URINE TEST FOR PROPER KIDNEY FUNCTIONING

[sumeet]

Hi all,
    This is sumeet 28years type-1 since 24/10/2002.
I want to know that many oamong u have done urine test for proper kidney functioning. Can anybody name all those tests so that I can also get that done.

Also I was 75kg before dibetes and now I am 53 kg. So please guide me how to gain weight ?

Need help......

Best Regards
Sumeet

[jmecus]

Hi there!

My daughter is 9 years old and has had juvenile diabetes for a year now. Her urine test came back that there are microprotiens in her urine. I am a little nervous about this. Any help would be great!

[sumeet]

Are we suppose to go empty stomach to the Lab to perform this test(Urine Microalbumin).

Regards
Sumeet

[sumeet]

Thanks for this great help.

Regards
Sumeet

[JDRF-Team-cd]

Sumeet,
Urine Microalbumin:
Microalbuminuria (persistent albumin in the urine) has been shown to be the earliest stage of diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease) in Type 1 diabetes and a marker for development of nephropathy in Type 2 diabetes.   Microalbuminuria is also a marker of increased cardiovascular disease.

An annual test for the presence of microalbumin should be done.

Talk to your diabetes educator/doctor about gaining weight.  You will probably need to eat a certain amount of calories each day and make sure your blood sugars are in the normal range.  Your weight loss may have been pre-diagnosis and once your blood sugars are in the normal range, you will be able to gain weight again.

[JDRF-Team-LRS]

Hello Sumeet,
One thing that can cause diabetics to lose weight is if our blood sugar is not well controlled.  If our blood sugar is high, that means that the sugars from the foods we eat is, essentially, "stuck" floating around in our blood stream.  The results of that is at least 2-fold:  first, the excess sugar is causing damage to our organs (kidneys, nervous system, eyes, vascular system) and second, the cells that NEED the sugar for fuel -- well, those cells simply are starving.  It's ironic -- all that sugar floating in the blood stream and little of it available to the cells.

So if we're experiencing high blood sugar all the time -- say 200 or more for days, weeks, months at a time, then we're slowing wasting away.  To begin to maintain a healthy weight requires hard work to gradually bring blood sugar into normal ranges most of the time.

Do you have access to an endocrinologist? I recommend you work with this type of physician soon, because they specialize in the treatment of diabetics.  Many of us find that Certified Diabetes Educators are a big help in working out daily details of managing this disease.

Here are some good websites with information on kidney function tests.  My endocrinologist orders some of these tests once a year for me.

This site has info on different tests:
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kidneytests/

This site has info on kidneys "in general" and may help you understand the connection between diabetes management and kidney health:
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/yourkidneys/

Good luck, Sumeet.  Do check back and remember that none of us here is a physician, so work closely with your physician to gain good control over your diabetes.