Urinalysis Test Research

Urinalysis

Urinalysis or also known as routine urine test is a test that evaluates a sample of your urine. It is used to detect and assess a wide range of disorders, including urinary tract infection, kidney disease and diabetes. Much number of diseases and conditions can result in abnormalities in the urine. Often these abnormalities can be detected through a physical, chemical and microscope examination. A urine test can disclose evidence of disease, even some that have not caused significant signs or symptoms.

As your doctor evaluates your results you have to also understand what the doctor is saying. For a normal urine test result you will be expecting many normal values such as, yellow color urine (light/pale to dark/deep amber). Some other things you might be expecting are:

Clarity/turbidity: Clear or cloudy

pH: 4.5-8

Specific gravity: 1.005-1.025

Glucose: less than or equal to 130 mg/d

Ketones: none

Nitrates: Negative

Billrubin: Negative

Urobillrubin: small amount

Blood: less than or equal to 3 RBCs

Protein: less than or equal to 150 mg/d

Casts: 0-5 hyaline casts/lpf

Crystals: Occasionally

Bacteria: None

Yeast: None

You will also have to keep in mind that a normal urinalysis does not guarantee that there is no illness; some people will not release elevated mounts of a substance early in a disease process and some will release them sporadically during the day, which means that they may be missed by a single urine sample. In very dilute urine, small quantities of chemicals may be undetectable.

For an abnormal result you will be expecting:

Increased urine specific gravity may be due to:

Addison’s disease (rare)

Dehydration

Diarrhea that causes Dehydration

Glucosuria

Heart failure (related to decreased blood flow to the kidneys)

Renal arterial stenosis

Shock

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion

Decreased urine specific gravity may be due to:

Aldosteronism (very rare)

Exces Renal tubular necrosis

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