In the first year of life, a child should be regularly examined by a pediatrician, undergo specialists and tested. And if difficulties usually do not arise with a blood test, since you just need to bring the child to the clinic in the morning and then calm down, then before collecting urine from an infant, parents are often lost. Let's figure out how to collect urine for analysis from a nursing baby, in particular, from a boy.
Using a urine bag
This collection method is preferable because it allows you to easily collect urine for analysis.
Pros:
- This plastic bag makes it much easier to collect urine.
- It is inexpensive and available in all pharmacies.
- Thanks to the adhesive base, it adheres well to the child's body.
- The velcro is hypoallergenic and does not irritate the baby's skin.
Minuses:
- A urine bag must be purchased at the pharmacy, and sometimes the mother does not have such an opportunity.
- If the bag is not properly attached, the urine will not get inside and will have to be collected again.
Lay the washed and dry wiped baby on the back. While spreading the legs of the baby, talk to the baby and comment on your own actions until the baby completely calms down. Next, carefully attach the drainage bag so that the penis is inside.
Wait patiently until your baby urinates. To prevent the bag from peeling off and the child not to worry, take the baby in your arms. The bag filled with urine must be carefully removed, then the contents are poured into a sterile container and taken for analysis.
With the help of available tools
Many parents use the old-fashioned way to collect the tools at hand - banks and bags.
To the bank
This method of collecting urine from a boy is one of the most common.
Pros:
- The peculiarities of urination in boys allow you to accurately collect the middle part of urine in a jar, you just need to "catch" the stream.
- This is an affordable and very simple way.
Minuses:
- If the jar is not sterile, the test results will be incorrect and the test will have to be retaken.
- Parents' clothing and the things that surround the baby are at risk of being damaged by splashing urine.
Lay the undressed baby on a diaper, not forgetting to put an oilcloth under it. Take the jar in your hands and wait. As soon as the baby starts urinating, let the first drops fall onto the diaper, then substitute the jar and collect the required amount of urine. Close the container and wrap it in a plastic bag (this will save your own bag from possible leakage).
In package
Pros:
- The method will help out when there is no urine bag or other container.
- The advantage of the method is its general availability, as there are plastic bags almost everywhere.
Minuses:
- The bag may not be sterile and the results may not be reliable.
- The handles of the bag can come loose, and if the bag slides to the side, the mother and everyone around the baby can end up in the urine.
The handles of the bag are cut so that it becomes possible to tie them around the baby's legs. After securing the bag on the child, you need to wait for urination. In this case, the child must be in an upright position. Next, the urine is carefully poured into a sterile container.
If the baby is small, you can put a plastic bag under the baby on an oilcloth.
Tips
- You should not let your child urinate on the diaper and then try to twist it into a jar.
- It is not recommended to keep urine at room temperature for more than 2 hours, as this will make the analysis unreliable.
- The baby must be washed before collecting urine, and parents need to wash their hands using baby soap.
- The container into which urine is collected must be sterile.
- For analysis, it is best to collect the first urine that the boy excreted in the morning.
- If you wait a long time, and the baby still does not urinate, you can resort to small tricks, for example, pouring water from one glass to another next to the baby, lower the baby's handle into a plate of warm water, stroke the baby below the navel, give the baby a drink, or wet it a little a diaper on which the baby lies.
