A break from the norm this morning because I am utterly baffled! Supposed to do a wee sample this morning, after my bloods yesterday. Was given this "kit" (see video) & instructions (need microscope!) I am 58 & I can not read or fathom this. How the hell is... an 80 year old going to cope with it when they have to do a sample for the doctor? Has anyone else been given one of these? & how did you use it? NHS England would love some answers!show more

@ClareCraigPath By the time you’ve Pi*ssed about with it ( pardon the pun) the sample won’t even be sterile 😂😂 I won’t even log on the NHS App so I’ve no chance

@ClareCraigPath Love the pun! 😎 Peeing about is very apt! Going to the surgery for some answers, shortly. I am not expecting much.. 🙄

The only way to do this is to sterilise a glass bowl with very hot water prior to using it to pee in..then suck up the urine from the glass bowl - you could use hydrogen peroxide in the bowl for 5 mins then rinse well .then do the boiling water and just empty bowl

The nurse at the surgery yesterday gave me a plastic cup from the top of the water cooler! 😆 That is how concerned about sterility they are!

I have tried to pee in the other type of plastic container they often forget to give the cups :( I peed on my hand:( its also meant to be mid stream ...!!

It is BONKERS, isn't it! & I was supposed to start my own blood pressure checking this morning. 😬🥺

I'd just pee into a container then syringe some up. Let them sort it out.

I used one of these this morning. Had literally no idea how to make it work but I didn’t have that tube with mine. I just pulled the tube syringe back and then poured some urine in the top and put the lid on. No idea how it’s supposed to work. Overly engineered crap

That reminds me of an Amazon piping nozzle 😳

🤣🤣🤣 Crikey! I will never make a cake again! 😬

Piss into a mayonnaise jar, then let it be THEIR problem. 😂

Piss in a container, suck some of it up with the syringe and put the top on, Chuck away container of piss! What’s wrong with ya

Is that the Bowel Screening kit ? I threw mine in the bin. They chased me repeatedly for the return. Something dodgy going on IMO.

I get a bloody specimen jar. Hard to squat and hold over piss. Need my hand to get pissed on to get some in jar 😡😡😡

Push the plunger back in and then attach the yellow tube inside to top of plunger. Then insert in pee and pull plunger. I guess this will fill yellow tube? Then top goes on? Just guessing.

I had one of those, I threw it and got a normal one from the chemist,no need for all that messing about.

No take the lid off attach the long yellow bit to the end and syringe up the urine take yellow attachment off and put top back on.

That is for a blood sample, surely. You don't need a needle for a wee sample and that bottle is for blood.

😂

pee in a bowl then syphon into tube

What a waste of time and money. They should have just given you a clean plastic bottle with a nice firm lid.

Don’t! I’ve got a prolapse and am waiting for surgery (3 years of waiting 🙄) i got one of these the last time I was tested and was directed to the surgery bathroom. I had to ask for a kidney bowl thing and gloves but like others have mentioned, I’m not sure how ‘pure’ that makes the sample🙈 I’m 41 and it’s a nightmare so God knows how our older kin cope.

You should also have received a small sterile pot? From the NHS - Urine Collection Instruction Sheet PDF:

You need to sterilse a cup or bowl, pee in it and then use it like a syringe, I had it last week as no wee pots are being distributed anymore.

I have not used that type though...so others will need to help you.

Try unscrewing the the top of the yellow. Not the bit you unscrewed if that makes sense x

I've just handed mine in - I put the breadmaker on first before going to the doctor's though - washed my hands obvs

Wee into a large jug. Then, if you are also provided with what I get from the surgery, pour a little into a very small jug with a lip. Then pour from that little jug into the specimen tube. The key item is the little jug. Without that, doom awaits for sure.

Yes my last test kit was like that and just came in a small plastic bag with absolutely no instructions. So peed into a pot and syringed it out of there.

Well whatever you do the results will say “you need to be on statins” especially as they have give you a bp kit for a week (?). It’s what they told me 4 years ago with zero medical history as I had been abroad for 2 decades. I refused their statins as I refuse their annual jabs!

I have used those. The instructions are rubbish! Write on the label. Wee into cup. Take small cap off syringe and replace it with the long spout. Dip that into the cup and draw up urine using handle thing.. Take spout off and replace cap. Snap off plunger stick put sple in bag

That yellow lidded thing screws onto the tube then unscrew the lid of the yellow lidded thing. Then put the tube on the nozzle.... I had the same problem!!!

Fortunately no I just pee into a small cup (provided) and tip it into the little tube and screw the top on. Job done. This is above my pay grade. Pharmacist assistance required methinks...x

With all talk about equality why can’t @NHSuk at least provide suitable urine specimen collection jars for women?? It really is so infuriating - most Women cannot pee into a narrow tube/funnel without it splashing on our hands.

@ClareCraigPath Take a look online at nhs water kit info too much to copy n paste ☺️

Never seen a test kit like that 🤷🏼‍♀️. Your video prompted me to open the bowel cancer screening kit I’ve been sent. I always do it and it looks as I expected. Phew 😉

Pee in to pot, usually first pee in the morning, then use syringe to pull up a sample from pot.

@GingaGill I was given one of these a while ago. Found a YouTube video which showed me how to use it!

Do what we used to do in th’olden days, wee in a jam jar, screw the lid on and take it the surgery, plonk it in the table in front of the doc and say “their you go doc test that” - do take the jam out first obvs. 😂🤷‍♀️ sorry that was no help 🤭

Note to self…get a load of pee pots from Amazon for future use!,