As any parent can attest to, repeated attempts to retrieve a urine sample from a baby without full bladder control is a frustrating, tedious and time-consuming feat. The fact that the youngster cannot deliver the desired sample on request puts stress on the medical team, the patient and their family to do everything possible to get that urine at all costs. Now, BGU researchers have developed a simple solution to alleviate that stress.
The popular method of acquiring a urine sample is by applying a plastic bag to the groin area and patiently waiting for a spontaneous involuntary emission to allow collection of the urine. Only now the mission is compounded by concealing the bag inside an opaque diaper. How often do you check the bag to see if it has filled up? Can the bag remain in position despite repeated manipulation?
Drs. Sody Naimer and Ilia Volkov suggest a method to modify this highly inefficient practice. Their technique involves cutting a simple slit in the upper front side of the diaper and pulling the collection bag through the created aperture.
Their idea, to be published in the Journal of Pediatric Emergency Carewill allow diaper protection from stool dispersion, if excreted, while at the same time exposing the attached bag out in the open so that its contents can be visually checked at any given moment.
Adoption of this simple procedure can decrease waiting times and increase the success of sample retrieval. The authors hope that after wide experience is gained with this technique a formal comparative controlled study will be undertaken to prove its efficacy and true value.
Naimer is also the inventor of an anti-hemorrhaging bandage. Naimer and Volkov are members of the Department of Community Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
