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• Urine is a typically sterile liquid by-product of the body secreted by the kidneys.
• Major composition of urine is water (97%). Other component of urine are organic & inorganic
compounds like urea,bilirubin, ammonium chloride and salts of calcium & potassium .Also they
excrete excess hormones & vitamins
What is Urinalysis? :
• It is the series of test done on urine. It is the one of the most common method of medical
diagnostic.
Why Urinalysis
Most of the blood constituents are present in urine. Most of the body wastes
are brought to kidney for filtration. Hence the body ailment can be located
through this analysis.
Most of the bacteria and viruses are discharged from our body through
urine.
Preservation of Urine :
1. Physical Preservation:
2. Chemical preservation :
Procedure
Physical Examination :
Urine sample
Benedict’s solution
Fehling’s solution – 1
Fehling’s solution – 2
Sodium hydroxide
Borsch’s reagent
Ethanol
Test tubes
ChemicalExamination :
O Protein Test :
O Phenol test :
Used to test the presence of phenol based compounds present in urine .
Examination:Mixing the given urine soln. With neutral FeCl3. A light violet
colouring is observed .
O Amine test:
This test is used to detect the type of amino group that is excreted through
urine . These amines may be primary (1), secondary(2), tertiary(3) .
Examination
i) The given sample of urine is taken in a test tube .To the soln.
Alcoholic KOH is added along with CHCl3 . A foul smelling gas
poisonous gas is released (R-CN) . This indicates that the given
urine has the presence of 1amine . If there is no smell , then
1amine is absent .
Examination :