Chlamydia Swab

Instructions for your do-it-yourself vaginal swabs. It is a good idea to read these instructions through before taking your swab.

Use the images and notes in the 13 steps below to help you to successfully take a vaginal swab.

Following discussion with your doctor you should have picked up 1 or 2 vaginal swabs. Each swab has a sample bag, a form, and a small rectangular label with a bar code on sticky-back paper. Do not mix up the samples/bags/forms/labels.

This guide is for a Chlamydia Swab (the sample pot has an orange label, the swab has a pink stick).These swabs are used to test for chlamydia and gonorrhoea.

1

Pack

This is what the pack looks like.

Prepare yourself to take the swab(s). Ideally you need a clean, flat surface on which to place the parts of the pack. This is important as you must not spill the fluid in the sample pot.

2

Peel Open Pack

Carefully peel open the outer packaging so you can reach the sample pot and swab packet inside.

3

Contents

The contents of pack… a sample pot and a swab packet.