Urine tests can detect urinary tract infections, diabetes, kidney disease, jaundice and other diseases.
1. Urinary tract infection: Urinary tract infection can be detected by examination of red blood cell count, white blood cell count and bacterial count in urine, which usually show elevation of the above items. Symptoms such as frequent urination, urinary urgency and painful urination are often present.
2. Diabetes mellitus: elevated urine glucose levels and elevated urine ketone bodies may be caused by diabetes mellitus, but the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus needs to be confirmed by other relevant levels of blood glucose to meet the diagnostic criteria.
3. Kidney disease: elevated urine protein level suggests that the glomerular filtration barrier may be impaired, changes in urine specific gravity suggests tubular concentration and dilution dysfunction, increase in urinary erythrocytes may occur in the renal microvascular damage, changes in urine PH suggests that tubular hydrogen secretion dysfunction and so on. It can check all kinds of renal diseases such as glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, tubular acidosis and so on.
Usually, urine test can also indicate jaundice and other diseases, the relevant indexes are recommended to actively seek medical treatment by a professional doctor combined with the actual situation for interpretation.