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Take your pee home with you, please

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OhBuggerandArse · 19/04/2010 15:44

Have just had a midwife's appointment and she asked me to take my sample home with me to throw away as they're not allowed to do it themselves any more (because of Health and Safety? or something - I was too amazed to listen properly so I'm not quite sure what the reasoning was).

Has this happened to anyone else? Doesn''t it seem a bit mad? Won't everybody just drop their little bottles into the nearest public bin on the way out of the doctors, which you would think would be even more of a risk than keeping them all in the hazardous waste bin?

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moominmarvellous · 20/04/2010 19:14

After reading this post yesterday, I was asked to take my pee pot home from my booking in appt today...........after reading this post this evening, I've remembered it's still in my bag!! I'll just go and sort that out......

GoodDaysBadDays · 20/04/2010 19:49

With my last midwife last summer I had this, we were allowed to use the loos in the clinic to pour it away and then bin the bottle but mw wasn't allowed to dispose of it anymore this wasn't the case with previous pregnancies.

I guess it's another money-saving excercise.

stickylittlefingers · 20/04/2010 22:16

put it on the compost heap - great to get the compost going

I would suggest that surgeries have a compost heap outside the door, so that there's a place for people to throw their wee away, and they could sell the proceeds as well. Double money saver. Marvellous...

nappyaddict · 20/04/2010 23:05

Used to poor it down the toilet in the GP and then take it home to reuse.

mamamaisie · 21/04/2010 02:11

In my area the midwives will not even touch the bottle. They always ask me to take off the top, they dip the stick in, then I put the top back on and take it home to reuse. I have never had a problem with this. The way I look at it is that rinsing out the pot is nowhere near as bad as dealing with my 2 year old's poopy nappies!

Bozzle · 21/04/2010 08:28

Saves on gloves and pots!
Good idea. I once said to GP - why do the wee pots have to be so small? He said -well pee into water cup from the water fountain....so I did and it is much easier. Told my new midwife about when she had run out of pots and she agreed it was a good idea.

He also said that if you use a wee pot to take it home and put it in the dishwasher!

stuffedmk · 21/04/2010 09:23

Mine told me to pour it down the loo there but take the pot home to throw away

nunnie · 21/04/2010 09:28

With the community midwife I forgot and was just asked to poas. With the hospital midwife I hand it over and never see it again.
Think in my last pregnancy I took it home to dipose of then reused pot after rinsing with boiling water. Haven't even been given a pot this time of community midwife, I think she prefer the poas method.

BranflakeGirl · 21/04/2010 09:29

My MW tips mine down the sink then rinses the bottle and gives it back to me! I'm like, "Excuse me but given how hard it is to get the pee to go INSIDE the bottle I don't want that back to put in my bag now, thank you!" (We really need a vom smiley here!)

SolidGoldBrass · 21/04/2010 09:53

WHy not just tip it down the loo in the clinic before leaving?

missedith01 · 21/04/2010 09:55

I don't mind reusing the pot I just wish they'd get me to reuse a pot I had a chance of getting some piss into. I mean, when my partner, with his handy directable tool, ad to give a sample he was asked to aim into a pot two inches in diameter. Where's my 2" pot, huh? I need it more than he does!

nappyaddict · 21/04/2010 10:06

I used to wee in a plastic cup, one of those foil containers or a jug and then pour it into the tiny pot. It's much easier than trying to aim.

alle01 · 21/04/2010 10:20

my mw just gives me the stick to pee on it, and it's thrown away on the spot, don't need a pot, certainly not a new pot every time, it's a waste of resources, plastic takes for ever to decompost in a landfill, in my local hospital they use cardboard pots, they take them away so i am not sure how they dispose of them,... anyway, wee is so sterile when comes out that you could drink it without any harm, it is when gets mixed with poo, or after a while that develops bacteria and becomes harmful

lilmissmummy · 21/04/2010 10:21

I have little plastic tube/pots and they have white crystals in the bottom so I get a new pot every time. MW pours my wee down the sink and gives me a new pot.

Also mw gives me red lidded ones and doctor gives me white how odd.

I am sure they were bigger last time I had a baby though!

Glitterknickaz · 21/04/2010 10:29

I used to reuse the pots as much as possible but the lids used to rust after a couple of uses and I'd have to get a new one as the rust contaminated the sample....
(please note I have renal issues exacerbated by pregnancy - caustic piss!)
Even more fun were the 24 hour collections when I had to hoik 5 litre bottles and a jug around with me wherever I went once a week for the last 6 weeks...

nappyaddict · 21/04/2010 10:32

Aren't the lids plastic ... how could they rust?

pigleychez · 21/04/2010 10:33

My MW pours it down the sink, gives the pot a
rinse and dries with a paper towel before handing the pot back.
Fine by me... Just when its at the antenatal clinic or something and they throw the pot away and dont give you a new one!- Trying to find something suitable at home to Pee in can be quite a mission.

Glitterknickaz · 21/04/2010 10:36

the ones here are metal, nappyaddict... or they were 2 years ago anyway the one on the left

Mummy1868 · 21/04/2010 10:38

if there was a problem and they had to send the sample off for further testing, then they would need a new sample as and old reused bottle would be contaminated and give a false microbiology result.
If it's just a simple glucose and protein dip test this may also be false if not cleaned properly.
I get a new one each time, but this maybe because she knows I am a nurse.

wishingchair · 21/04/2010 10:43

I just used to wee in a plastic jug then put some in the pot. Would then rinse out the jug and put it in the dishwasher. It's only wee for goodness sake!

bluebell09 · 21/04/2010 10:48

yes it happened to me i was appalled i never had that with my first one. Dont quite understand it its bad enough having to take one with you but to take it back with you ewww not nice!!

Concordia · 21/04/2010 10:56

i was given the same pee container to last all pregnancy and then at 34 weeks she said, well there's protein in your urine so you may have preeclampsia but then maybe the pots just dirty because you've used it all pregnancy

Concordia · 21/04/2010 10:57

i did rinse it out occasionally.
and i did have pe.

nunnie · 21/04/2010 11:30

My hospital gives out ones with metal lids too but don't get them back, you just grab a new one out of the box in reception on the way out.

Like I say community midwife didn't give me one at all.

rosieposey · 21/04/2010 11:47

I had antenatal appts at the hospital and at GWH they make you pee in a plastic cup and write your name on the side then they come into the loo and do a quick dip test of anyones who is in there.

I suspect the disposable drinks cups are alot cheaper than the sample pots so everyones a winner. I think they must have disposed of the samples though because i never did - this was only 15 months ago and there was nothing health and safety wise whereby they asked you to handle your own wee! As midwives surely they come across alot worse than that when you are delivering?

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