Have you always wondered why you had your urine tests tested when you were admitted to the hospital? It’s just the healthcare workers doing their job and getting a baseline sample for future health assessments.
And what is the reason for this kind of test? Simple!
Your make-up urine can drastically change content, color, or odor, in reaction to a specific illness. Whether it’s excess protein, blood, or sugar, urine testing analyzes urine content that is not usually there due to particular diseases.
And there are lots of metabolic health information contained in the urine. So, healthcare workers can rely on urine test results to analyze and diagnose specific illnesses in your body regularly.
What are urine tests?
A urine test or urinalysis is a simple method useful for diagnosing and monitoring a person’s health status by analyzing an individual’s urine sample. It is a standard testing method in healthcare, and it’s highly useful in assessing kidney and liver functioning. It is also used in common illnesses such as diabetes, as it helps indicates the blood sugar level by analyzing the amount of sugar in the urine.
How To Carry Out Urine Test?
The traditional urine lab testing equipment includes test strips, tissue, stopwatch, non-sterile gloves, clinical waste bags, and finally, your urine specimen. You can also add a pen and a report book to the list.
- After assembling the testing equipment, wash your hands, and apply gloves.
- Remove a test strip from the container and immerse the strip’s full length in the urine sample.
- Place the test strip on the tissue, prevent the pads from contaminating, and start the timer.
- After the specified amount of time has passed, place the test pad at a safe but close distance to the test strip container’s result gauge.
- Record the test result in a medical report or journal and report any abnormal development to the doctor.
- Finally, dispose of the equipment in the clinical waste bag and sanitize your hands.
You may see several strip results ranging from varying glucose levels, protein, ketones, blood, white blood cells, specific gravity, bilirubin, and urobilinogen to pH.
But you should know that medications may also affect the test results as they can be excreted as waste products in the urine. For instance, if you’re taking antibiotics, your urine may smell odd or show an unusual color.
Smart Urine Testing Innovations
Like health diagnosis using smartphones, a smart urinalysis will enable continuous and unlimited access to up-to-date data and real-time diagnosis during pee time. With advances in smart toilets, urinalysis can be done in real-time, and health status can be immediately tracked and reported.
Smart toilets will be able to sample urine when you use the toilet and measure samples with a mass spectrometer. The data will then transmit to the patient’s smartphone, connected to the server where doctors could monitor their health status. Instead of flushing the millions of useful heath data down the toilet, you’ll be able to measure and analyze the data to improve your health.
Smart toilet installations in homes will be able to sample urine and detect medications and food consumables’ metabolism. And if such urinalysis is on a large scale, there is the possibility of meta-scale urine testing and determining primary population health data.
Smartphones and Smart Test-strips
Using smart AI technology and high-quality smartphone imaging devices, you can create your urine test results and digital footprint. Application software can use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to carry out medical tests and store data in the cloud.
For instance, Healthy.io is a smartphone app you can use to perform urine tests and diagnose chronic kidney disease right in the comfort of your home. The app comes with a Dip.io kit for urine sample collection that is usually analyzed using imaging technology through your smartphone camera.
These urine testing innovations will make the urine collection process and analysis simple, affordable, frequent, and accurate.
How Smart Urine Testing Is Revolutionizing Healthcare
Diagnosis and testing go beyond the age and time of using X-rays for broken bones or taking incessant blood samples. Today, smart healthcare services are becoming needed in the world. And smart healthcare is all about being able to intercept diseases and illnesses early and prevent or manage them. These innovations will mean the end of the systemic era of inaccurate and delayed diagnosis.
So, when people say ‘smart’ in the healthcare context, they mean a world where we could continuously monitor and track our health around the clock with portable devices. Or we could quickly assess and forecast potential illness with our everyday devices such as wristwatches, smartphones, or even toilets.
Today, wearable devices such as smartwatches can help you monitor and diagnose specific health conditions. We also have implantable devices such as defibrillators that can monitor internal conditions such as heart functioning. Also, lab engineers are currently working on developing smart bras using infrared light and sound to detect minuscule breast tumors to be removed early on.
Patients can easily carry out urine testing on a step-by-step basis. It automatically sends test results to their electronic medical database or server for clinical follow-up. With smart urine testing, patients can conduct self-diagnosis within the comfort of their homes, detect illness, and seek urgent care. Smart urine testing can improve positive health outcomes through early and ongoing diagnosis. Besides, it reduces the cost of treatment common with late-stage illness.
Whether through smart toilets, smart test strips, or even smartphones, smart urinalysis is changing the future of healthcare.
And it has come to stay!
PS: But these smart innovations are not immune from error, from generating false negatives and false positives. Smart urine tests do not entirely substitute frequent medical check-ups and lab tests.
Je, umewahi kujiuliza kwa nini ulichunguzwa mkojo wakati ulipolazwa hospitalini? Ni wafanyakazi wa huduma za afya tu kufanya kazi yao na kupata sampuli ya msingi kwa ajili ya tathmini ya afya ya baadaye. Na ni nini sababu ya aina hii ya mtihani? Ni rahisi! Mkojo wako wa kujibadilisha unaweza kubadilisha sana yaliyomo, rangi, au harufu, kwa sababu ya ugonjwa fulani. Iwe ni protini nyingi, damu, au sukari, upimaji wa mkojo huchanganua kiasi cha mkojo ambacho kwa kawaida hakipatikani kwa sababu ya magonjwa fulani. Kuna habari nyingi za kimetaboliki katika mkojo. Kwa hivyo, wafanyikazi wa huduma za afya wanaweza kutegemea matokeo ya mtihani wa mkojo kuchambua na kugundua magonjwa maalum katika mwili wako mara kwa mara. Uchunguzi wa mkojo ni nini? Uchunguzi wa mkojo ni njia rahisi ya kugundua na kufuatilia hali ya afya ya mtu kwa kuchanganua sampuli ya mkojo ya mtu. Ni njia ya kawaida ya kupima katika huduma ya afya, na ni muhimu sana katika kutathmini figo na ini kazi. Pia hutumiwa katika magonjwa ya kawaida kama vile kisukari, kwani husaidia kuonyesha kiwango cha sukari ya damu kwa kuchambua kiasi cha sukari katika mkojo. Jinsi ya Kufanya Uchunguzi wa Mkojo? Vifaa vya kawaida vya majaribio ya mkojo ni pamoja na vipande vya majaribio, tishu, saa ya kusimamisha, kinga zisizo za sterili, mifuko ya taka ya kliniki, na mwishowe, sampuli yako ya mkojo. Unaweza pia kuongeza kalamu na kitabu cha ripoti kwenye orodha hiyo. - Baada ya kukusanya vifaa vya kupima, osha mikono yako, na tumia glavu. - Kuondoa mstari wa mtihani kutoka chombo na kuzamisha mstari wa urefu kamili katika sampuli ya mkojo. - Weka mstari wa mtihani kwenye tishu, kuzuia pads kutoka uchafuzi, na kuanza timer. - Baada ya kiasi maalum cha muda imepita, kuweka pad mtihani katika salama lakini karibu umbali kwa chombo mtihani strip ya matokeo gauge. - Rekodi matokeo ya mtihani katika ripoti ya matibabu au jarida na ripoti maendeleo yoyote ya kawaida kwa daktari. - Mwishowe, tupa vifaa katika mfuko wa taka za kliniki na kuosha mikono yako. Matokeo ya mfululizo wa vipimo vya damu ni tofauti: viwango vya sukari, protini, ketoni, damu, chembe nyeupe za damu, uzito maalum, bilirubin, na urobilinogen. Lakini unapaswa kujua kwamba dawa pia zinaweza kuathiri matokeo ya mtihani kwani zinaweza kutolewa kama bidhaa za taka katika mkojo. Kwa mfano, ikiwa unachukua viuavijasumu, mkojo wako waweza kuwa na harufu isiyo ya kawaida au kuonyesha rangi isiyo ya kawaida. Utafiti wa mkojo wa smart, kama vile utambuzi wa afya kwa kutumia simu mahiri, utafutaji wa mkojo wa smart utawezesha ufikiaji wa kuendelea na usio na kikomo wa data ya sasa na utambuzi wa wakati halisi wakati wa kukohoa. Kwa maendeleo katika vyoo smart, mkojo kuchunguzwa inaweza kufanyika katika muda halisi, na hali ya afya inaweza mara moja kufuatiliwa na kuripotiwa. Vifaa vya kuosha vya smart vinaweza kuchukua sampuli ya mkojo wakati wa kutumia choo na kupima sampuli na spectrometer ya wingi. Takwimu hizo zitapelekwa kwenye simu ya mkononi ya mgonjwa, iliyounganishwa na seva ambapo madaktari wangeweza kufuatilia hali ya afya yake. Badala ya kuondoa mamilioni ya data muhimu ya afya kwenye choo, utaweza kupima na kuchambua data ili kuboresha afya yako. Vifaa vya choo vyenye akili katika nyumba zitaweza kuchukua sampuli za mkojo na kugundua dawa na chakula kinachotumiwa. Kwa mfano, ikiwa uchunguzi wa mkojo unafanywa kwa kiwango kikubwa, kuna uwezekano wa kufanya uchunguzi wa mkojo wa kiwango cha juu na kuamua data ya msingi ya afya ya idadi ya watu. Kwa kutumia teknolojia ya AI ya akili na vifaa vya picha vya hali ya juu vya simu za mkononi, unaweza kuunda matokeo ya mtihani wa mkojo na alama yako ya dijiti. Programu ya programu inaweza kutumia akili bandia (AI) na kujifunza mashine kufanya vipimo vya matibabu na kuhifadhi data katika wingu. Kwa mfano, Healthy.io ni programu ya simu ya mkononi ambayo unaweza kutumia kufanya vipimo vya mkojo na kugundua ugonjwa wa figo wa muda mrefu moja kwa moja katika faraja ya nyumba yako. Programu hiyo inakuja na kit Dipio kwa ajili ya ukusanyaji wa sampuli ya mkojo ambayo kwa kawaida inachambuliwa kwa kutumia teknolojia ya picha kupitia kamera ya simu yako ya mkononi. Ubunifu huu wa kupima mkojo utafanya mchakato wa kukusanya mkojo na uchambuzi kuwa rahisi, wa bei nafuu, wa mara kwa mara, na sahihi. Jinsi Uchunguzi wa Mkojo wa Smart Unabadilisha Huduma ya Afya Uchunguzi na upimaji unazidi umri na wakati wa kutumia X-ray kwa mifupa iliyovunjika au kuchukua sampuli za damu zisizo na kikomo. Leo, huduma za afya za akili zinahitajika ulimwenguni. Usalama wa akili ni juu ya kuweza kukamata magonjwa mapema na kuzuia au kusimamia. Ubunifu huu utamaanisha mwisho wa enzi ya mfumo wa utambuzi usio sahihi na uliocheleweshwa. "Wakati watu wanasema ""smart"" katika muktadha wa huduma za afya, wanamaanisha ulimwengu ambapo tunaweza kuendelea kufuatilia na kufuatilia afya yetu siku nzima na vifaa vya kubeba." Pia, tunaweza kukadiria na kutabiri magonjwa kwa kutumia vifaa vya kila siku kama vile saa za mkono, simu mahiri, au hata vyoo. Vifaa vya kuvaa kama vile smartwatches vinaweza kukusaidia kufuatilia na kugundua hali maalum za afya. Vifaa vya kupandikiza, kama vile defibrillators, vinaweza kuathiri utendaji wa moyo. Wataalamu wa maabara sasa wanafanya kazi ya kuunda bra za smart kwa kutumia infrared na sauti kugundua tumors ndogo za matiti ambazo zinaweza kuondolewa mapema. Wagonjwa wanaweza kufanya upimaji wa mkojo kwa urahisi hatua kwa hatua. Inatuma matokeo ya mtihani moja kwa moja kwenye hifadhidata yao ya elektroniki ya matibabu au seva kwa ufuatiliaji wa kliniki. Kwa kutumia vipimo vya mkojo, wagonjwa wanaweza kujichunguza wenyewe wakiwa nyumbani kwao, kugundua magonjwa, na kutafuta matibabu ya haraka. Uchunguzi wa mkojo wa akili unaweza kuboresha matokeo mazuri ya afya kupitia utambuzi wa mapema na unaoendelea. Isitoshe, hupunguza gharama za matibabu ya kawaida ya maradhi ya hatua ya mwisho. Kama ni kupitia vyoo smart, smart mtihani strips, au hata smartphones, smart mkojo uchambuzi ni kubadilisha siku zijazo ya huduma za afya. Na limekuja kubaki! Lakini, kwa kweli, ubunifu huu wa akili haukui na makosa, na haukui na matokeo ya uwongo. Uchunguzi wa mkojo wenye akili haubadilishi kabisa uchunguzi wa mara kwa mara wa kitiba na uchunguzi wa maabara.