上海で新たな核酸スクリーニングが行われていたとき, という趣旨の噂がソーシャルメディアで広まった “サンプリングに使用される綿棒には試薬が付着しており、有毒です”. 一部のネチズンはメッセージを残しました “上海は噂のプラットフォームを反駁” saying that the elderly at home did not want to participate in nucleic acid screening after seeing the relevant rumors, and also persuaded young people to try their best not to undergo nucleic acid testing and antigen testing.
Is there a difference between the swabs used in nucleic acid testing and antigen testing and ordinary cotton swabs?
Will the above reagents threaten health?
The answer is: no threat to health! The Shanghai refutes rumors platform asked a number of test kit manufacturers for verification, and all received a clear answer that “sampling cotton swabs are different from those used in daily life, they do not contain reagents, nor are they toxic.”
Strictly speaking, the cotton swabs used for sampling should be called “サンプリング綿棒”, not “綿棒”, because they are not cotton swabs used in daily life. The biggest difference between the two is that the cotton swabs in daily life are made of absorbent cotton, while the sampling swabs look similar to ordinary cotton swabs, but the top is actually a flocked swab.
Why use flocked swabs for nucleic acid testing and antigen testing?
あ 植毛綿棒 is used because it is more suitable for sampling and testing. 植毛綿棒はナイロン繊維植毛技術で作られています, and the front end is coated with nylon short fibers fixed in a vertical manner, so that there is no absorption hole in the entire collection area of the swab. この上, the collected sample is not dispersed and retained in the fiber, which facilitates faster and more efficient elution. Relevant data show that flocking swabs can elute more than 85% of the sample collection; traditional cotton swabs, especially those made of absorbent cotton, cannot completely collect and elute samples.
実際には, any citizen who has done “family stab” can also feel the difference between the sampling swab and the ordinary cotton swab: when using the antigen detection kit, the sampling swab needs to be rotated and mixed in the preservation solution for at least 30 seconds after sampling. , and then squeeze the swab head across the outer wall of the sampling tube for at least 5 秒, thus completing the elution of the sample. If it is an ordinary cotton swab, not only can the sample not be eluted during this process, but the absorbent cotton will absorb the preservation solution, and even if it is squeezed out, it is a mixture of the sample and the preservation solution.
The online claim that “sampling cotton swabs are poisonous” is completely nonsense. Sampling swabs are produced for sampling, and do not contain any soaking reagents themselves, nor do they need to contain reagents; 同時に, sampling swabs are medical devices, and the basic requirements for qualified products are non-toxic and harmless.
In order to learn more about sampling swabs, we randomly selected antigen detection kits circulating in the market to see what sampling swabs they were paired with. Judging from the collected sampling swabs, all of them are small independent packages, and the Chinese product name is “使い捨てサンプリング綿棒” instead of “cotton swab”. There are medical device filing certificate information on the product packaging.
多くの sampling swab manufacturers have stated that according to national regulations, single-use sampling swabs belong to a class of medical device products, not only production must be filed, but also strict production environment requirements and quality supervision standards, qualified products must be non-toxic harmless. 同時に, “使い捨てサンプリング綿棒” is a general product in the medical field, which can sample different parts and be used in different detection behaviors. It is not specially produced for nucleic acid detection or antigen detection, so the swab will not contain other reagents.
