Saliva Sample Collection

A Guide For Patients

When Your Doctor Gives You A Kit…

Take the kit home for collection, everything you need will be inside the box.

When Should You Collect Your Samples?

Premenopausal women collect day 19-21 of the cycle.

Post menopausal women and men collect anytime.

If you have an irregular cycle, ask your provider to check their How-To Guide for guidelines

Preparation For Sample Collection

• We encourage you to read the instructions

• This 3 minute presentation will help you with any questions that may come up!

Labrix Sample Tubes

• Labrix test tubes are small and easy to fill

• You can fill the vial 3/4 full with saliva (bubbles are fine)

• This only takes 2-3 minutes

Sample Collection Times

You will collect four timed samples over the course of one day using the color coded tubes.

1. 30 minutes after wakening (peak Cortisol is at this time)

2. Before lunch

3. Before dinner

4. Before bedtime

Your instruction booklet will give guidelines on when not to eat/drink –be sure to read these.

Sample Collection

Sample Collection

What About Contamination Risk?Make sure you stop taking hormones 18 hours before the first collection time (See instruction booklet for detailed guidelines on this topic).

• Make sure you have

– clean hands and face...

– using the straws to collect the

– sample can reduce any risk of contamination.

• Top Tip – Make-up can contain hormones!

Tips For Collection

Labrix tubes are small and easy to fill. If you do have trouble generating saliva, maybe first thing in the morning, you can sniff a lemon or orange to help produce saliva.

Snap Each Tube Closed Tightly

Put All Four Tubes Inside The Bag

Be Sure To Fill Out All Paperwork

1. Requisition Form

2. Symptom Checklist

3. Bag Label

Final Steps

Put samples and paperwork in box and seal it

Final Steps

A prepaid shipping label is on the base of the kit box

A prepaid shipping label is on the base of the kit box

Shipping TimingThe Kits are coming back to the Labrix lab in Oregon

UPS• If you drop the kit in a UPS drop box on a Friday AFTER the

daily pick up time – the kit will stay there until Monday morning.

• The kit will take 1-6 business days to get here depending on your location. UPS Guarantees 6 business days including the day they pick up the kit.

US Mail• We have found the US Mail takes longer than UPS and has

no guarantees on delivery times. • Most kits reach the lab within 14 days.

Final Steps

• Put samples and paperwork in the box and seal the box

• Ideally put the box in the freezer overnight

• Return the kit to the lab the very next day after collection using either UPS collection box or regular mail (depending on the label on the box)

• The sample is stable for 14 days however, we encourage you to send the box the day following collection to allow for vagaries of the mail system.

If you have any further ques ons please c for assistance.

1 (855) 897-0328