The new lateral flow kits

[Donatella]

The kind in the green and white box, where you stand the swab in the liquid for a minute then only wait 15 for a result. Does anyone else have problems getting the drops of liquid out of the tube? So far I've wasted 2 out of the 4 I've tried to do because the drops won't come out, I end up squeezing the tube so hard the top flies off. It's happened 3 times total but the third the liquid landed on the test anyway so I gave up and am using that attempt despite it probably being more than the 4 drops I am supposed to use 🤷‍♀️ Is there some knack to it I am missing?

Did you peel the silver plastic lid off?

I suppose you must’ve done to put the liquid in. Sorry. How strange

Squeeze the tube as you pull the swab out. Maybe it’s all still in the swab?

Used them quite often, no problem. I do squeeze the vial when removing the swab, to squeeze liquid from it, as one was told to do with the other sort - perhaps this helps maximise the available fluid ?

Don't take this the wrong way, but I found that by meticulously following the instructions I had no problem.

I do squeeze the swab as I bring it out, and there is loads of liquid in the tube when I start trying to get it out. One of the tubes I used worked perfectly so maybe I just have a dodgy batch.

I had a batch of old ones with no liquid in the liquid tubes!

Have you tried just tipping the tube with no top on instead of squeezing it out?

Could do, but there seems to be some kind of filter on the caps which I assume has a purpose so not sure if doing that would affect the results.

I had exactly this problem with one, but all others have been fine. I suspect a defect in the filter/cap that stops the liquid from getting through. Fairly sure it wasn’t operator error. Should have yellow carded it and will if it happens again.

I got a newer packet today, a blue box with a colourful covid virus 🦠 design. Hope it’s the same s I can’t keep learning new LFT procedures.