Urine Test: How To Prepare
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How To Prepare
Do not eat foods that can color the urine, such as blackberries, beets, and rhubarb, before the test. Do not exercise strenuously before the test.
Tell your health professional if you are menstruating or close to starting your menstrual period. Your health professional may want to wait to do the test.
Your health professional may ask you to stop taking certain medicines that color the urine. These include vitamin B, phenazopyridine (Pyridium), rifampin, and phenytoin (Dilantin). Be sure to tell your health professional if you are taking diuretics, which may affect the test results.
Talk to your health professional about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?) .
| Last updated: | September 18, 2008 |
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| Author: | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Reviewed By: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Avery L. Seifert, MD - Urology |
| Editors: | Maria Essig, Tracy Landauer |
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