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magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 10:33 PM Jul 2014

PSA: don't think you can fool a urine drug screen with water

Some young person apparently was afraid their urine would be subjected to a drug screen. I get a colorless,crystal clear liquid with specific gravity of 1.0000 and pH 7.0 and I presume water. So will the doctor. Unless something really, really majorly serious is going on, even crystal clear, colorless urine will have a specific gravity of at least 1.004. Urine pH has a wide range, but water always has specific gravity of 1.0000 and pH 7.0. Just sayin'

No drug screen was ordered, but the U/A was a wasted test and provided the Dr. no diagnostically useful info.

Good thing they ordered a serum preg test instead of urine.

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PSA: don't think you can fool a urine drug screen with water (Original Post) magical thyme Jul 2014 OP
Dilution is the solution Lochloosa Jul 2014 #1
I had a patient try that on me once. Aristus Jul 2014 #2
you can buy "clean" urine online Mosby Jul 2014 #3
I've done something similar. JoeyT Jul 2014 #4
around here sweetapogee Jul 2014 #5

Aristus

(66,434 posts)
2. I had a patient try that on me once.
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 11:03 PM
Jul 2014

I needed a urine specimen for routine analysis, not for a drug test or anything. I opened the cabinet that connects the patient bathroom to the lab and saw the specimen cup sitting there with clear fluid in it. I picked it up; the cup was cold. Not as warm as urine. Not even lukewarm. Cold.

He'd run tap water into the cup, fearing I was going to drug-screen him.

I issued him a fairly gentle scolding, centered mostly around how long we had known each other, and why didn't he trust me? He hung his head a little, but he hasn't done it since.

Mosby

(16,328 posts)
3. you can buy "clean" urine online
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 12:24 AM
Jul 2014

Just make sure if your going to be tested that it's close to body temp. Inner thigh works well I've heard.

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)
4. I've done something similar.
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 01:39 AM
Jul 2014

I had to go for an orientation where we were supposed to be drug screening at 8 in the morning, so I drank enough that I knew I'd have to go, because if you fail to go twice it's considered refusing to take the test. So at five in the afternoon, when they finally got round to giving the test, I'd already had to go twice. I managed to eke out about 3/4ths of the way to the line, said "To hell with it." and brought it up to the line with warm tap water.

Maybe the dude just couldn't pee.

I work short term contract jobs, so I've seen every trick in the book for people cheating drug tests. The most popular is to tape a glue bottle full of clean urine to your testicles or thigh.

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