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I had to take a urine test and they said i had skin cells in my urine. is that bad?

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Urinalysis: It is not uncommon to find epithelial cells in the urinalyses of women. It is basically an indicator of how well the sample was collected, and does not in and of itself indicate anything serious.

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Answered 4/7/2016

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