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Boric Acid

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Preserves formed elements but interferes with pH reading, used to preserve urine for culture and sensitivity testing.

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Chloroform

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inhibits bacterial growth, causes changes in characteristics of cellular sediment, may be used in aldosterone testing.

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Chlorhexidine

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Inhibits bacterial growth, useful glucose preservative, stable for 72 hours, must be protected from light (affects bilirubin and urobilinogen)

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Formalin

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Preserves urinary sediment, and may precipitate protein and give a false-positive result for reducing substances.

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Preservative tablets

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Release formaldehyde, interferes with reducing substance at high concentration, increase specific gravity.

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Toulene

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Preserves ketones, proteins, and reducing substances. Not effective against bacteria present. Floats on the surface o urine and is flammable.

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Thymol

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rarely used, interferes with acid precipitation test fr protein but not reagent strip test.

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Polyuria

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Is when there is an excessive amount of urine at >3L/day

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Nocturia

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> 500ml of urine at night

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Oliguria

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<400ml of urine a day

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Anuria

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No urine output

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Urochrome

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Is a lipid soluble pigment that gives urine its characteristic color

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Urobilin

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Produces an orange/brown color

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Uroerythrin

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produces a pink color.

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Clinitest

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Detection of reducing substances

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Ictotest

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Detection of bilirubin

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Acetest

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Detection of Ketones

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Sulfosalicylic acid (SSA)

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Proteins

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Watson Schwartz

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Urobillinogen and Porphobilinogen

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Normal urine pH range

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4.5-8.0

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Methyl Red

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Acid indicator

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Bromthymol blue

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alkaline indicator

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Acidic Urine

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Diet (high protein, cranberry ingestion), sleep, acidifying drugs, diarrhea, metabolic acidosis, respiratory acidosis, UTI with acid producing bacteria E.coli.

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Alkaline Urine

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Diet (vegetarian, low carbohydrate diet, citrus fruits) Alkaline drugs, Acute and chronic renal failure, metabolic alkalosis, respiratory alkalosis, UTI with alkaline producing organism pseudomonas.

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Mucoprotein Tamm-Horsfall is

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secreted by renal tubules

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Tetrabromphenol blue

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most common indicator for protein (yellow to blue)

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Pre-renal proteinuria

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Is an increase in normal proteins-acute phase, hemoglobin, myoglobin
Abnormal light chain Bence Jones Protein

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Renal (glomerular proteinuria)

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Glomerular disease (damage), lupus , pre-eclempsia, streneous exercise, orthostatic.

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Postrenal proteinuria

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Inflammation anywhere in the urinary tract

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Physiological causes of increased protein

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Emotional stress, exercise, heat or cold exposure, pregnancy, fever

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Pathological causes of increased protein

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Glomerular nephritis, malignant hypertension, pyelonephritis, renal disease-loss of protein.

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Albuminuria can be an early detection of

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Kidney problems in diabetics as well as UTI’s

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Bence Jones Proteins

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Have monoclonal immunoglobulin light chains that are seen in multiple myeloma. Present when precipitation appears between 40-60 degrees Celsius. Confirm with electrophoresis.

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Glucose is normally contained in

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Glomerular ultrafiltrate and reabsorbed in the proximal tubule

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Ketosis

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Low level of ketones in the blood, normal process of the body, safe function of. A low carb ketogenic diet.

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Ketoacidosis

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Extremely high level of ketones in the blood, can turn the blood acidic, deadly if untreated, occurs in diabetics.

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Hematuria

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Intact RBCs in urine, in dilute urine RBC’s will lyse. (Pink, red, red/brown, smoky)

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Hemoglobin

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Urinary presence of of hemoglobin, as a result of intravascular hemolysis.

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Myoglobin

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Heme protein of striated muscle, released as a result of muscle damage.

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Bilirubin

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Is a highly pigmented yellow compound formed by the breakdown of hemoglobin, transported by albumin from blood to liver in order to be removed.

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Conjugated bilirubin

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May appear in urine when presence in plasma is exceeded.

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Urobilinogen

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Is formed bilirubin in the intestines

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Nitrate reducing bacteria reduce

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Nitrate to nitrite.

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Ascorbic acid forms

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Vitamin c-water voluble and obtained through dietary intake.

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