Urinalysis - What is in your wee?

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

Dr. Mike Todorovic

Physiology, Physiotherapy, Health & Fitness, University, Science, Nursing, Education, Health, Anatomy, Medicine

4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Matt & Dr Mike explore what information can be gathered from your wee! They review colour, smell, taste(?!), specific gravity, pH, glucose, ketones, red blood cells, proteins, nitrites, white blood cells, and bilirubin/urobilinogen.

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0:00.0	What are you doing?
0:10.7	What does it look like I'm doing?
0:13.4	Are you urinating to my coffee cup?
0:16.2	Yes.
0:18.1	Why?
0:19.6	I'm sending it off to be tested. I'm doing a urinalysis, Matthew.
0:27.4	Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's medical podcast. I'm Dr. Mike
0:32.6	Todorovich. I'm joined by my co-host, Dr. Matthew James Lorraine, Franklin Barton, and we are both here today
0:38.0	to talk about your analysis. I think I spilled some water on the microphone. I think the audience
0:43.9	heard you scrape, trying to scrape it away. How are you, Matt? Good, thank you. Sorry about
0:49.3	ruining your coffee mug there. Yes. But at least, uh, at least we've got something to send away for testing. At least the days of
0:57.6	having to taste it are past us and we can... Wait a minute. I wasn't
1:02.1	supposed to drink that? No. No. It did taste nice and sweet.
1:06.8	Well, that is a test that we can talk about. Oh, sweetness of urine.
1:11.3	Beautiful.
1:12.4	Sounds delicious.
1:13.6	I'm sure everyone's looking forward to that.
1:15.2	So today we're talking about a urinalysis,
1:18.0	urinalysis, a test of the urine, testing many different things.
1:23.0	Straight off the bat.
1:24.6	Why would we want to test our pee?
1:28.0	Okay, so well, firstly, I think urine is a good indication of plasma, which is about 55% of our blood is plasma.
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