After receiving your order through our website or by phone, we ship you a package containing the foillowing items:
1) One 30 ml urine sample collection bottle with boric acid tablet in it. (Customers outside USA are sent only boric acid tablet. They can buy one hard walled bottles from pharmacy and add the tablet to it.)
2) A ziplock bag
3) A small bubble wrap envelop
4) A prepaid, UPS or FEDEX ready-to-ship laboratory pack.
You will need following items from home
5) A disposable paper or plastic cup
6) A disposable plastic spoon
7) A piece of aluminum foil
Urine samples are collected during and after a period of sleep. We need a total of six teaspoonfuls of sample for two resting periods i.e. three spoonfuls per resting period. Every time after collecting the sample, the bottle should be capped and wrapped in foil, secured in the ziploc bag, and placed in the freezer.
Please keep above mentioned items ready in the bathroom. Pass the urine before going to bed. Do not collect this sample.
If you wake up in the middle of the night, around say 3am, collect midstream urine in the disposable cup, and add one spoonful to the collection bottle. In the morning, say 7am, you will again collect midstream urine in the disposable cup, and transfer two spoonsfuls to the same collection bottle. If you wake up straight in the morning, collect midstream urine in the disposable cup, and transfer three spoonfuls to the sample collection bottle. If you wake up frequently during resting period, you may collect one spoonful every time. Please do not miss any sample.
Tightly cap the tube, wrap it with aluminum foil and then in the ziploc bag, and keep in freezer. Wash and save the disposables for use on the next resting period. If you feel thirsty in the middle of the night,, you may have water (no soft drink please).
Repeat sample collection same way for the next night.
If you work during night, you can collect during daytime. Since the resting period in these cases is usually small, it is advised to collect two teaspoonfuls per resting period for three days. If you forget to collect on one day, you can do it on some other day as long as the previous sample is in freezer. The timings are approximate and you can change the shipping day to suit your schedule. &nb sp;
NOTE: If you are regularly taking some medicines, you may continue them. The medicine for the day should preferably be taken after collecting the sample.