To ensure the integrity of your samples and to ensure getting accurate test results, please abide by the following precautions and instructions for sample collection:

• Fasting sugar: 
  • Fasting is required from 6-8 hours (drinking water is allowed).   

• Sugar two hours after eating: 
  • * The two hours are counted from the start of eating.
  • * It is required to finish eating within 10 minutes at most. If the patient is taking diabetes medication, the treatment is taken.
  • * Please arrive to the laboratory 15 minutes before the time for the analysis

• Lipid analysis:
  • Fasting is required from 10-12 hours (drinking water is allowed)

• Urine culture:
  • * Washing the hands and genitalia with soap and water
  • * Use disinfectant (Dettol), then wash again with water to remove the excess disinfectant
  • * Empty the first drops of urine into the toilet and put the rest in the sterile container provided by the laboratory
  • * It must arrive at the laboratory within two hours at most, in case the sample is sent from home
  • * Not taking antibiotics for 48 hours
  • * Urine analysis 3 consecutive days:
  • * The first sample in the morning

• Sputum 3 consecutive days:
  • The first sputum sample in the morning after gargling with water
  • Samples are brought daily for 3 consecutive days

• Semen analysis:
  • * It is required to abstain from sexual intercourse for 4 consecutive days
  • * It is preferable to give the sample in the laboratory, taking care to place all the sample, including the first points of sperm, in the container for that
  • * The sample should be brought to the laboratory within 20 minutes if the sample was brought from home

• VMA :
  • Collecting 24-hour urine
  • Stop drinking tea, coffee, biscuits, vanilla, bananas, pineapples, tomatoes, and eggplant.

• Drug Level analysis:
  • * Take the medication for 5 days regularly.
  • * It is required not to vomit or diarrhea for 48 hours before the analysis.
  • * A sample is taken before the morning dose to calculate the percentage of the drug in the lowest (low) level.
  • * Another sample is taken after taking the drug 4 hours later to calculate the highest percentage of the drug in the blood (peak)
  • * Prostate (period Booking is a must):
  • * It is required to abstain from sexual intercourse for 4 days before the analysis.
  • * Withholding urine for an hour before the test, in order to take a urine sample before prostate massage and another urine sample after prostate massage
  • * It is preferable to abstain from antibiotics for 24 hours before taking the sample.