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Collecting a 24-Hour Urine Specimen

Your medical provider has ordered a test for you that requires a 24-hour urine specimen. We have given you both a large and a small container to use in your collection process. Please use the containers we provide. Creatinine clearance testing also requires a blood specimen. Your blood specimen will be drawn at the time you return the specimen container.

Please follow the directions below to get a good specimen:

  1. When you awaken in the morning, empty your bladder. You do NOT keep this specimen. Write this time as your start time.

  1. For the next 24 hours, every time you urinate (empty your bladder), catch your urine in the little container provided and then pour it into the large container.

  1. An accurate test result depends on a total 24-hour collection of all urine passed during the period.

  1. Please keep the specimen on ice or in the refrigerator during the collection process and until delivered to the laboratory.

  1. Bring the specimen to one of the following locations as soon as possible after you finish collecting it:

Outpatient Diagnostic Center: Monday-Friday, 6:30 am to 5 pm

Admit Express at North Oaks Medical Center: Saturday, 6 am to noon

North Oaks Livingston Parish Medical Complex: Monday-Friday, 7 am to 5 pm

For more information on the laboratory services offered at North Oaks, please call (985) 230-6165. To schedule laboratory services, please call (985) 230-7777.

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