Calling all veterens of the 24 hour urine collection. Help!

[artichokes]

So they sent me home with the collection pot and a jug to wee in and pour into the big pot.

My question is whether I can wash the jug in between wees? It seems to gross not to so I rinsed it after the last pee. But then it was not dry in time for the next pee and I was worried the droplets of water would contaminate the result. So then I dried it with a towel but now I think that might contaminate the result.

What do you think? Must I leave an unclean jug with pee remains next to my loo all night and day?

Just rinse it and leave it!

A few drops of water wont make any difference to the overall result!

Are you sure Mintpurple? Please tell me you are .
Hospitals seem so anal about all this stuff.
When DD had a suspected urine infection they would not take the sample from a potty, however clean, because it was not a totally sterile envionment. I had to get her to go in a proper sample pot which was nigh on impossible.
Aggghhhhh - I hate these collections. I am sure I will spill the jug in one of my many half-asleep toilet trips tonight.

Positive artichokes!

When we do them for women on the ward, they pee in the jug - into the bottle - rinse the jug - back to bed.

If you were to be really pedantic about it, how about the little bit of wee left in the jug when you tip it in the bottle?

Trust me on this one, it will be fine!

It is different from the sample for infection, as contaminants in the 'potty' will grow when cultured in a lab and give you a false result, but the protein is not cultured, just measured.

Glad they let you home rather than keeping you in (from your other thread)

Thank you sooooo much.
A clean jug will make it just a little more bearable.

Backing up mintpurple. I did loads of these, most of them in hospital, and always washed the jug out. Like mintpurple said, the samples don't get cultured so it doesn't matter if it's not completely sterile.

In fact is far less likely to be sterile if you leave a few drops of wee in it!