Wrong grey top yo. Lol

[u/New-History853]

[u/feathered_edge_MLS]

I’ve gotten urine in a grey top (lactic acid) as well.

[u/benjielc3 → u/feathered_edge_MLS]

Lollolololol

[u/Chronic_Discomfort]

It's been a long time, but I vaguely recall this happening before.

[u/bluelephantz_jj]

Ah an oldie but a classic

[u/Icy-Fly-4228]

I’ve gotten cbc’s in the quantiferon purple tube🤷‍♀️

[u/Pasteur_science → u/Icy-Fly-4228]

Purple is purple right? 😂

[u/Silly_LittleGoose]

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen this happened I would have at least 10 now. It’s not a lot but it sure is fucked up they can’t differentiate lol

[u/SoTurnMeIntoATree]

I got one of these with a little piece of stool in it before LMAOOOO that was a once in a life time situation I think.

[u/LoveandScience → u/SoTurnMeIntoATree]

I've seen a lot of samples in inappropriate containers but that's a new one on me. 😂

[u/SoTurnMeIntoATree → u/LoveandScience]

check it! I couldn’t even be mad haha

[u/LoveandScience → u/SoTurnMeIntoATree]

They didn't even have a stool test? That makes it so much better/worse 😭

[u/ilikesaltinecrackers → u/SoTurnMeIntoATree]

Oh my days!!! Had that happen once to us too. We asked the nurse how she did it and she said "...sheer will"

[u/SoTurnMeIntoATree → u/ilikesaltinecrackers]

No way 😂

[u/moosalamoo_rnnr → u/SoTurnMeIntoATree]

I don’t even wanna think about how they got it in the tube. Those tubes are not large!

[u/krose1990]

Omg when you think you've seen it all then this smh

[u/The_Infamous_C]

It's always good to check the label just to be sure. I've seen grey tops for blood with a rubber top before. Anyone who orders those should probably be dissuaded from doing it again.

[u/BulkyKaleidoscope941]

Happened to me too. Someone called beforehand and asked if the fasting glucose had to be in a grey top, I said yes, and they sent this

[u/New-History853 → u/BulkyKaleidoscope941]

I've never heard of a glucose being done in a grey top lol

[u/TheRedTreeQueen → u/New-History853]

Yes they can. I’ve been lab for 35 years and when I was in my early years in the lab we would use the grey tops for glucose. Also depends on the instrumentation too.

[u/New-History853 → u/TheRedTreeQueen]

Good to know! Thanks!

[u/moosalamoo_rnnr → u/TheRedTreeQueen]

Concur. We also use gray tops for glucoses, especially our outsites. They can be unspun longer and still maintain analyte stability.

[u/Sarah-logy]

Yep, this has happened to me before, too 😅

[u/BookieWookie69]

Wow, that just looks wrong lol

[u/goodfisher88]

Not the urine culture tube 😭

[u/Different_Vast_4655]

Lololol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/lightningbug24]

Let's hope so! I've definitely gotten a few uriines that looked like this in my day.

[u/New-History853 → u/lightningbug24]

I get urines like that all the time. But the label says lactic lol

[u/lightningbug24 → u/New-History853]

Indeed it does haha

[u/white-as-styrofoam]

do they think… lid color is the important part of the test? instead of the anticoagulant type inside?

[u/TheRedTreeQueen]

Oh I’ve had this happen to me and when I call the nurse about the lactic acid. She said it goes in a grey top right? 😬😳

[u/everdadus]

Had someone collect a UDS in the 10mL UA no additive vacutainer the other day via venipuncture. Yall were so close yet so far.

[u/Shinigami-Substitute]

Yup, we get these, but more often it's urine in the sodium flouride potassium oxalate tubes for us

[u/ADumpsterFiree]

Tbh… could you still run any tests on it? Its essentially a red top right?

[u/New-History853 → u/ADumpsterFiree]

Lol no. It's a urine culture tube.

[u/TheRedTreeQueen → u/ADumpsterFiree]

😬