gangadharan nair - Glycosuria or glucosuria is the excretion of glucose into the urine. Ordinarily, urine contains no glucose because the kidneys are able to reclaim all of the filtered glucose back into the bloodstream. Glycosuria is nearly always caused by elevated blood glucose levels, most commonly due to untreated diabetes mellitus. Rarely, glycosuria is due to an intrinsic problem with glucose reabsorption within the kidneys themselves, a condition termed renal glycosuria. Renal glycosuria, also known as renal glucosuria, is a rare condition in which the simple sugar glucose is excreted in the urine despite normal or low blood glucose levels. Glucose is not usually found in urine. If it is, further testing is needed. Normal glucose range in urine: 0 - 0.8 mmol/l (0 - 15 mg/dL) Greater than normal levels of glucose may occur with: * Diabetes, although blood glucose tests are needed to diagnose diabetes. Small increases in urine glucose levels after a large meal are not always a cause for concern. * A rare condition in which glucose is released from the kidneys into the urine, even when blood glucose levels are normal (renal glycosuria) * Pregnancy -- up to half of women will have glucose in their urine at some point during pregnancy. Glucose in the urine may mean that a woman has gestational diabetes. Glucose will only show up in the urine once it has reached high levels in the blood. As a result, a glucose urine test is not useful for helping a person monitor and control their diabetes.
Dr Frank - One possible explanation is a low renal threshold for sugar, sometimes known as a sugar leak. It is not pathological and is one of the many reasons why urine testing is now seldom used to assess diabetes.
Justin - Have you performed a urinalysis?
ReplyDeleteI would assume the glucose levels are normal because the excess is being excreted through urine. Have the doctor check for kidney problems.
gangadharan nair - Glycosuria or glucosuria is the excretion of glucose into the urine. Ordinarily, urine contains no glucose because the kidneys are able to reclaim all of the filtered glucose back into the bloodstream. Glycosuria is nearly always caused by elevated blood glucose levels, most commonly due to untreated diabetes mellitus. Rarely, glycosuria is due to an intrinsic problem with glucose reabsorption within the kidneys themselves, a condition termed renal glycosuria.
ReplyDeleteRenal glycosuria, also known as renal glucosuria, is a rare condition in which the simple sugar glucose is excreted in the urine despite normal or low blood glucose levels.
Glucose is not usually found in urine. If it is, further testing is needed.
Normal glucose range in urine: 0 - 0.8 mmol/l (0 - 15 mg/dL)
Greater than normal levels of glucose may occur with:
* Diabetes, although blood glucose tests are needed to diagnose diabetes. Small increases in urine glucose levels after a large meal are not always a cause for concern.
* A rare condition in which glucose is released from the kidneys into the urine, even when blood glucose levels are normal (renal glycosuria)
* Pregnancy -- up to half of women will have glucose in their urine at some point during pregnancy. Glucose in the urine may mean that a woman has gestational diabetes.
Glucose will only show up in the urine once it has reached high levels in the blood. As a result, a glucose urine test is not useful for helping a person monitor and control their diabetes.
syeda n - Low kidney threshhold
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Prediabetic
Dr Frank - One possible explanation is a low renal threshold for sugar, sometimes known as a sugar leak. It is not pathological and is one of the many reasons why urine testing is now seldom used to assess diabetes.
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