Urinalysis Lab Report

Urinalysis also called urine test. This test can help find conditions that may need treatment or detect some common disease, urine test help find serious diseases in early stages. It may take before surgery or people at high risk for kidney problems, diabetes, liver problems or any other metabolic conditions.

Patients will be asked to pee in to a clean cup called specimen cup, urine test only require small amount of the urine. Usually they are two parts of urine test include. First part, visual exam. The sample of urine will be looked for color and cleanness, an infection may make urine look cloudy and smell bad. Urine found with blood and foamy can be the signs of kidney problems. Second part, dipstick test, dipstick is a thin stick with strips chemicals. Strips change color if substance is above normal range.
Neutral urine is 7, since if the urine with a pH below this number is categorized as acidic and urine with a higher pH is alkaline. pH is playing a important role in the development of renal calculi. Acidic urine will lead to xanthine, cystine uric acid, and calcium oxalate stones. However alkaline urine can cause calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and magnesium phosphate stones.
For protein, normally there will be no protein or only small amount of protein in the urine, Protein in the urine may be a sign of kidney disease. If the result finds positive of the protein in the urine, it should be followed by a 24-hour urine collection for examination. However, the dipstick test only can detect protein, but it cannot detect abnormal protein, for example globulins and Bence-Jones proteins found in multiple