How do you read a urine glucose test?
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The side of the bottle should tell you how to read the test strip. If your talking about the ones that test glucose and ketones then the colors should match up on the side of the bottle, a peach color detecting none and a dark maroon color meaning a blood sugar of 240 mg/dl or more. The same applies for ketones if your test reads ketones and you have diabetes or not call a dr.
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What does the test result mean?\nHigh levels of glucose most frequently indicate diabetes, but many other diseases and conditions can also cause elevated glucose. The following information summarizes the meaning of the test results. These are based on the clinical practice recommendations of the American Diabetes Association.\n\nFasting Blood Glucose\nFrom 70 to 99 mg/dL (3.9 to 5.5 mmol/L) Normal glucose tolerance\nFrom 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L) Impaired fasting glucose (pre-diabetes)\n126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L) and above on more than one testing occasion Diabetes\n\nOral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)\n[except pregnancy]\n(2 hours after a 75-gram glucose drink)\nLess than 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) Normal glucose tolerance\nFrom 140 to 200 mg/dL (7.8 to 11.1 mmol/L) Impaired glucose tolerance (pre-diabetes)\nOver 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) on more than one testing occasion Diabetes\n\nGestational Diabetes Screening: Glucose Challenge Test\n(1 hour after a 50-gram glucose drink)\nLess than 140* mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) Normal glucose tolerance\n140* mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) and over Abnormal, needs OGTT (see below)\n* Some use a cutoff of >130 mg/dL (7.2 mmol/L) because that identifies 90% of women with gestational diabetes, compared to 80% identified using the threshold of >140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L).\n\n\nGestational Diabetes Diagnostic: OGTT\n(100-gram glucose drink)\nFasting* 95 mg/dL (5.3 mmol/L)\n1 hour after glucose load* 180 mg/dL (10.0 mmol/L)\n2 hours after glucose load* 155 mg/dL (8.6 mmol/L)\n3 hours after glucose load* ** 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L)\n* If two or more values are above the criteria, gestational diabetes is diagnosed.\n** A 75-gram glucose load may be used, although this method is not as well validated as the 100-gram OGTT; the 3-hour sample is not drawn if 75 grams is used.\n\nSome of the other diseases and conditions that can result in elevated glucose levels include:\n\n    * Acromegaly\n    * Acute stress (response to trauma, heart attack, and stroke for instance)\n    * Chronic renal failure\n    * Cushing syndrome\n    * Drugs, including: corticosteroids, tricyclic antidepressants, diuretics, epinephrine, estrogens (birth control pills and hormone replacement), lithium, phenytoin (Dilantin), salicylates,\n    * Excessive food intake\n    * Hyperthyroidism\n    * Pancreatic cancer\n    * Pancreatitis \n\nLow to non-detectible urine glucose results are considered normal. Anything that raises blood glucose levels also has the potential to elevate urine glucose levels. Increased urine glucose levels may be seen with medications, such as estrogens and chloral hydrate, and with some forms of renal disease.\n\nModerately increased levels may be seen with pre-diabetes. This condition, if left un-addressed, often leads to type 2 diabetes.\n\nLow glucose levels (hypoglycemia) are also seen with:\n\n    * Adrenal insufficiency\n    * Drinking alcohol\n    * Drugs, such as acetaminophen and anabolic steroids\n    * Extensive liver disease\n    * Hypopituitarism\n    * Hypothyroidism\n    * Insulin overdose\n    * Insulinomas (insulin-producing pancreatic tumors)\n    * Starvation \n\n\n\n\nIs there anything else I should know?\nHypoglycemia is characterized by a drop in blood glucose to a level where first it causes nervous system symptoms (sweating, palpitations, hunger, trembling, and anxiety), then begins to affect the brain (causing confusion, hallucinations, blurred vision, and sometimes even coma and death). An actual diagnosis of hypoglycemia requires satisfying the "Whipple triad." These three criteria include:\n\n    * Documented low glucose levels (less than 40 mg/dL (2.2 mmol/L) often tested along with insulin levels and sometimes with C-Peptide levels)\n    * Symptoms of hypoglycemia\n    * Reversal of the symptoms when blood glucose levels are returned to normal. \n\nPrimary hypoglycemia is rare and often diagnosed in infancy. People may have symptoms of hypoglycemia without really having low blood
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Glycosuria is common in both, but depends on the level. At a plasma glucose up to about 240 mg/dL (give or take a few), the Kidney reclaims all the glucose, so above that, the glucose spills into the urine and drags water with it. In IDDM, glucose easily goes above 240, but in NIDDM, it is possible that the glucose is only slightly elevated, such that glycosuria (and even polyuria) may not happen. This is why NIDDM has more complications at diagnosis - the glucose has been elevated long enough to cause DAMAGE, but not high enough to cause SYMPTOMS. In IDDM, the sugar rises high enough to cause symptoms, and quick enough to diagnose and treat BEFORE complications.\n\nMake sense?
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Have your blood tested for blood sugar level..etc, doctor will let you know
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Your normal blood sugar should be around 80-130 according to some sources. Another source that I found said between 70-115, but the 70 sounds a little low. It is different for every person as to what blood glucose concentration he / she can tolerate. Normally though, anything above the 120-130 range would indicate a high reading.
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Urine protein determinations are semi-quantitative and are achieved via error of pH indicators and is read by a process called colorimetric refractility determination.  Urine glucose is usually seni-quantitative but can be done in quantitative fassion as well.  The semi-quantitative methode uses glucose oxidase reagent and is read via colorimetric determination.  The quantitative methode also uses glucose oxidate reagent but is read via light impeedance of a spectrophotometer.
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check your sugar level or conslt a doctor
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Normal\nA blood glucose test measures the amount of a type of sugar, called glucose, in your blood. \n\nResults are usually available within 1 to 2 hours.\n\nBlood glucose  Fasting blood glucose:\n 70–99 milligrams per deciliter or less than 5.5 mmol/L\n \n2 hours after eating (postprandial):\n 70–145 mg/dL (less than 7.9 mmol/L)\n \nRandom (casual):\n 70–125 mg/dL (less than 7.0 mmol/L)\n \n\n \n\nNormal results may vary from lab to lab. Many conditions can change your blood glucose levels. Your health professional will discuss any significant abnormal results with you in relation to your symptoms and medical history. \n\nHigh values\nThe American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria for diagnosing diabetes are met when any of the following results have been repeated on at least two different days: \nA fasting blood glucose level is 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L) or higher.\nA 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test result is 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) or higher. For more information, see the medical test Oral Glucose Tolerance Test. \nSymptoms of diabetes are present and a random blood glucose test is 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) or higher. Symptoms of diabetes include increased thirst and frequent urination (especially at night), unexplained increase in appetite, unexplained weight loss, fatigue, erection problems, blurred vision, and tingling or numbness in the hands or feet.\nIf your fasting blood glucose level is between 100 mg/dL (5.5 mmol/L) and 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L), you are considered to have prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose), and you have an increased chance of getting diabetes. \nOther conditions that can cause high blood glucose levels include severe stress, heart attack, stroke, Cushing's syndrome, medications such as corticosteroids, cancers, or excess production of growth hormone (acromegaly). \nLow values\nA fasting glucose level below 40 mg/dL (2.2 mmol/L) in women or below 50 mg/dL (2.8 mmol/L) in men that is accompanied by symptoms of hypoglycemia may mean you have an insulinoma, a tumor that produces abnormally high amounts of insulin.\n\nLow glucose levels also may be caused by:\n\nAddison's disease. \nDecreased thyroid hormone levels (hypothyroidism). \nA tumor in the pituitary gland. \nLiver disease, such as cirrhosis. \nKidney failure. \nMalnutrition or an eating disorder, such as anorexia. \nMedications used to treat diabetes. \nWhat Affects the Test \n\nReasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:\n\nEating or drinking less than 8 hours before a fasting blood test or less than 2 hours before a 2-hour postprandial test. \nDrinking alcohol. \nIllness or emotional stress, smoking, and caffeine. \nTaking a medication, such as birth control pills, medications used to treat high blood pressure, phenytoin (Dilantin), furosemide (Lasix), triamterene (Dyrenium, Dyazide), hydrochlorothiazide (Esidrix, Hydro Par, Oretic), niacin, propranolol (Inderal), or corticosteroids (prednisone) can cause changes in your test results. Make sure that your doctor knows about any medicines you take and how often you take them.\n\nWhat To Think About \n\nOther tests are needed to accurately diagnose diabetes. A blood glucose test may not identify some people with prediabetes or early diabetes. Many experts recommend using a glucose tolerance test if the result of a fasting blood glucose test is between 100 mg/dL (5.5 mmol/L) and 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L). This range is above the normal range but below the range that indicates diabetes. For more information, see the medical test Oral Glucose Tolerance Test. \nGlucose levels in urine also can be measured. Many people with diabetes have glucose in their urine. However, the level in the blood must be very high before glucose can be detected in the urine. For this reason, tests for glucose in urine are not used to diagnose or monitor diabetes. For more information, see the medical test Urine Test. \nIf you have diabetes, you will be able to
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Firstly, it should be done by a healthcare professional...either a doctor or a diabetic nurse.  It is calculated based on individual response. So it is really a guess game. You give some insulin, see what a sugar value is in several hours and adjust based on that.  After several days, you arrive at a reasonable dose.  Hope this helps, but don't try this on your own :).
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Get checked!  There are kits you can get that will test your blood, you prick your finger and test your blood sugar.  Don't let it go, it could lead to more serious problems!
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of course, there is a gelatin pectin called CERTO which u can buy at a grocery store in the jelly aisle. only cost 2.50 for two packets all u need is one an hour before the test and drink lots of water. try to pee at least 3 times before u do the UA
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Protein in urine\nWhen protein is found during a urine test, further investigation is required to ascertain your true health status. Using a urine test is a quick and inexpensive way to check for protein in your urine, and is one of our test kit products that can be done in the privacy of your home.\n\nNormal protein range in urine\n0 - 150 mg/dl \n\nMeasuring range \n0 - > 2000 mg/dl \n\nProtein levels in urine \nabnormal value - greater than 150 mg/dl. \n\nAbnormal protein values may indicative of \nProteinuria may be benign or pathological \n\nBenign proteinuria \n\npostural \n\nexcessive exercise \n\nhigh or low temperature \n\nduring pregnancy \n\nPathological proteinuria \n\nExternal \n\ncolic \n\nliver cirrhosis \n\nplasmacytoma \n\ncardiac insufficiency \n\nRenal \n\npyelonephritis \n\nglomerulonephritis \n\nFurther action required if protein is found in urine\ncheck your urine for \n\nspecific gravity \n\nleucocytes/white blood cells \n\nnitrites \n\npH \n\nblood/hemoglobin (haemoglobin) \n\nOur protein urine test strip\nThe test incorporates a pH indicator which changes color in the presence of protein. \n\nAny green color that develops is due to the presence of protein. \n\nThe test is highly sensitive to albumin, and less sensitive to hemoglobin (haemoglobin), globulin and mucoprotein. \n\nNormal urine of high specific gravity may cause higher than normal readings, as will highly buffered urine, alkaline urine (equal or larger than 9) and urine containing residues of chlorhexidine or quaternary ammonia compounds. \n\nSensitivity: 10 mg/dl albumin \n\nActive reagent: tetrabromophenol blue (1% w/w).
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odds are, that your blood glucose is elevated. Once you get on metformin and get your BG back down to the 100s, the urine will return to a straw color.  When your blood sugar gets just so high, your kidneys start dumping sugar thru the urine.\nPersonal experience.   Dxd 2/06 as Type 2 by docs at MDACC with A1c of 9.5% and BG of 305.    now down to 105s.\neveryone over 55 should have a fasting Blood sugar test done one or twice a year.
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your blood sugar is really high, and when it gets high to a certain point the sugar gets into your urine, and the sugar absorbs water out of your body so it makes you pee more so you have to drink more to make up for the water you lose
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As no one else has had a go, i will. \n\nCellulase should produce glucose, so you are needing a method to analyse the amount of glucose formed. \n\nIf you have access to a blood glucose monitor, this would be the simplest way. Otherwise, the reaction between glucose and Benedicts solution is quantitative, and you could weigh the amount of Cu2O formed.
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what kind of glucometer machine do you have?? Every machine is different. I have a One touch and I use strips and once the correct steps are followed I obtain my sugar level. No machines don't get blood into them unless inproper steps have happened.
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You are referring to a blood glucose meter, which is a device that measure the amount of sugar in the blood. Diabetes is an illness that is caused by malfunction of the pancreas. The pancreas distributes natural insulin to the blood to maintain healthy blood sugar levels.The symptom that is most easily detected is high or low (hyperglcymic or hypoglycymic) blood sugar. High blood sugar will cause you to be extremely thirsty, feel tired, and to urinate frequently. Low blood sugar will generally make you feel woozy, clammy, and unstable.\n     Diabetes is a horrible illness because it damages your body without you necessarily feeling it. Diabetes can lead to liver problems, blindness, amputation of limbs due to poor circulation, heart problems, and a whole slew of other medical problems. Get checked ASAP!!!