Can I drink water during a urine routine test

A routine urine test is a way to find out whether you have a urinary tract infection. You can drink water before the test, and a routine urine test is one of the most common tests. It can better understand and reflect your physical health status. Especially for pregnant women, a routine urine test is an indispensable item during prenatal check-ups. Everyone should also pay attention to the various precautions during the test.

1. You can drink water during a routine urine test. A routine urine test is one of the most commonly used tests in hospitals and is one of the basic indicators that reflect your physical health. Urinalysis is one of the items in prenatal examination for pregnant women.

2. Precautions for routine urine examination

1. The urine specimen must be fresh. After the urine is left for a few hours, the white blood cells will be destroyed and the pyuria will disappear, glucose will be decomposed by bacteria, the casts will be destroyed, and the cells will be lysed, which will affect the accuracy of the test results.

2. The urine specimen must be clean. Women should avoid menstruation and clean the vulva to avoid mixing in leucorrhea and blood; male patients should avoid mixing in prostatic fluid, etc. According to the order of urination, urine can be divided into the front section, middle section and back section. Because the first and second stream urine are easily contaminated, midstream urine is generally collected when doing urine routine and urine bacteriological examinations. Urine should be collected in a clean container, such as a clean urine cup provided by the hospital. If the urine is contaminated by leucorrhea, etc., a clean urine sample must be collected for re-examination.

3. The amount of urine sent for examination: generally not less than 10 ml (at least half the volume of the urine cup).

4. In patients with urinary tract infection, pyuria is often intermittent, so repeated examinations are necessary before a conclusion can be drawn.

5. The use of antibiotics may affect the accuracy of the examination.

6. Urinalysis for pregnant women is a routine physical examination item that should be conducted from the confirmation of pregnancy until delivery. That is, every pregnant woman should undergo about 9-13 urine routine tests during pregnancy. However, in the daily work of the laboratory, we often encounter many expectant mothers who do not know how to correctly collect urine samples for examination. When doing a routine urine test, the urine sample must be collected correctly and in a standardized manner to ensure the accuracy of the urine test results.