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Body Balance - Solutions for Healthy Living

Sample collection instructions for Hair, Saliva, Urine

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Bend the tabs down on the hair scale. Place the card tab side down on a flat surface to create a scale.

2 Hair samples must be dry. Take samples from the area highlighted in the illustration.
3 Using clean stainless steel scissors, cut off hair samples very close to the scalp. Trim the sample so it includes only about one-inch of the newest hair growth (the hair that was closest to your scalp.) Discard remaining hair
4 Place the one-inch sample of new hair growth on the elevated side of the hair scale.
5 Repeat steps 3 and 4, collecting samples from at least seven places within the back portion of the neck until the scale tips. Insufficient hair samples cannot be processed.
6 Make sure you have filled out and signed the Health Screen Request Form. Your sample will not be be processed without this signed form. Also, be sure to fill out the label on the plastic hair collection bag. Place the hair sample inside and seal.
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To send your sample, place the plastic hair collection bag, along with the Health Screen Request Form, into the mailing envelope provided and seal for shipping. You can mail this from any post office or US Postal Service mailbox.


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1 Rinse your mouth with cold water. Spit out water completely. Wait five minutes. During collection, do not cough or clear your throat into the collection tube.
2 Collection 8AM: Use the collection tube provided to collect your saliva. It is important that you provide at least a 3 ml full tube with LIQUID, NOT FOAM. Insufficient saliva samples cannot be processed.
3 Make sure you replace the cap tightly to prevent leakage. Write your name and the date of sample collection on the label provided. Place the label onto the tube.
4 Place the tube into the biohazard bag. Enclose the biohazard bag, along with the completed and signed Health Screen Request Form into the return box provided. Place the box into the prepaid mailing envelope and mail as indicated. Plan to return your samples on the final day of collection. If you are unable to do so, refrigerate samples overnight and mail the next day.


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1 Upon waking for the day, pass your first urine into the toilet as usual. This is your first urine of the day, even if you got up to urinate during the night.
2 The next time you need to urinate, use the collection cup provided in your kit and collect your second urine after waking. Urine needs to be collected before 10AM.
3 Open the clear tube. Use the pipette to transfer urine from the collection cup into the tube until the tube is 3/4 full. Cap securely. Dispose of pipette and collection cup. Write your name, time of collection, and date on the tube.
4 Place the tube into the biohazard bag provided. Plan to return the sample on the day of collection, or refrigerate overnight and ship the next day. Make sure you have filled out and signed the Health Screen Request Form. Sample will not be processed without this signed form.
5 To send your sample, put the biohazard bag, along with the completed and signed Health Screen Request Form, into the white return box. Place the box into the prepaid mailing envelope envelope and seal for shipping. You can mail this from any Post Office or US Postal Service mailbox.
Not available to New York state residents.