Specimen Required

Collect breath specimens (minimum volume:  bag of “breath” must be full) from a fasting patient using a Meretek UBT^TM Breath Test Specimen Collection Kit. Collect baseline breath specimen using the blue bag. Collect post-dose breath specimen using the pink bag 15 minutes after drinking Pranactin® Citric solution. (Remind patient that Pranactin® Citric contains a small amount of aspartame sweetener.) Test may not be suitable for patient phenylketonuria whose dietary phenylalanine should be restricted.

Note:  1. Patient should not have taken bismuth/tritec, antibiotics, proton-pump inhibitors (eg, Prilosec®, Prevacid®, Aciphex®, Protonix®, Nexium®) or Pepto-Bismol® for 2 weeks prior to testing.
2. Patient should have fasted (except for plain water) at least 1 hour before administering BreathTek^TM UBiT®-IR300 UBT.