Kidney Health Screen
Understanding Kidney Health Screen
What is Kidney Health Screen?
Kidney Health Screen includes tests to evaluate the function of your kidney. You should get this test done if you have symptoms that may indicate a kidney disorder like painful urination, blood in urine, frequent urges to urinate, high blood pressure, swelling of hands and feet. You may also need kidney function testing if you have other conditions that can harm the kidneys like diabetes or high blood pressure.
What is Kidney Health Screen used for?
- As a part of preventive health check-up
- If you have signs or symptoms of kidney diseases like swelling or puffiness around the eyes, face, wrists, bloody urine, difficolt, painfol urination, mid back pain
- If you have risk factors for kidney disease like high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, cardiovasclolar disease, obesity, elevated cholesterol or a family history of kidney disease
- If you are being treated for kidney disease for monitoring purposes
What does Kidney Health Screen measure?
Contains 18 testsUric Acid
Serum Calcium
A Serum Calcium test measures the levels of calcium in the body. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body, and the majority of it is present in the bones and teeth, and the remaining portion (around 1%) is found in the blood. It is normally present in two forms in blood in about equal amounts, namely "bound calcium", which is attached to proteins in the blood, and "free calcium or ionized calcium", which is not attached to any protein.
A Serum Calcium test cannot be used to check for a lack of calcium in your diet or osteoporosis (loss of calcium from bones) as the body can have normal calcium levels even in case of dietary deficiency of calcium. Moreover, the body can normalize mild calcium deficiency by releasing the calcium stored in bones.
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Urea/ Blood Urea Nitrogen
Urine R/M (Urine Routine & Microscopy)
A Urine R/M (Urine Routine & Microscopy) test involves gross, chemical, and microscopic evaluation of the urine sample.
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Gross examination: It involves the visual examination of the urine sample for color and appearance. Normally, the urine color ranges from colorless or pale yellow to deep amber, depending on the urine’s concentration. Things such as medications, supplements, and some foods such as beetroot can affect the color of your urine. However, unusual urine color can also be a sign of disease.
In appearance, the urine sample may be clear or cloudy. A clear appearance is indicative of healthy urine. However, the presence of red blood cells, white blood cells, bacteria, etc. may result in cloudy urine, indicating conditions such as dehydration, UTIs, kidney stones, etc. Some other factors such as sperm and skin cells may also result in a cloudy appearance but are harmless.
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Chemical examination: It examines the chemical nature of the urine sample using special test strips called dipsticks. These test strips are dipped into the urine sample and they change color when they come in contact with specific substances. The degree of color change gives an estimate of the amount of the substance present. Some of the common things detected include protein, urine pH, ketones, glucose, specific gravity, blood, nitrites, and urobilinogen among others.
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Microscopic examination: It involves the examination of the urine sample under the microscope for casts, crystals, cells, bacteria, and yeast.
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This further contains
- Urobilinogen
- Ketone
- Nitrite
- Colour
- Appearance
- Specific Gravity
- Pus Cell
- Epithelial Cell
- Casts
- Crystals
- Protein Urine
- Ph for Urine
- Urine Glucose
- Yeast
Interpreting Kidney Health Screen results
Interpretations
- Urea/ BUN - High levels suggest impaired kidney function caused by acute or chronic kidney disease or rarely due to some other conditions like congestive heart failure or dehydration
- Creatinine - High levels suggest impaired kidney function
- Calcium - Low levels may be seen with kidney failure
- Albumin - Low blood level may indicate that the kidneys cannot prevent albumin from leaking out
- Glucose - High blood level indicate diabetes, which is an important cause of kidney disease
- Uric acid: Higher than normal levels of uric acid in the blood is called Hyperuricemia and may be caused due to kidney diseases, gout, chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment.
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Urine Routine & MIcroscopy: It includes various tests that detect cells, cell fragments and substances such as crystals or casts in the urine associated with the various conditions
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