If Fecal Occult Blood
Collection Instructions
Do not collect samples during, or until three
days after your menstrual period, or while you have bleeding hemorrhoids
or blood in your urine.
Do Not Consume The Following Drugs, Vitamins or Food:
Avoid 7 days prior to and during the test period:
Avoid 72 hours prior to and
during the test period:
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Vitamin C in excess of
250 mg/day (from all sources, dietary and supplemental). Some iron
supplements contain quantities of vitamin C greater than 250 mg/day.
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Red meat (beef, lamb),
including processed meats and liver.
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Raw fruits and vegetables
(especially melons, radishes, turnips, and horseradish).
Collection of the
Specimen
Stool samples should be collected from 3 consecutive bowel movements.
Make sure that you have your name and date of collection on each of the
three (3) cards.
After you have a bowel movement, use the wooden sticks provided to
remove a sample (small sample) of stool off of the toilet tissue. Open
the card (the side with your name on it), using a wooden stick smear the
stool on the "A" window and then on the "B" window. Close the card when
you are done and place inside the bag. Follow these steps for the second
and third card. Please return the Hemoccult cards to the lab when you
have completed the test.
Return completed slides to the laboratory no later than 14 days after
the first sample collection.
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