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

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

NPN = Non-Protein Nitrogen !

moreless says[[[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 !]]]

This would explain a lot of some of my urine analysis in the past. I would have proteinurea according to the dipstick, but when urine was sent in for analysis, protein levels were within normal range. The test did not test for total nitrogen. Also the doc told me to drink a lot of water when I took the test, so the total volume I had was the only thing out of range.

What you said also raises some questions. The onset of foamy urine was pretty sudden for me. I noticed a lot of foam right about when I started to feel sick. The foam didn't seem to gradually increase, it was really foamy from the get-go, if I remember correctly. This was also when I had elevated serum iron and and low cholesterol, which I did not know about until years later when I requested for my medical records after switching doctors. This was also around the time when I had a large amount of mercury placed in my mouth.

If NPN comes mainly from dietary sources, then why the sudden dumping of nitrogen in the urine when total nitrogen intake from dietary sources did not vary from pre-illness levels? Perhaps a maximum nitrogen threshold was crossed and my body started to dump it out? Or that the mercury placed at the time caused my body's tolerance of NPN to lower? Tweet