A member asked:

Used 2 of 3 strips in flushable home fobt kit. both strips neg after 2 minutes. but when i flushed, both times the strips floated back into toilet and now read bright blue positive. what's going on?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Contaminated: Once the time limit is passed or if contaminated (like with chlorinated water), can do odd things not attributable to the test. If properly (-) in correct window (2 min), then they were negative.

Answered 3/24/2014

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Not reliable: I would not make much of this because there are so many substances in the water that can render the test falsely positive!

Answered 3/25/2014

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