If your dehydrated; urine test is it infection or dehydration?!


Question: If your dehydrated; urine test is it infection or dehydration!?
Can your doctor mistake your urine test as an infection especially when they mark it with a !?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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"If your (you're) dehydrated; (,) urine test is it infection or dehydration!?"

This question is rather difficult to understand!. What are you asking!? And what does "!.!.especially when they mark it with a!?" mean!?!?!? And why would you be told not to drink anything for 14-15 hours!?!?!? Who told you to do this!? Explain!. Even with a fasting test, people are instructed to drink water!.

Dehydration cannot be confused with infection!. With dehydration, the urine will be dark yellow or orange and concentrated!. With infection, the urine may be cloudy or full of mucus and/or sediments but the color will be close to normal!. Dehydration makes the odor stronger but still normal!. Infection makes the odor foul or smelling strongly of ammonia!. As for the other urinalysis elements, they're not the same for dehydration and infection either!.

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Urine when you are dehydrated contains no more white blood cells, blood or mucus than urine when you are properly hydrated, and white blood cells, blood, and mucus are what the test tries to find!. So, if your test was positive for infection, then you do have an infection!.

Take all the medication as prescribed and drink plenty of fluids - especially water - and it will help the body flush out the infection!.

To try to prevent future infections, you need to drink plenty of water every day!. Sometimes drinking cranberry juice (or taking a cranberry supplement - found near the vitamins) may help!. Always urinate before and after intercourse, and bathe regularly!. If you have a yeast infection or bacterial vaginosis, avoid intercourse until it has cleared up!.

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Dehydration (hypohydration) is the removal of water (hydro in ancient Greek) from an object!. In physiological terms, it entails a relative deficiency of water molecules in relation to other dissolved solutes!. Dehydration, thus, is slightly different from hypovolemia, which defines water deficiency only in terms of overall volume rather than in terms of solute concentrations
In humans, dehydration can be caused by a wide range of diseases and states that impair water homeostasis in the body!. These include:

External or stress-related causes
Prolonged physical activity without consuming adequate water, especially in a hot and/or humid environment
Prolonged exposure to dry air, e!.g!. in high-flying airplanes (5-15% relative humidity)
Survival situations, especially desert conditions
Blood loss or hypotension due to physical trauma
Diarrhea
Hyperthermia
Shock (hypovolemic)
Vomiting
Burns
Lacrimation
Use of Methamphetamine and other stimulants!.
Drinking of Alcohol!.
Infectious diseases
Cholera
Gastroenteritis
Shigellosis
Yellow fever
Malnutrition
Electrolyte disturbance
Hypernatremia (also caused by dehydration)
Hyponatremia, especially from restricted salt diets Fasting
Recent rapid weight loss may reflect progressive depletion of fluid volume (the loss of 1 L of fluid results in a weight loss of 1 kg or 2!.2 lb)!.
Patient refusal of nutrition and hydration
Other causes of obligate water loss
Severe hyperglycemia, especially in Diabetes mellitus
Glycosuria
Symptoms may include headaches similar to what is experienced during a hangover, muscle cramps, a sudden episode of visual snow, decreased blood pressure (hypotension), and dizziness or fainting when standing up due to orthostatic hypotension!. Untreated dehydration generally results in delirium, unconsciousness, swelling of the tongueWww@Answer-Health@Com

If you have an infection, there will likely be white blood cells in your urine!. Dehydration will not cause white blood cells to be present!. It will be pretty difficult to mistake something for an infection when there isn't one!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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