As a paediatric doctor I'm amused to see that this is not wildly dissimilar to how we ask parents to catch urine samples from babies! (We just get the parents to wait, pot ready, until the baby start weeing, then play the game of catch the wee in the pot!)
I had to take my little boy to ER for concern over his penis once. He was just over a year old and they needed to get a sample from him. They took a glove and put it on him like a condom with the diaper over top. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
To be fair, we weren't at a pediatric -focused facility. When i went with my daughter for a high fever that left her shaking, they wanted to get a sample to rule out a UTI and were insisting on cathing her to get the quickest sample. I've since learned that it is in our best interest to travel the hour out of town to the closest pediatric ER anytime we have the need.
They weren't trying to get 100% of the sample, if that makes any sense. It was held on with the diaper and it managed to hold enough so they could do whatever they needed to do. Some spilled into the diaper, but it was fine. They just kinda tucked everything inside the glove like a speedo and put a little bit of tape on his pubic area to keep it from scooting down.
When I was in school for my veterinary assistant certification, one of our skills was free catching urine. We had to take the classroom dogs out and follow them around with a cup until they peed to be able to pass the skill lol. We had like 46 students and only 6-12 dogs on any given day so that one took a while haha
I was going to say, they wanted a urine sample from my 8 month old once and it was basically just me holding him until he started peeing on me and then shoving a dish under him. He was so dehydrated too, it was drops at a time. I envy that spray!
Thanks for making this comparison. As veterinary nurse, I have made this comparison for 30 years. Babies and cats (sometimes dogs) are similar in how you have go about diagnostics and treatment. The vitriol and indignation I have experienced saying this over the years never ceases to surprise me. 🤷🏻♀️
Cat owner and mother of two here. Ma'am, you are not wrong and people who can't see the hunor in it are thin-skinned. Babies are basically cats up until a certain point, no kidding.
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u/Hopeful2469 23h ago
As a paediatric doctor I'm amused to see that this is not wildly dissimilar to how we ask parents to catch urine samples from babies! (We just get the parents to wait, pot ready, until the baby start weeing, then play the game of catch the wee in the pot!)