

Either they've been thrown away or there's a packaging error that's nothing to do with the school.

Just ask for another box.

I’m not blaming the school! All they do is hand out the ore-packaged kits!

Folded up in the instructions leaflet. Everytime.

Just go and get additional kits from a test centre that is handing them out

Glad you're not blaming the school. Your opening post was written almost like there was a conspiracy otherwise why mention they'd come from a school?

I had some missing bits from some of my boxes. I didn't give it a second thought.

Many apologies for the clumsy writing. The schools are given big boxes of the packs and then hand them out to the students. That’s it. If there’s any conspiracy to be had it’s by the packers and government providers.

Conspiracy is your word, however.

@Howshouldibehave

The liquid vials are always tucked away hidden inside the instructions. I don’t know if my vials are evaporating or if they just don’t have enough liquid in but I’ve had to do several tests sometimes when there is just no liquid left by the time I go to do the squeezing onto the test kit! It’s just all been sucked up onto the swab!

You are supposed to squeeze the vial as you pull the swab back out so that you are squeezing the liquid on the swab against the inside of the vial.