The benefits of saliva tests:
- They are very simple to use and minimally invasive.
- They can be used anywhere, at any time.
No need for bathroom or special amenities.
Saliva is immediately accessible. - They can be used to detect tobacco consumption immediately after taking, long before nicotine traces can appear in the urine, and last for several hours.
- They are done in front of you, which makes them very difficult to falsify or adulterate. Salivary tests reduce the potential for cheating.
For parents, this nicotine saliva test can be used as part of a comprehensive prevention against smoking. In most households, young people are not allowed to smoke. This is not to ruin their lives, but to protect them. Regular testing can help to enforce this rule. Many youg people will be reluctant to light a cigarette if they know they will be tested.
Tobacco has always been (along with alcohol) the first drug that young people are exposed to. The first cigarettes are smoked among friends, cousins or neighbors. They are smoked discreetly, taking care that parents do not notice. Most adult smokers started this way. Often, young people even start smoking to give in to group pressure.
Setting up regular tobacco testing in the home can give some people a timely and valid reason to refuse a cigarette: "no, I can't smoke, my parents test me".
The principle is simple:
1 The donnor must put the absorbant tab in his/her mounth and salivate on it for a few seconds.
That's it ! Nothing more.
The test will then start automatically.
2 Read the results after 10 minutes.
Two letters are written on the white cassette:
- C = control line; It must always be present otherwise the test is invalid.
- T = test line for cotinine (nicotine metabolite).
When 2 red lines appear,
the test is NEGATIVE.
| When only 1 line appears,
the test is POSITIVE.
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