Edit this page

Urine glucose level:

Urine (pee) is made by organs in your body called the kidneys. Kidneys act as filters in your body as they remove all the junk and waste from your blood and send it out with your urine (urine can be thought of as liquid waste from your body). During this cleaning process, the kidneys remove almost everything, both good and bad, from the blood. From this point they send all the good things (sugar being one of them) back into the blood and send all of the bad things (waste products) out into the urine. Normally this is easily performed by your kidneys and no sugar is lost into the urine. However, in Diabetes there is so much sugar in your blood that the kidneys do not have time to remove it all from the urine and put it back into the blood once it is filtered out. As a result, sugar is lost into the urine and can be measured on a urine test. Generally, any sugar at all in the urine is an alarm to your doctor to test for Diabetes.

This test is not generally used to diagnose Diabetes, but rather is more of a screen. If sugar is found to be in your urine, you should have other tests performed to diagnose Diabetes such as a Fasting blood sugar level or a Glucose tolerance test.

Edit this page