Urine Strainer

A urine strainer is used to collect a kidney stone from the urine stream.

Each time you urinate, do so in a jar. Pour the urine from the jar through the strainer and into the toilet. Continue doing this until 24 hours after your pain stops. By then, if there was a kidney stone, it should pass from your bladder. Some stones dissolve into sand-like particles and pass right through the strainer. In that case, you won't ever see a stone.

You may reuse the strainer several times by allowing it to air dry.

Save any stone that you find in the strainer and bring it to your doctor for analysis. It may be possible to prevent certain types of stones from forming. Therefore, it is important to know what kind of stone you have.