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We offer our clients a wide range of laboratory tests, prompt delivery of analysis results (E-mail), as well as getting the results online (ANALYZE IT). This ensures an individual approach to each client. «PROM-TEST» also offers home call services. There is online registration opportunity from the web-site. You are welcome to register and our operator will contact you.

    General rules to be prepared for the test:

  • It’s advisable to comply with these rules in case of conducting biochemical, hormonal, hematological analyses, as well as complex immunological tests. The results depend on the patient’s physiological state.
  • If possible, it is recommended to do blood test in the morning, from 8 to 11 hours, on an empty stomach (at least 8 hours and no more than 14 hours of fasting, water can be drunk, as usual), avoid food overloads the day before.
  • If you are taking any medications, you should consult your doctor about the advisability of conducting a study on the background of taking the drugs or the possibility of canceling the drug before the study, the duration of the withdrawal is determined by the period of removal of the medicine from the bloodstream.
  • It is undesirable to do blood test in the short after physiotherapeutic procedures, instrumental examination and other medical procedures. After some medical procedures (for example, a prostate biopsy before PSA testing), laboratory examination should be postponed for several days.
  • Special dietary requirements: do not eat anything for 12-14 hours before lipid profiling (cholesterol, ….); the glucose tolerance test is performed in the morning after at least 12 but no more than 16 hours of fasting. Instrumental examinations can cause temporary changes in certain laboratory parameters of the body. In the case of a female patient, the stage of the menstrual cycle is significant for a number of hormonal tests. The optimal days for blood samplingto determine levels of FSH, LH, prolactic, progesterone, estradiol and 17-OH-progesterone should be checked with the doctor.

    Time of day for blood sampling:  there are daily patterns of activity as in the case of cortisol, for example.

    On the eve of the test, it is not recommended to consume vegetables and fruits that can change the color of urine (beets, carrots), also to take some drugs and nutritional supplements (diuretics, vitamin complexes) which may influence the test results. Women are not recommended to take urine sample during menstruation. For analysis, it is preferable to use an average portion of morning urine, because the urine is more concentrated and abnormal results may be more obvious at that time (unless your doctor recommends otherwise). The urine sample collection is allowed during the day, with condition, that more than four hours pass from previous urination.

    How to submit urine sample for the testing:

    • To carry out hygiene procedures of the genitalia; (for women it is especially important to close the entrance to the vagina with a sterile swab)
    • First morning urination – a small amount of urine (first 1-2 seconds) is released into the toilet bowl, without interrupting urination, substitute a sterile urine collecting container and collect 50 ml in to it.
    • To close the container with a screw cap hermetically.
    • It is necessary to deliver the container with urine to the laboratory within 2 hours. Urine samples cannot be frozen.

    There is also an alternative way to pass a general urine test using special transport test tubes. This method allows you to collect material early in the morning and deliver it to the laboratory at a convenient time for the patient within 72 hours. A set with a test tube, urine transfer device and instructions for use can be purchased in any branch of our laboratory.

    The examination is carried out before taking antimicrobials and immunomodulatory or 12-14 days after the end of the medication. It is highly recomended to use the average portion of the first morning urine, in which, after a long break between urination, the largest number of bacteria is concentrated. Urine collection is allowed during the day, with condition, that more than four hours pass from previous urination.

    How to submit urine sample for microbiological test:

    • To carry out hygiene procedures of the genitalia; (for women it is especially important to close the entrance to the vagina with a sterile swab)
    • First morning urination – a small amount of urine (first 1-2 seconds) is released into the toilet bowl, without interrupting urination, substitute a sterile urine collecting container and collect 50 ml in to it.
    • To close the container with a screw cap hermetically.
    • It is necessary to deliver the container with urine to the laboratory within 2 hours. Urine samples cannot be frozen

    To exclude the use of diuretics, as well as to avoid emotional stress, physical exertion (sports training), and alcohol the day before the examination and on the day, the test is taken.
    To collect urine during 24-hours period.
    To collect urine in a dry clean container with a capacity of 2-3 liters.( The relevant big containers to store urine and a container to urinate into will be given to you).
    To collect urine in the morning just after waking up. The morning portion of urine is disposed of. Note the exact time (eg, 8 :00 AM).Since that time,to start the urine collection. Subsequent urine produced for next 24 hours including the next morning’s first voided specimen, to collect in the container. Last urination should be collected after 24 hours starting from the noticed time.
    During the entire time of collection , the container should be stored in the refrigerator at a temperature of + 2 … + 8 ° С or in a cooler on ice.
    Once daily urine is collected, the total volume should be fixed on the container. A representative sample (30-50 ml) by sterill tube should be submitted to the laboratory for analysis.
    Attention! There is no necessity to bring the whole urine into laboratory.

    For the testing, the sample should be collected in a sterile container in the laboratory, in order to limit the exposure of the semen to fluctuations in temperature and to control the time between collection and analysis . It can be also delivered to the laboratory while maintaining transportation conditions (the sample should be delivered to the laboratory within 1 hour after collection and it should be kept between 20 °C and 37 °C during transportation.) It is necessary to collect all the ejaculation to obtain the research correct results.
    It is forbidden to use a condom for ejaculate collection as it contains spermicidal agents, which will alter the results of the analysis.
    The sample should be collected after minimum 2 days and maximum 7 day of sexual abstinence. During this period:

    • It’s not allowed to drink alcohol and take medications (exception: no need to cancel the vital medicines prescribed by a doctor for continuous use).
    • It’s necessary to exclude the effect of increased temperature (visiting a bath / sauna, industrial hyperthermia, fever) and to avoid exposure to UHF.
    • It’s required proper nutrition.
    • It’s recommended to exclude severe physical and psychological stress on the day prior the examination day.

    For second analysis, it is preferable to set the same abstinence periods to reduce fluctuations in the results.

    For the testing, the sample should be collected in a sterile container in the laboratory, in order to limit the exposure of the semen to fluctuations in temperature and to control the time between collection and analysis . It can be also delivered to the laboratory while maintaining transportation conditions (the sample should be delivered to the laboratory within 1 hour after collection and it should be kept between 20 °C and 37 °C during transportation.) It is necessary to collect all the ejaculation to obtain the research correct results.
    To urinate prior to semen collection. After urination to wash the hands and penis with soap in order to reduce the risk of contamination of the specimen with commensal organisms from the skin. To dry hands and penis with a fresh disposable towel.
    To prepare the container, open the container lid so that it can be removed with one hand. Do not touch the inner walls of the container and lid with your hands.
    The sample should be obtained by masturbation and ejaculated into a sterile container.
    Make sure that the lid on the container is well closed (to prevent material from leaking out).

    The patients, to be examined, should be on diet 1-3 days before the sampling. The intake of foods that enhance intestinal fermentation and lactic acid products, as well as alcohol, antibiotics and bacterial preparations (containing bifidobacterium, lactobacilli, Escherichia coli, etc. .) should be excluded.

    • The specimen is feces after natural defecation, which is collected in a clean disposable container with a screw cap and a spoon.
    • It is not recommended to collect feces from the toilet.
    • To collect feces on a clean surface, which can be used as a clean new sheet (bag) of polyethylene or paper (this method is preferred).
    • In case of using the vessel, it should be pre-washed well with soap and a sponge, rinsed repeatedly with tap water, then poured with boiling water and cooled.
    • Feces are to be taken mainly from the middle portion with a special spoon, mounted in the lid of a sterile container, in an amount of not more than 1/3 of the volume of the container. Do not fill the container to the top. Close the cover carefully.

    Sample collected for fecal microbiota examination must be delivered to the laboratory within 1 hour !!!
    Terms and conditions for storage of material ( feces ) related to other tests, please verify in the laboratory, before examination

    The women’s examination is to be carried out in the first half of the menstrual cycle, starting from the 3-4th day after the completion of menses. Valid examination in the second half of the cycle, should be done no later than 5 days before the expected start of menstruation. If there are severe symptoms of inflammation , specimen is to be taken the day, when the patient applies for . On the eve and on the day of the examination, the patient is not recommended to perform vaginal douching. It is not recommended to take sample against the background of antibiotic therapy (general / local) and during menses, earlier 24-48 hours after sexual contact, intravaginal ultrasound and colposcopy. It is recommended to take the material not earlier than 14 days after the use of antibacterial drugs and local antiseptics, and not earlier than 1 month after the use of antibiotics orally. If a urethral scraping is taken for the study (for men and women), the collection of material is carried out before or not earlier than 3 hours after urination.
    For men, when passing the test “Androflor” and “Androflor screen”, sexual abstinence at least for 3 days is also necessary.

    During a routine examination, it is undesirable to take a smear earlier than the 5th day from the beginning of the menstrual cycle and later than 5 days before the expected start of menstruation; not earlier than 48 hours after sexual intercourse, during the use of vaginal medicines, spermicides, lubricants, as well as in the presence of genital infection, during menses and after douching.

    Material should not be taken with an inflamed epiglottis, as airway obstruction may occur.

    A smear is taken on an empty stomach (after morning awakening, without water and coffee)!

    The material is taken on an empty stomach.

    Please note that you do not need to rinse your mouth before manipulation.

    Before taking smears, do not rinse the nasal passages.
    The sample is the morning sputum released during a coughing fit.

    Before coughing, it is necessary to brush your teeth and rinse your mouth with boiled water, or with a weak solution of drinking soda, in order to mechanically remove food debris, desquamated epithelium and microflora of the oral cavity. Make sure that saliva and nasopharyngeal mucus do not get into the container (especially with a runny nose!).

    Sputum released is collected in a sterile container.

    The lid is closed hermetically so that the material does not leak.

    If sputum does not separate well, expectorants are given to the patient the day before.