Question: Hi, my daughter is 5.6 year old and since Friday, we are observing a loss of appetite and she has been passing motions which which are whitish in colour. She has also been complaining of stomach pain once in a while and is a bit tired. Earlier last week on 25th April, around 3:30am she had vomitting, which was due to over eating, she had multiple vomits through the whole of 25th May, but that just stopped without any medications, and then the rest of the week until 28th April she was fine. Today 30th April, she didnt have proper lunch and dinner. She passed motion twice today, the morning after noon motion was pale yellow but the night motion (an hour back) was whitish in colour. I called up my pediatrician and he has asked to get a routine stool test done, which we will get done XXXXXXX I checked her eyes, and her nails, they are NOT yellowish in colour. Also, I wanted to ask you the right method to collect stool sample. How should I go about collecting the stool sample? I will go and get a collection box from a lab close to my home.

How should i collect the stool? We have a western comode at home. Does the bilirubin test requires blood test?