Adding Tap Water To Urine Sample
What will happen after added tap water to urine medical test.
Adding tap water to urine sample. One way around this according to hoffman may be to take large dosages of vitamin b before giving your sample as this will increase the yellowness of your urine. On the downside adding water into the urine specimen not only alters the concentration of the drug metabolites but it also throws the levels of other vital components of urine including temperature ph creatinine and specific gravity levels out of their normal levels. The sample is then analyzed after 15 minutes. There is always some.
One possible way around this problem is to rub the outside of the container vigorously between your hands for a. Specific gravity makes sure your urine resembles urine and not water. It is done by taking 5 ml of urine and adding ten drops of concentrated ammonia water and solid ammonium sulfate. Also synthetic urine is illegal in nc.
The only thing that will happen if you put water in your urine is that it will dilute the sample. And if that sample is being tested it will show up and if its for a drug test etc not only will you look like a fool but you will also be in a lot of trouble. Adding water is a bad idea because of the test for specific gravity. Then when water is added the urine sample will still be a realistic pale yellow.
It will give inaccurate results and the lab may be able to tell the sample was diluted and call you on it if it is for drug screening if the results are so far off or the lab knows the sample is diluted then they will report it as such and you will have to resubmit a new sample. A pathologist friend of mine says they see it in the lab everyday. When you add water to dilute urine in a drug test what will that do. Asked 5 feb 2010 by simpson89 updated 5 february 2010 topics oxycontin cocaine drug test.
The addition of water to a urine sample will obviously make it a paler yellow and this could result in detection of the tampering. A too cool sample will be an issue if you use water from a sink or toilet to dilute the sample. First as we noted above if the water you use to dilute the sample is room temperature or below it could cool the whole sample to a temperature that will set off alarms with the screener. If the sample turns purple then that.
Technically you can add water but we strongly advise against doing that. 2 adding water will make the sample seem larger than it actually is and with using so little urine the thc metabolite count should register under 50 ng ml. Seems logical to me.