Mycotoxins Collection Instructions
Important:
For optimal and clinically relevant results, patients should maintain their routine diet, medications, and supplements unless specifically instructed otherwise by their healthcare provider.
Time of Collection: Collect first-morning urine sample upon waking.
Avoid collection: Do not collect the sample if you have active bleeding or are currently menstruating.
Fasting: Not Required.
Consult your healthcare provider before making any lifestyle changes, including changes to prescribed medications, dietary restrictions, or supplements.
RECOMMENDED: Preparing for the Test to Avoid Test Interference
- Medications: Continue taking prescribed medications unless otherwise directed by your health care provider.
- Hydration: Ensure adequate hydration by drinking 8 glasses of water per day for 2-3 days before the test. On the collection day, do not drink more than 8 oz of water 1 hour prior to urine collection.
OPTIONAL: Preparing for the Test to Avoid Biological Effects
- Diet: For 48 hours before collection, avoid consuming foods high in mycotoxins such as peanuts, corn, wheat, barley, rye, and cottonseed. Also refrain from eating canned or packaged foods, and foods stored in plastic containers.
- Supplements: Avoid antioxidants like vitamin C and glutathione.
- Environmental Factors: Avoid sauna, steam, or intense physical exercise and exposure to environmental pollutants (e.g., cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes) for 24 hours before collection.
Test Interference: Test interference occurs when a food, supplement, or medication alters the sample, or directly interferes with testing reagents. Test interference causes an inaccurate result (e.g., false positive, false negative, false higher, or false lower).
Biological Effects: Even without interfering with the test, some substances can influence your body’s biomarkers, affecting your results by increasing or decreasing the biomarker. However, biological effects do not interfere with test performance, accuracy, or validity. Results will be accurate as measured.