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What is a Dipstick or Test Strip Urinalysis?

What is a Dipstick or Test Strip Urinalysis?

A urinalysis is a urine test best performed on a full bladder first thing in the morning. An urinalysis checks appearance, concentration, and content of urine and is used to detect and manage a wide range of medical disorders, such as urinary tract infections (UTI's), kidney disease and diabetes. A dipstick, usually a thin, plastic stick with strips of chemicals on it, is coated with urine, the chemical strips will change color if certain substances are present or if certain levels are above, or below, normal which can indicate the presence of compounds like proteins, ketones, hemoglobin, and nitrites, as well as harmful pathogens. Dipstick urinalysis is convenient, but false-positive and false-negative results can occur.

No preparation apart from cleansing the area around the urethra (urinary opening) is required for the automated dipstick urinalysis.

14 Parameter Urine Urinalysis Test Strip

IMPORTANT NOTE: The test strips are available without a prescription at your local pharmacy or online stores such as Amazon on the Internet, however, home use urine test strips are NOT intended for self-diagnosis purposes, and should be used in consultation with your doctor. It is always preferable to consult a medical practitioner if you have any health concerns. A GP will conduct an appropriate assessment and will be able to discuss any concerns that you have and advise which further examinations, investigations or further assessments, if any, are appropriate. The U.K. NHS featured a warning article about self-test health kits, which reported they could do more harm than good. Home test kits, designed to detect ailments from high cholesterol to cancer, can often be misleading, offer false reassurance or trigger false alarms, and they can use language that is often confusing.

Two pee test strips, or dipsticks, showing the colored test pad areas, resting on the lid of an open urine test strip container.
Two pee test strips, or dipsticks, showing the colored test pad areas, resting on the lid of an open urine test strip container.
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An Easier Way to Perform a Home Urine Test with Test Strips

Usually the instructions supplied with the urinalysis test strip product will suggest dipping the entire dipstick into the urine sample for 1 or 2 seconds and then comparing the results. However, because different pee tests require different times in which to compare the dipstick color to the corresponding color on the chart, you will find it much easier to use an eyedropper. Simply place a single drop of your urine sample onto a single dipstick chemical pad and wait for the required time to compare the sample against the chart. Then proceed to the next test on the strip, and so on. Just be sure the eyedropper, and any urine collection container used, is sterile.

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