How to use a Mold Test Kit

 

Air samples by settling plate:

Note the time, date and sample label on the Petri dish tape strips on the top of the Petri dish.
Get a large towel and lie the towel where you are going take the settling plate sample.
Remove the tape that wraps the Peter dish; hang the tape so you can reuse it to safety re-seal the Petri dishes.
Set the two Petri dishes side by side on the towel. Open the dishes, placing the tops down without turning them over.
Using distilled water in a spray bottle, mist the air over (and well above) the open Petri dishes with 4 or 5 sprays.
Mist over and above the open Petri dishes with 4 or 5 sprays several times in the next hour.
A small amount of water in the Petri dishes is expected; there should be no more than a thin layer of water in the dish DO NOT OVER SPRAY.
After 1 hour, cover the Petri dishes and, keeping them level, move them to a table or flat surface so you can pour the media into the Petri dishes.
Now pour the red media into 1 Petri dish: replace the top on the now poured Petri dish.
Now pour the amber media into the other Petri dish and replace the top of the Petri dish.
Do not move the Petri dishes; allow 45 plus minutes for the media to harden.
Safety tape the now poured Petri dishes.
Place the Petri dishes In the incubator box.
Open in 48 hours and see what is growing.
Convert the incubator box into a photo stand.
Send us a photo.
Note: neither the diluent nor the pipette are used in this method.
 
 
Dust or surface sampling; The diluent is important in this method.
Note the time, date and sample label on the Petri dish tape strips on the top of the Petri dish. Clean your hands well.
Open one alcohol swab; leave the swab in the opened package, allowing the alcohol to evaporate and the swab to dry out.
Use the other alcohol swab to sterilize a pair of scissors and cut the first (dry) alcohol swab in two equal pieces.
Use both halves of the now cut dried alcohol swab to swipe or blot the surface to be tested.
Insert the now contaminated swabs into the 10ml diluent.
Allow to stand for 2 - 45 minutes. If the humidity is dry or the sample is old mold growth, 1 hour in the diluent is recommended.
Divide the diluent equally between the red and amber media; allow to stand for twenty minutes.
Remove the tape that wraps the Peter dish; hang the tape so you can reuse the tape to safety re-seal the Petri dishes.
Remove the top of the Petri dish. Set it down without turning it over.
Now pour the red media into 1 Petri dish, place the top on the now poured Petri dish.
Now pour the amber media into the other Petri dish and replace the top of the Petri dish.
Do not move the Petri dishes ;allow 45 plus minutes for the media to harden.
Safety tape the now poured Petri dishes.
Place Petri dishes In the incubator box.
Open in 48 hours and see what is growing.
Convert the incubator box into a photo stand.
Send us a photo.
 
Yeast/Candida Test Kit

Our Yeast/Candida test kit media for Drop Out Plating is specially formulated for us by Micrology Laboratories.

The diluent is important in this method.
Note the time, date and sample label on the Petri dish tape strips on the top of the Petri dish. Clean your hands well.
Open one alcohol swab; leave the swab in the package allow the alcohol to evaporate and the swab to dry.
Use the other alcohol swab to sterilize a pair of scissors and cut the alcohol swab in two equal pieces.
Swab the area of your body to be tested; if testing under a fold of skin, lift the excess skin away from the area to be swabbed.
Insert the sample swabs into the 10ml diluent.
Allow to stand for two minutes.
Divide the diluent equally between the red and amber media.
Remove the tape that wraps the Peter dishes; hang the tape so you can reuse the tape to safety reseal the Petri dishes.
Remove the top of the Petri dish.
Now pour the red media into 1 Petri dish, replace the top on the now poured Petri dish.
Now pour the amber media into the other Petri dish and replace the top of the Petri dish.
Do not move the Petri dishes; allow 45 plus minutes for the media to harden.
Safety tape the now poured Petri dishes.
Place Petri dishes In the incubator box.
Open in 48 hours and see what is growing.
Convert the incubator box into a photo stand.
Send us a photo.
 
 
Skin Swipe, Vaginal Swipe Test Instructions
Open one alcohol swab; leave the swab in the opened package, allowing the alcohol to evaporate and the swab to dry out. Use dry swab to swipe the skin, skin fold or vaginal area.
Place the gauze in the diluent (clear liquid) bottle and shake well. Let stand 10 minutes.
Divide the diluent equally between the red and amber media.
Remove the tape that wraps the Peter dishes; hang the tape so you can reuse the tape to safety reseal the Petri dishes.
Remove the top of the Petri dish.
Now pour the red media into 1 Petri dish, replace the top on the now poured Petri dish.
Now pour the amber media into the other Petri dish and replace the top of the Petri dish.
Do not move the Petri dishes; allow 45 plus minutes for the media to harden.
Safety tape the now poured Petri dishes.
Place Petri dishes In the incubator box.
Open in 48 hours and see what is growing.
Convert the incubator box into a photo stand.
Send us a photo.
 
Plates will begin to show growth in 24-72 hours, and will continue to grow for many days. Optimum times to check the plate for growth are 3, 5, 9 and 12 days.
It is suggested you photograph each plate at 2-3 days and 5-7 days for reference.
 

Saliva Test Instructions
 
Thoroughly cleanse oral cavity using toothpaste, rinse with mouthwash and then gargle with hydrogen peroxide. Eat or drink nothing until you have finished providing samples for this test.
As soon as you have voided the oral cavity of hydrogen peroxide, create suction in your mouth, drawing your cheeks in. Repeat this several times.
Remain quiet and, with head bent slightly forward, let saliva accumulate at the front of your mouth.
Gently expel saliva into the yellow bottle of media or use the pipette to obtain a sample. Replace the cap on the bottle; be sure to tighten the cap snugly.
As soon as you have voided the oral cavity of saliva, again create suction in your mouth, drawing your cheeks in. Repeat this several times.
Remain quiet and with head bent slightly forward let saliva accumulate.
Gently expel saliva into the red bottle of media. Replace the cap on the bottle; be sure to tighten the cap snugly.
As soon as you have voided the oral cavity of saliva, create suction drawing your cheeks in. Repeat this several times.
Remain quiet and with head bent slightly forward let saliva accumulate.
Gently expel saliva into the diluent. Replace the cap on the bottle; be sure to tighten the cap snugly. Let bottles stand 10 minutes.
Divide the diluent equally between the red and amber media.
Remove the tape that wraps the Peter dishes; hang the tape so you can reuse the tape to safety reseal the Petri dishes.
Remove the top of the Petri dish.
Now pour the red media into 1 Petri dish, replace the top on the now poured Petri dish.
Now pour the amber media into the other Petri dish and replace the top of the Petri dish.
Do not move the Petri dishes; allow 45 plus minutes for the media to harden.
Safety tape the now poured Petri dishes.
Place Petri dishes In the incubator box.
Open in 48 hours and see what is growing.
The plates will solidify in 10-30 minutes. As soon as the gel has set, re-tape the dish.
 
Plates will begin to show growth in 24-72 hours, and will continue to grow for many days. Optimum times to check the plate for growth are 3, 5, 9 and 12 days.
It is suggested you photograph each plate at 2-3 days and 5-7 days for reference.
 
 
 

Test your body test your home for yeast and molds
Price: $ 19.95 Quantity:

 
This a test kit that will show you what is inside you. This yeast test kit makes it possible for you to easily test yourself for mold and yeast.

 
 This is the box your test kit comes in; the box also serves as an incubation box. After you grow your sample, the incubation box converts into a photo stand, so you can send us photos of you Petri dishes.

 
 
 
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