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How is a urinalysis test related to type 1 diabetes?
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Sugar runs thru you: The term diabetes mellitus translated means: sugar runs thru you. In years before labs the doc could smell the sweet odor on a diametics breath & verify their suspicion by touching a dab of their urine to their tongue. If your sugar lever is up it spills into the pee and a urinalysis can pick it up.
Answered 10/4/2016
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Was used to..: Monitor diabetes control in past, but not patients do fingerstick sugar testing urines though are still used to check for 'ketones' by the patient, a warning that sugar is very poorly controlled, may have 'ketoacidosis, need to go to emergency room!
Answered 12/23/2012
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