Help!!!

[nannyjlove]

This is angering me! I feel like I am having a anxiety attack. I just got off the phone with uro office asking for a urine culture to be called into the lab for me. She put me on hold to ask the dr to give her the order and she said that he said I need a clean catch cath. specimen done and I need to wait until Friday when he is in the office. Why do I #1 need to wait until he is in the office next when she said a nurse is gonna be doing it anyhow? Why do I need a cath done? She said because all my other specimens were contaminated with skin flora...SO WHAT...skin flora is no infection. Entercoccus is Entercoccus!!!!!

Do most of you get cathed for a urine culture? Maybe I am not understanding could he be thinking that since it was contaminated with skin flora that it could be contaminated with entercoccus since it is found in the bowel? This is all so new to me maybe I am just not getting it. I am just full of anxiety!!!!
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[Katrina]

Beats me why he has to be there when a nurse will be doing it.
It is true that a cath is the cleanest way to get a sample and that way if they find anything they can't say it must have just been a dirty sample....it may allow them to have more confidence in anything that they find and treating it. Yes, he may be thinking that he needs to be sure the bacteria is from your urinary system.

[ICNDonna]

Even if a nurse will be doing the actual catheterization, the doctor ordering it must be in the office --- it's one of those rules having to do with privileges. When my kids had allergy shots, it was the same --- they couldn't give the shot until the doctor was in the office, even if he was seeing another patient when the nurse was giving the shot.

Donna

[nannyjlove]

Thanks Donna....It's just that I am in pain and I donot know where it is coming from! Any ideas of why he wants a clean catch when it is a uti every time?? Enterococcus is Enterococcus! Thanks again!

[dg2901]

A clean-catch sample will eliminate the guess work as to whether its the actual urinary tract that is infected or whether the contaminant is coming from the skin around the urethral area.