--answer--Can NPN be tested on urine with Urine Sticks?

Hi WIEL,

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Is is possible to test directly NPN through the urine with some urine multi regents test sticks?


From http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/urine-test

Urine Test


A urine test checks different components of urine, a waste product made bythe kidneys. A regular urine test may be done to help find the cause of symptoms. The test can give information about your health and problems you may have.
The take out waste material, minerals, fluids, and other substances from the blood to be passed in the urine. Urine has hundreds of different body wastes. What you eat, drink, how much you exercise, and how well your kidneys work can affect what is in your urine.
More than 100 different tests can be done on urine. A regular urinalysis often includes the following tests.
pH. The pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline (basic) the urine is. A urine pH of 4 is strongly acidic, 7 is neutral (neither acidic nor alkaline), and 9 is strongly alkaline. Sometimes the pH of urine is affected by certain treatments. For example, your doctor may instruct you how to keep your urine either acidic or alkaline to prevent some typesof kidney stones from forming.
Protein. Protein is normally not found in the urine. Fever, hard exercise, pregnancy, and some diseases, especially kidney disease, may cause protein to be in the urine.
Glucose. Glucose is the type of sugar found in blood. Normally there is very little or no glucose in urine. When the blood sugar level is very high, as in uncontrolled diabetes, the sugar spills over into the urine. Glucose can also be found in urine when the kidneys are damaged or diseased.
Nitrites. Bacteria that causea urinary tract infection (UTI) make an enzyme that changes urinary nitrates to nitrites. Nitrites in urine show a UTI is present.
Leukocyte esterase (WBC esterase). Leukocyte esterase shows leukocytes (white blood cells [WBCs]) in the urine. WBCs in the urine may mean a UTI is present.
Ketones. When fat is broken down for energy, the body makes substances called ketones (or ketone bodies). These are passed in the urine. Large amounts of ketones in the urine may mean a very seriouscondition, diabetic ketoacidosis, is present. A diet low in sugars and starches (carbohydrates), starvation, or severe vomiting may also cause ketones to be in the urine.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/644789/nitrite_in_your_urine_its_mea...

Nitrite is a byproduct of harmful bacteria. Nitrite from the bacteria in your body will not be filtered out through the kidneys, the organs that help clean blood and generate urine. However, nitrite can be collected in your urine as it moves from the kidneys, down the ureters and into the bladder. Since nitrite is almost always picked up in the urinary tract when nitrite is present, it indicates a urinary tract infection, or UTI.

Urinary tract infections are caused by bacteria that have made it into you urinary tract. The most common culprit is E. Coli, a bacteria found in feces. If bacteria makes its way past your bodies defenses and into your urethra (the last tube before urine is expelled from the body), it will begin to incubate and cause an infection. Since it does take time for bacteria to grow and incubate, a doctor will likely request you give him a first-morning urine sample, or the first urination when you get out of bed. If nitrite and leukocytes are both present in this sample, the diagnosis will be a UTI.


http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/urine_protein/test.html


Urine Protein and Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio

How is it used?

Urine protein testing is used to detect protein in the urine, to help evaluate and monitor kidney function, and to help detect and diagnose early kidney damage and disease. A semi-quantitative test such as a dipstick urine protein is used to screen the general population for the presence of protein in the urine as part of a routine urinalysis. If slight to moderate amounts of protein are detected, then a repeat urinalysis and dipstick protein may be performed at a later time to see if there is still protein in the urine or if it has dropped back to undetectable levels. If there is a large amount of protein in the first sample and/or the protein persists in the second sample, then a 24-hour urine protein may be used as a follow-up test. Since the dipstick primarily measures albumin, the 24-hour urine protein test also may be ordered if a doctor suspects that proteins other than albumin are being released.

The urine protein test tells the doctor that protein is present in the urine, but it does not indicate which types are present or the cause of the proteinuria. When a doctor is investigating the reason, he also may order a serum and urine protein electrophoresis test to determine which proteins are being excreted and in what quantities. This is especially true if he suspects abnormal protein production, such as with multiple myeloma. He may order a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP) to look at albumin and total protein levels in the blood and to help evaluate kidney and liver function.

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WIEL


Answer: 1st we need to Fully understand what NPN may represent !

NPN = Non-Protein Nitrogen !

This means NPN is any form of Nitrogen that is not Complexed as a Complete Protein !

What is a Complete Protein?

A Complete Protein may be Nitrogen bound with Live Carbons and the needed Alkaline Minerals with the needed Acids !

Thus any test of the urine that will test for Nitrogen alone may show NPN !

As the body should be able to Digest Complete Proteins, whereas it may try to pass Excess Nitrogen !

The easiest way to know if we may be having Excess NPN may be if our urine smells like Ammonia and or Bubbles !

Generally if it Bubbles this may be from the Excess Nitrogen reacting against the Magnesium in the Air Causing the Nitrogen to Vaporize as a Gas into the Air !

Cause and Effect !

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