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Instructions for your do-it-yourself vaginal swabs. It is a good idea to read these instructions through before taking your swab.
Use the images and notes in the 13 steps below to help you to successfully take a vaginal swab.
Following discussion with your doctor you should have picked up 1 or 2 vaginal swabs. Each swab has a sample bag, a form, and a small rectangular label with a bar code on sticky-back paper. Do not mix up the samples/bags/forms/labels.
This guide is for a Chlamydia Swab (the sample pot has an orange label, the swab has a pink stick).These swabs are used to test for chlamydia and gonorrhoea.
This is what the pack looks like.
Prepare yourself to take the swab(s). Ideally you need a clean, flat surface on which to place the parts of the pack. This is important as you must not spill the fluid in the sample pot.
Carefully peel open the outer packaging so you can reach the sample pot and swab packet inside.
The contents of pack… a sample pot and a swab packet.