Texas Health offers the following tips should you become a victim of sexual assault:

• Go to a safe place and call someone you trust
• Go to the nearest hospital with a SANE program or call 9-1-1
• Do not change clothes but bring a change of clothes to the hospital
• Do not shower, bathe or douche
• Do not brush hair or teeth
• If possible do not eat, drink or go to the bathroom
• Do not smoke

If you have done any of the above it is OK! It is still recommended to seek medical services to make sure you are alright. A sexual-assault medical forensic examination can be done several days after the incident.

Sexual-assault medical forensic examinations can be conducted up to 120 hours after the assault if reported to law enforcement.

You may choose to do a non-report sexual-assault medical forensic examination. In other words, you do not have to report the sexual assault to law enforcement until you feel safe to do so. A non-report sexual-assault medical forensic examination can be conducted up to 120 hours after the assault. The anonymous non-report evidence kit will be held up to five years by the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab.