Your clinician wants to collect some of the sputum that you cough up from your lungs. The laboratory will test the sputum for tuberculosis (TB) bacteria.
Checking your sputum is the best way to find out if the medicine is working. You will be asked to come for clinical check-ups and sputum samples in order for you to become aware of your health throughout the treatment, whether you have DSTB, DRTB or XDRTB.
We will see if TB is still visible in the sputum; if so, it means you are still infectious. The test will say if the sputum result is positive (when the TB bacteria is visible) or negative (when the TB bacteria is no longer visible). The result will help you and the clinicians know how you are responding to the treatment and decide on the treatment follow up (prescription and duration).
Your will be given a sputum bottle, for collecting your sputum.
Follow these steps carefully
- The sputum bottle is sterilized. Do not open it until you are ready to use it.
- Choose an open space that is far from other people, and If possible, go outside before collecting the sputum sample.
- Do it as soon as you wake up in the morning (before you eat or drink anything).
- Rinse your mouth with water and then spit before producing the sputum sample.
- Breathe deeply through your nose, for two or three times, retaining the air for a few seconds each time.
- Cough hard to expel the sputum.
- Take the sterilized sputum bottle to the mouth and spit out the sample inside of it.
- Must close the sterilized sputum bottle very carefully, to prevent the sputum from spilling.
- It is important that the sputum comes from the lungs; this is the one that will help with the diagnosis.
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