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For a 24 - hour urinalysis, the first sample of the day is not to be collected.
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Correct: For 24 hr urine collection, You have to flush the first urine of the day (since that's the urine you have made the night before), start with empty bladder, mark the time, and collect all urine you make after that till the same time the next morning!
Answered 5/30/2016
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