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Home glucose testing vs urinalysis?

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Kae_Jae

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Hi everyone,

Hoping someone here can shine a light on this for me.

Does anyone know if urinalysis strips results can/should correlate with a home glucose monitor results?

For example, if someone is experiencing high readings in blood but the urine doesn't show anything at all, is that normal and par for the course with diabetes, or should the two tests marry up with one another in some way?

I know blood will always be more accurate, but I would have assumed if the readings were high it would show in urine, especially if the diabetes was untreated?

Any advice would be helpful, thanks! :)
 
Welcome to the forum. No idea. I use a glucose meter for blood. I used to use ketone stick for keytones but they are very unreliable and now have a meter for keytones. I don't see the purpose of urinalysis strips, but I may not understand them.
 
The glucose doesn't spill over into urine until the level in the blood is above about 10mmol/L so the strips are no use below that level, apart from being very inaccurate anyway.
 
xfieldok said:
Welcome to the forum. No idea. I use a glucose meter for blood. I used to use ketone stick for keytones but they are very unreliable and now have a meter for keytones. I don't see the purpose of urinalysis strips, but I may not understand them.
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Could I ask you which meter for blood measuring of ketones?
 
Back in the old days (I was diagnosed in 1970) pre glucometer, the only test available for diabetics was via urinalysis - put the tablet in a test tube, add 10 drops of water and 5 of urine, shake, and wait for 2 minutes (IIRC). I was encouraged to do mine at morning and night, and all it really did is tell my diabetic specialist when it was time to increase my dose (growing child). It was better than nothing, but didn't really tell you much than whether your blood sugar had been over 10 for the last few hours, or since you'd last emptied your bladder.

Personally, I used to use it to check my kids whenever I worried that they might be becoming diabetic (T1 daughter of T1 mother so I was a bit paranoid about my offspring), but not much use for my own care once glucometers were about. I do find ketostix mildly useful, because I'm only using them as a check to see whether I have a lot of ketones in my system, and blood testing ketone strips are very expensive.
 
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