Can smoking cigarettes an hour before the PCR test affect the result if the swab was taken from the nose?
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Angelika Talar-Śpionek Pharmacist, Editor
2 years ago
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Katarzyna Domagała Pharmacist
2 years ago
If there are recommendations that say that before taking a swab, you should not drink, eat, chew chewing gum or smoke cigarettes before taking a swab, it means that this type of activity may affect the falsification of the TEST result for COVID-19. I am attaching a study that may be helpful: https://www.gdziepolek.pl/blog/test-na-koronawirusa-kto-gdzie-i-jak-moze-go-wykonac