For women who are prescribed an analysis, the question arises: why collect daily urine from pregnant women? Is it possible to do without it? Isn't the usual analysis, which is taken in the morning, enough?
Daily urine should be taken if the doctor needs to accurately determine not only the presence, specific gravity, but also the ratio of the following components:
• creatinine;
• urobilin;
• glucose;
• bilirubin;
• ketone bodies;
• salts;
• protein and albumin.
Creatinine is an indicator of how the kidneys are functioning. Exceeding its amount indicates that there are serious disorders in the body: perhaps there is an inflammatory process of the urinary tract or kidney failure develops, the first signs of which are usually hidden, are detected only during analysis.
The level of urobilin is an indicator of the quality of the liver and biliary tract. It can increase with congestion in the liver and with the breakdown of red blood cells, for example, with an Rhesus conflict.
There should be no glucose in the urine. If it appears, this is an occasion to donate blood for sugar and further closely monitor this indicator, as it may indicate the development of gestational diabetes. However, if the appearance of glucose was detected in the urine once, while everything is in order in the blood, this may turn out to be a false alarm.
In the second half of pregnancy, preeclampsia may develop, and its first indicator is the appearance of ketone bodies in the urine. Acetone in the urine, especially in the morning, may indicate that during the night the fetus did not have enough glucose and the breakdown of fats in the mother's body began in order to provide the baby with the necessary nutrients.
Protein should be no more than 0.03 g / l. If, as a result of the analysis, “Traces” is written, then this is the norm. If there is a figure> 0.03, it is worth checking the kidneys. Protein loss is not a good sign. An inflammatory process is not excluded. Protein grows with:
• pyelonephritis;
• glomerulonephritis;
• renal failure;
• developing preeclampsia.
In the transcript of the study, the composition of the detected salts is analyzed. It can be used to judge the tendency to certain metabolic disorders.