How to collect urine from a baby boy?

In the first year of life, the child should be regularly examined by a pediatrician, undergo specialist treatment and pass tests. And if with a blood test usually does not arise, since you only need to bring the child to the clinic in the morning and then calm it down, then parents often get lost before collecting urine from the infant baby. Let's see how to collect urine for analysis in an infant, in particular, in a boy.

This method of collection is more preferable because it allows you to easily obtain urine for analysis.

Pros:

• Such a plastic bag greatly facilitates the collection of urine.
• It is inexpensive and available in all pharmacies.
• Thanks to the adhesive base, it is well fixed on the body of the child.
• Velcro is hypoallergenic and does not irritate baby’s skin.

Minuses:

• The urinal must be purchased at a pharmacy, and sometimes mom does not have this opportunity.
• If you attach the bag badly, the urine will not get inside and you will have to re-assemble it.

Lay the washed-up and dry baby on the back. Pushing the baby's legs apart, talk to the baby and comment on your own actions until the baby is completely calm. Next, carefully attach the urinal so that the sexual organ was inside.

Wait patiently until the baby urinates. So that the bag does not come off, and the child is not worried, take the baby in your hands. A bag filled with urine should be carefully removed, after which the contents should be poured into a sterile container and taken for analysis.

Many parents use the old-fashioned way to collect available means - banks and packages.

This method of collecting urine from a boy is one of the most common.

Pros:

• Peculiarities of urination in boys allow you to accurately collect the middle part of urine in a jar, you just need to “catch” the jet.
• This is an affordable and very simple way.

Minuses:

• If the jar is non-sterile, the results of the analysis will be incorrect and the analysis will have to be retaken.
• The clothes of the parents and the things that surround the child are at risk of being sprayed with urine.

Lay the naked baby on the diaper, not forgetting to put an oilcloth under it. Take a jar in hand and wait. As soon as the baby begins to urinate, let the first drops fall on the diaper, then substitute the jar and collect the necessary amount of urine. Close the container and wrap it in a plastic bag (this way you will save your own bag from possible leakage).

Pros:

• The method will help out when there is no urinal and other packaging.
• The advantage of the method is its general availability, because plastic bags are almost everywhere.

Minuses:

• The package may not be sterile, so the results may be unreliable.
• The handles of the bag can be untied, and if the bag moves out of the way, the mother and everyone around the child can be in the urine.

The package handles are cut to make it possible to tie them around the baby’s feet. After securing the package on the child, you need to wait for urination. In this case, the child should stay upright. Next, the urine is carefully drained into a sterile container.

If the baby is small, a plastic bag can be pododit under the child on the oilcloth.

• Do not give your child to urinate on a diaper, and then try to unscrew it in a jar.
• It is not recommended to keep urine at room temperature for more than 2 hours, as this will make the analysis unreliable.
• Babies must be undermined before collecting urine, and parents need to wash their hands using baby soap.
• The container in which urine is collected must be sterile.
• For analysis, it is best to collect the first urine that the boy allocated in the morning.
• If you wait for a long time and the baby doesn’t urinate, you can resort to small tricks, for example, pour water from one glass to another next to the child, put the baby’s handle in a plate with warm water, stroke the baby below the navel, give your baby some drink or wet it a little the diaper on which the crumb lies.