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Doctors can test your urine for organisms that cause infection in a mid-stream urine sample, or MSU all you need to do is pee into a little pot This test can also indicate to medical professionals the best antibiotics to use in case you have a urine infection This test isn t always necessary in simple and uncomplicated infections a urine dipstick test can be useful to check for blood, sugar, protein and other various chemicals in your urine

Computerised Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans are generally safe and painless tests that efficiently show up organs and other structures inside your body The scanners are tunnels that look like huge

Polo mints and, in the case of MRI, use strong magnetic fields rather than X-rays You need to lie still during the procedure, which may last between 15 and 45 minutes and can be quite noisy Some people can feel claustrophobic in these machines and, if necessary, you can receive medication to make you feel more relaxed You don t have any after-effects from the scan

Ultrasound tests are safe and painless, and good for looking at structures inside your body, and for seeing babies in pregnancy Pictures are taken with a blunt probe (which is round and smooth); to get better pictures, a blob of jelly is used to provide good contact with your skin Because the picture the doctor sees is updated quickly, ultrasound can show movement and assess the shape, size and consistency of unborn babies, and structures or organs such as your liver, kidney, gall bladder, ovaries, testes, breasts, bladder or blood vessels Depending on the area under investigation, you may get instructions prior to the test, such as not to eat or drink, or to attend the test with a full bladder

A barium enema is a test for looking at your large bowel (or colon) lining, and is good for showing up things such as inflammation, pouches in your colon wall or tumours The gut doesn t show up particularly well on standard X-ray pictures, and so a thick liquid containing a substance called barium is injected through your rectum into your gut which can be uncomfortable Because X-rays don t go through barium, they make your gut show up clearly on the X-ray film This procedure is less common these days endoscopy is often used instead but it still has its place

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a harmless, painless test that takes a few minutes to look at your heart s electrical activity, without giving you an electric shock ECGs can detect rhythm abnormalities and help your doctor to investigate chest pain, but they re also sometimes done routinely before operations Electrodes are placed on your chest, and a reading is recorded over a few seconds Special forms of ECGs include exercise ECGs (useful for assessing chest pain, and involves taking serial ECGs under increasing exercise) and ambulatory ECGs (when you wear a mobile ECG for 24 hours or more)

ECGs do have their limitations, and normal ECGs don t necessarily rule out underlying conditions, so sometimes further tests are necessary

An echocardiogram (or ECHO) is a simple ultrasound test that doctors use to assess your heart s structure and function, to check whether a heart is working properly after a heart attack or whether the heart valves are doing their job properly (check out Peering Inside with Ultrasound earlier in this chapter on how it s done) The test is painless, harmless and usually doesn t last longer than 15 30 minutes or so Other special forms of ECHO are sometimes used, for example to check the flow of blood in your heart