Home Test For Urinary Tract Infections: What Affects The Test


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What Affects the Test


There may be reasons you are not able to have this test or reasons why the results may not be helpful. One of the main reasons results may not be helpful is that the urine tested was not in your bladder for at least 4 hours before collecting the test sample.



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Last updated: July 08, 2008
Author: Monica Rhodes
Reviewed By: E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Avery L. Seifert, MD - Urology
Editors: Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Tracy Landauer

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