Hello
No not that I know of.
Ask to be able to give a sample with the nurse.
You must be contaminating the container when you give the sample.
The container they give you is sterile and the inside of the container and the inside of the lid, should not be touched by anything at all, nothing.
Ask to give a sample with the nurse present so she can watch you do it and coach you in how to use the container.
I do not believe the lab is what is causing the contamination.
You are contaminating the container yourself.
Lill
The nurses in my area require me to do it in the morning at home. I am so frustrated. I done it many times and failed. Thereis no way I can do it in the lab according to the lab.
So do you not accept that your lungs are clear? If this is the case you need to go get a 2nd opinion wotj another medical professional.
If you think you have a lung infection:-
- repeat sputum test (if you can provide a sample)
- ask the doc to listen to your lungs (infections in the lung can be heard through a stethescope)
People with a lung infection don't need a CT scan or MRI scan to confirm it.
Yeah, the lab keeps saying my ssample are contamination, so I might require a bronchoscope to see the inside of the airways and lung. Bronchoscocopy could work?
You don't need an MRI to diagnose a lung infection and you've had x-rays which say your lungs are clear. I don't understand what this contamination of your sputum samples is about: sorry, but it just doesn't make any sense to me.
I would think the x-rays were not to check for infection, because there are much easier & quicker ways to do that (ie an ordinary gp or practice nurse with an old fashioned stethoscope), but to check for anything else which could be causing the problems you are having.
Maybe you need to accept what you're being told: that you have no lung infection. There must be a way of providing an uncontaminated sputum sample: if you're being told all previous samples were contaminated you need to ask how, with what, and by whom ....
Contamination told by nurse many times with spit. I am still coughing for months and muscle pains, chest pain. If bronchoscope can do it I will.
So you can't have spit in a sputum sample???? I've never heard of that before.
That sounds worth a try given that you have no definite answers from anything else that's been tried
Yeah I know. I will give bronscoy a try.