Cotton swabs are also called sampling swabs, single-use swabs. It is mainly used for human mouth sampling, nasal sampling, throat sampling, cervical sampling, vaginal sampling.
Nowadays, Cotton swabs use the existing technology "spray technology", which is to make millions of nylon fibers vertically attached to the head of the medical swab stem by electrostatic charge in the Cotton. The vertical nylon fibers resemble a soft brush. If this soft brush is used in the sampling process, the user will have no foreign body sensation. In addition, the fracture point of the Cotton swab used differs from site to site, and the thickness of the swabbing rod also varies. Therefore the softness varies greatly. For example, for nasal swabs, the upper end of the swabbing rod is thin and soft, and the breakpoint is also more posterior.
Cotton swabs: Outstanding sample collection/release capability with >80% release rate
Conventional fiber swabs.
The sample is trapped by the interstitial space within the fiber mass, i.e. the sample is penetrated, diluted, and trapped within the fiber. Slow collection and even slower release.
Cotton swabs take 3-5 seconds to collect a sample, while cotton swabs take 15-120 seconds or longer, which causes stress on the staff during the diagnostic process. The only way to complete the collection and analysis more efficiently is to extract the sample faster.
Cotton swabs are made of nylon fiber flocking technology, the front end is coated with short nylon fibers fixed in a vertical manner, making the entire sampling swab sampling area without absorption holes, sampling samples will not be scattered and retained in the fibers, which is conducive to faster and more efficient elution. Traditional swabs do not completely collect and elute samples, while flocked swabs can elute 95 % of samples. Therefore, the use of Cotton swabs has great advantages for various sample collection applications.
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