Throat swabs include nasopharyngeal swabs and oropharyngeal swabs.
Generally, those collected from the mouth are called oropharyngeal swabs, and those collected from the nose are called nasopharyngeal swabs.
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Things to look out for when taking an oropharyngeal swab:
1. First, check personal information with the subject before sampling.
2. Check the patient’s name again after sampling.
3. Put it in a sealed bag and a special transfer box, and quickly send the sample to the laboratory for testing.
4. Because collecting throat samples may cause throat discomfort.
Prohibit: take throat swabs after a full meal or after drinking alcohol, and you must pay attention to not drinking, smoking, or chewing gum 30 minutes before sampling betel nut etc.
5. Before sampling, avoid eating irritating and strong-flavoured food and eat lightly.
6. 30 minutes before specimen collection, do not use mouthwash with antiseptic drugs or apply anti-inflammatory drugs to the throat.
7. You should take the initiative to cooperate with doctors to check personal information and inform the medical condition, so as to facilitate cooperation.
8. In order to improve the accuracy of the results, before sampling, wear a mask to cover your mouth, nose and cough, tilt your head slightly and cooperate with the doctor to say “ah~” for collection.
9. You may feel vomiting after collection, but please do not spit anywhere. You bring paper with you, wrap the spit in the paper, and put it in a unified trash can for disinfection. Always do personal disinfection after arriving home, such as washing hands, laundry, etc.
Precautions:
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1. When the flocked swab is put into the tube, it should be placed vertically, and do not wipe the mouth of the bottle to avoid contamination.
When placed in the transfer box, it should be placed vertically to avoid liquid leakage.
2. It is best to send/deliver to the laboratory for inspection on the day of sampling.
3. Appropriate specimens must be consistent with the submission form before submitting for inspection.
The appearance of the sampling tube must be clear and famous with basic information.
Specimens without basic information cannot be tested; the specimens submitted for inspection must be submitted (or electronically submitted in advance) for the screening information form.
Submission form and other materials, the materials submitted should be ensured not to be contaminated, and not to be placed with the specimen.
4. In order to prevent cross-section during sampling, avoided within 2 hours after the patient eats.
5. During the collection process, the throat swab should not touch other parts to ensure the accuracy of the specimens left.
6. When deciding to do a throat swab, please do not use antibacterial drugs.
7. The depth of throat swab collection and the length of mucosal contact time. When collecting throat swabs, if the sampling time is not enough or poor quality swabs are used because the subject’s vomiting reaction is relatively large, it may cause false negatives and cause the patient to delay treatment.