Patent ID: 7476201

Claim:
Apparatus for quick screening for vaginal moisture pH level as related to a pre-selected pH level, comprising a) a manually manipulable generally key shaped element including an elongated probe insertible into the vagina, b) at least one arcuate pH indicator on said probe, said indicator characterized as producing a color which corresponds to pH level of vaginal moisture contacting the indicator, said indicator being a Nitrazine indicator, c) and a local comparison zone on the probe having a single and permanent color corresponding to a predetermined pH level, and positioned proximate and in longitudinal alignment with said indicator and arcuately shaped in substantially the same size and arcuate shape as said indicator to facilitate moisture travel along multiple paths to reach the indicator, for quick visual color comparison with the color of said indicator after indicator contact with vaginal moisture, said permanent color being sunflower yellow to indicate 4.5 pH, substantially, d) said element including an enlarged substantially flat handle from which the probe projects to be gripped between the user's thumb and forefinger, the handle having two laterally spaced edges facing toward said comparison zone and spaced therefrom, to limit probe insertion into the vagina, said indicator and said local comparison zone being aligned on a line which extends between said two handle edges, and both said indicator and local comparison zone having curved edges facing oppositely and convexly away from said line, and protruding at opposite edges of the probe, e) and a vaginosis test site on the probe and spaced remotely from said pH indicator, said comparison zone, and said handle edges so that vaginal moisture at said vaginosis test site will not come into contact with the pH indicator, the vaginosis test site directly spaced from said handle edges.