What Is an Alcohol Swab?
If pathogenic bacteria are detected in sputum and throat swab secretions, it is considered a respiratory infection. Can be combined with other tests (X-ray fluoroscopy, B ultrasound, etc.) to diagnose respiratory infections. Common bacteria in respiratory infections are: Staphylococcus, Pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, E. coli, etc.
Throat swab specimen
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- Chinese name
- Throat swab specimen
- [purpose]
- Pharyngeal and tonsil secretions for bacterial culture
- [Usage]
- Throat swab culture tube, alcohol lamp, match
- [Clinical significance
- If tuberculosis is cultured, it is tuberculosis
- If pathogenic bacteria are detected in sputum and throat swab secretions, it is considered a respiratory infection. Can be combined with other tests (X-ray fluoroscopy, B ultrasound, etc.) to diagnose respiratory infections. Common bacteria in respiratory infections are: Staphylococcus, Pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, E. coli, etc.
- Throat swab specimen collection
- [purpose]
- Take secretions from the pharynx and tonsils for bacterial culture or virus isolation.
- [Usage]
- Throat swab culture tube, alcohol lamp, match, tongue depressor, flashlight.
- [step]
- 1. Check the doctor's order, put the label on the specimen container, and bring the contents to the patient's bed.
- 2. Check the patient and explain the purpose and method of pharyngeal swab culture.
- 3 Ignite the alcohol lamp, tell the patient to open his mouth to make an "ah" sound, expose the throat, and wipe the secretions on the zygomatic arches, pharynx, and tonsils with a sensitive and gentle movement with a sterile cotton swab inside the culture tube.
- 4 After removing, sterilize the test tube mouthpiece on the flame of an alcohol lamp, then insert a cotton swab into the test tube and stopper.
- 5. Send in time for inspection.
- [Clinical significance] If tuberculosis bacillus is cultured, it is pulmonary tuberculosis. If yeast-like bacteria are cultivated, consider whether antibiotics are used improperly or excessively during the infection, and antibiotics should be stopped immediately and switched to antifungal drugs, such as amphotericin B, griseofulvin, clotrimazole, etc.