Urinary analysis is one of the three routines in clinical examination and widely used in clinic. Urinary sediment test, as the most common examination for urinary analysis, is mainly used to identify pathological components in urine including cells, casts, crystal, bacteria and parasites. It is of great value for diagnosis, orientation, identification and prognosis estimation of urinary system disease.
Principle:
SM Urinary sediment stain is the most widely-used method. Directly add stain into urinary sediment, and the components in urinary sediment can be easily identified based on their distinct shape and structure. Compared with the traditional SM stain, this modified BASO Urinary sediment stain offers the benefits of shorter staining time and longer storage stability at room temperature.
Precaution:
1. Urinary specimen must be fresh and morning urine isthe best. Specimen should be tested within 1 hour after collection. Otherwise, add formaldehyde to the specimen and store at 4℃until testing.
2. If urine is alkalescent, adjust to slight acidic with 1% acetic acid to clear phosphate away. Care should be taken not to add toomuch acid, or else erythrocytes and casts will be dissolved.
3. Prior to urine collection, it is very important to ensure that patients follow proper fasting procedure (for example, no drinking water during specimen collection), or else urine will be diluted and results not reliable. For adult women, their pudendum should be cleaned before collection. It ispreferred to collect the mid-stream of urine sample in order to avoid introducing any pudendum and castoff cells from the vagina.