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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Read between the lines for best results Oct 28, 2011
By P. Mullins
"OFFICIAL NASCAR MEMBERS CLUB"
What the instruction DON'T tell you is the correct doctor approved methos of using these strips.
For home use, your test should be the first thing in the morning, Not in the day or after a meal.
Next pee in a "urine sample bottle" available from your doctor or pharmacy free usually. This eliminate the contamination
from your cavity liquids. Dip the strip into the bottle and wait only a count of three and then lay the test strip on a piece of tissue paper and start counting (this is VERY important.
ONE minute for the Nitrate pad and 2 minutes for the Leukocytes pad. Read the nitrate first and compare the color. after another read the other pad, do this because the nitrate (one minute pad) will turn not be accurate after one minute, so you have to know that Purply is is bad, and beige is good, so look for purple on both padds after 1 min and 2 mins.
( if the urine is cloudy, then you are almost sure you have an infection starting). Cloudy urine the first pee of the morning is a sign that is basically a clue that you have bacteria in the urine.
These strip are only as good as the person reading them. It you get regular UTI's then you should already know PURPLE is the infection. If only one is purple, you probably don't have an infection, but should see your doctor anyway.
Burning while urinating is either an infection, a kidney stone, or another problem
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Maybe not so accurate Mar 10, 2010
By L. Glenn
I have been having frequent urinary infections so I bought this product. I tried one strip and it showed I had a bladder infection so I went to the doctor.
They did a test and it showed I did not have an infection. So I do question the accuracy of these strips. Although they are very convenient to have. I guess
it is better to be tested and not have an infection than ignore an infection.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Total scam Jan 08, 2012
By Tre.fire
First let me start by saying I have used AZO test strips for 18 years, since I was paralyzed in 1994. At that time, a box of 7 strips cost about 6$ at the store. Since that time I have seen AZO, with their corner on the market, reduce the number of strips to 3 while charging more than double what they once cost. They went through a brief transition period where they tried to legitimize their rapacious gouging by encasing the strips in a plastic display that showed the same results only made to look "scientific" and official like they were pregnancy tests and legitimize the increased cost. After a year or so they decided they no longer had to excuse the geometric increase in cost and just made the same old strips as back in '94.
I believe the quality of the strip is also decreased over time with mayb only 1 of the 3 strips actually fully functional. For instance, on several occasions I have tested one morning and found not even traces of WBC, yet, when I tested again in the afternoon, 5 hours later, I had a full fledged UTI with both tabs changing color virtually immediately. There is no possible way to go from not even a white blood cell or two, to having not only a super abundance of WBC but also nitraites being full blown as well. This has happened to me on virtually every box I have bought. Since they only provide 3 strips (that's 4$ per test of doctor recommended quality), and given the inaccuracy, the box is only good for one round of testing. Call me paranoid, maybe I am, but I believe this is a planned aspect on the part of AZO to increase their sales. When I was living for a while in Canada, there was a product that performed the same function as the AZO strips, slightly smaller in size, but 64 tests in a pack for 8 dollars. i never had a UTI when I was there, though I tested for it, so I can't attest to the accuracy, but I doubt they were less precise than AZO and at a fraction of the cost. I don't mind paying higher prices for products that are better quality, but the fact that some other company could make a business selling the same strips for such a small price tells me that AZO is cynically ripping off the public, that it is costing them next to nothing to make these strips and they are charging the price they do because they are the only company in business in the american market.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 AZO Test Strips do the job. Nov 30, 2009
By David L. Brown
The test let me know that I had an infection and what type -- great product.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
A quick diagnosis! Feb 14, 2010
By SheilaE
We had one of these in the medicine cabinet that had come as a 'free gift' with Azo Standard tablets. So glad I kept it! This morning I was symptomatic, did the test, and called the Kaiser Advice Nurse with the results (this is not my first UTI). Less than two hours later (and today is a Sunday, mind you) I had picked up my antibiotic with instructions- and was able to stay at home, getting done what I needed to get done, until I saw that the prescription showed on my Kaiser online med list.
Nice to have- I think, without it, I'd have had to go into the lab, waste a ton of time, and probably not be able to pick up the medication until tomorrow when the results came back- two trips over there instead of one quick pickup.
Healthcare managers? Take note- it'll save your doc, your lab, and your scheduling staff hours- and probably the Advice Nurse, too, as she didn't have to call me back to tell me to go to the lab.
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