Patient
The 24-hour collection container may contain chemicals (as a preservative) that are hazardous. DO NOT urinate directly into the container. Collect urine in a clean, dry vessel and carefully pour the urine into the 24-hour collection container.

1. Follow your physician’s advice regarding any food, drink or drugs before and during collection.
2. Upon awakening, completely empty your bladder and discard this urine. This is your start date and time and you should write on your paperwork and/or the collection container.
3. Collect urine for the next 24 hours up to and including your start time.
4. Recap the collection container carefully and completely.
5. Return the collection container to where you obtained it as soon as possible.

Provider
Obtain a suitable collection container. (Contact UIDL Client Services to obtain a container or to verify the suitability of a container available locally.)

Label the collection container to adequately identify the specimen upon its return.

Determine if the collection will require a preservative, ensuring the collection container has the appropriate preservative, at the correct concentration, along with a warning label indicating the preservative in use.

Give the patient or guardian the container and request it be refrigerated during collection if at all possible. If the container contains a preservative, advise the recipient of the presence of the preservative.

Upon return of the collection container, mix the specimen at least 12-24 times by gentle inversion prior to measuring or aliquoting a sample.

Measure and record the volume on the requisition.

Pour off a well-mixed sample of 50 – 100 mL into two dry, plastic screw-capped jars.

Carefully seat the cap tightly, so as to avoid leakage.

(For urine tests requiring no preservatives and urine tests requiring preservative and special containers, see Appendices "Urine Test Requiring no Preservatives" and "Urine Tests Requiring Preservatives or Special Containers").

If the indicated supplies are not available locally, contact UIDL Client Services at (1-866-844-8522) for assistance.

The Total Volume is required for all 24-hour collections.

For all urine tests, two 50 mL samples are preferred. If a suitable container is not available locally, contact UIDL Client Services for assistance.