NHS bowel cancer screening

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My first time doing a poo sample! Online it says a walnut size piece of poo but the container is absolutely tiny. It says just wipe the poo on the little stick and then put the stick inside the liquid. Has anyone done one recently? The amount of poo on it would be much much smaller than a walnut. Sorry for the TMI post.

Tiny amount needed now. It used to be a bit more so maybe the online info is out of date, or American.

Did one earlier this year, you only need a tiny sample.

Our latest ones were literally a scraping of poo , have not been given the pot type for years .

You just scrape the wand against the sample until the bristles are full. They only need a tiny amount to test.

Yes I did a little scraping to cover the bristles. I had a diagram with mine and it didn’t want too much!