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Flocked Cotton Throat Oral swab 15Cm How to Do Nasal Swabbing Covid Kit
What is a flocked swab?
CellMedical ®In the transport medium, the flocked swab uses vertical nylon fibers to optimize sample collection and elution.
The flocked swab also has a modular breakpoint, which allows you to remove the swab safely and easily, and has multiple breakpoints for different pipes.
How to collect a throat swab specimen?
Because many patients have reported sore throats in omicron COVID cases, this has caused a debate about whether to put a throat swab into the test method.
But the US Food and Drug Administration warns that such recommendations may be possible in some cases.
It will be dangerous.
The federal government’s guidelines for testing for COVID have not changed. All test kits have specific guidance approved by the FDA. However, some medical experts are discussing whether to add throat swabs in addition to nasal swabs to obtain more accurate test results.
The Food and Drug Administration pointed out the safety issues of these recommendations, especially when testing at home.
In a statement to NBC5 on Wednesday, the FDA said: “The FDA recommends that COVID-19 testing should be used in accordance with the authorization, including the instructions for use of the test samples it obtains.
The FDA’s testing guidelines say that the last update was in December, “different tests were performed on different types of samples,” .
But the most common types of samples include nasal or throat swabs and saliva samples.
However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that self-collecting throat swabs have a potential safety issue, “because they are more complicated than nasal swabs, and if used improperly, they may cause harm to the patient.” “Disease control and prevention.”
How to do a Throat Swab
The main step of making a throat swab is to use a medically sterilized flocked swab to detect a small amount of secretions from the pharynx, and then to detect the respiratory virus.
The patient needs to cooperate during the test. Open the mouth, make an ah sound, fully expose the pharynx, and then wipe the secretions on both sides of the pharyngopalatine arch and tonsils with a long swab.
After the collection, the cotton swab is quickly put into the test tube with tape and sealed Submit for inspection afterwards.
It is recommended that before the test, you should eat a light diet and not overeating. Do not eat too spicy food to avoid inflammation of the tonsils.
There may also be certain errors in the test results, which is not conducive to the doctor’s accurate judgment.
How to do a nasal swab
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Sampling process: the sampler holds the head of the person to be sampled with one hand, and inserts the swab into the nostril with the other hand.
Slowly goes deep along the bottom of the lower nasal passage, because the nasal passage is arc-shaped and cannot be overpowered. Severe, so as to avoid traumatic bleeding.
When the top of the swab reaches the back wall of the nasopharynx, gently rotate it for a week (in case of reflex cough, keep it for a while), then slowly take out the swab, discard the tube with 2~3ml virus preservation solution (you can also use etc.
Infiltration of salt solution, tissue culture fluid or phosphate buffer), and then leaching. Tighten the cap of the tube.
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