Health Check question..kidneys

[Newtothis]

Had to provide a urine sample for a kidney check? Can I ask what this is for.

I think this is the last check I need in terms of the 15 health checks.

Amanda xx 🙂

 

[brett]

Found this on net

If it is not well controlled, type 1 diabetes can cause high blood glucose levels, which can force your kidneys to work harder to do this filtering. The capillaries become more porous and start to leak. Proteins that should normally not be filtered out start to appear in your urine.

People with type 1 diabetes sometimes develop little holes in the filtering devices in their kidneys so they start to spill small amounts of protein, called proteinuria," says Jay Cohen, MD, medical director of the Endocrine Clinic in Memphis and clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Tennessee.

"If there is uncontrolled diabetes on top of the proteinuria," says Dr. Cohen, "that can lead to a difficulty of the kidneys being able to get rid of a poison in your blood called creatinine." Cohen says that creatinine can build up in your blood, which puts you at risk of kidney failure

 

[Northerner]

Had to provide a urine sample for a kidney check? Can I ask what this is for.

I think this is the last check I need in terms of the 15 health checks.

Amanda xx 🙂

Don't be alarmed by the 'worst case scenario' that Brett quoted, Amanda, you will be fine. Like any diabetes complications, they only arise if blood sugar control is poor over a protracted period of time.

Well-controlled diabetes is the major cause of...absolutely nothing!

🙂

 

[Austin Mini]

I have mine checked every year, year after year, dont worry they like to check everything.

 

[daisymoo84]

Hi Amanda, I have to provide one too at my next Hba1c in August. DSN said she just wanted to check everything was working ok... x

 

[trophywench]

Been having mine checked every year since 1972, funnily enough .... dead normal !