oh sorry i was confused. I'm thinking of checking urine sugar to check
health of kidney, is it related to diabetes in anyway? thanks

On Jan 16, 10:50 am, "zzzxtr...@gmail.com" <zzzxtr...@gmail.com>
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sorry for the multiple most,

another question is, is it possible to have high sugar in blood, but
no sugar found in urine?

On Jan 16, 10:50 am, "zzzxtr...@gmail.com" <zzzxtr...@gmail.com>
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Checking urine is an old fashioned and very much outdated method.  By the
time there is sugar in your urine, your blood sugar has been waaay too high
for too long and your body has likely sustained damage.

I don't know what serology is so I can't help you there.  And you don't use
needles to check your blood.  You use lancets.  Yeah, they're sharp, but not
exactly needles.  They're also very cheap.  If done at a lab, they always
change the lancet between patients and use an alcohol swab as an added
precaution.

If you do it at home, you can change lancets if you choose.  Most of us use
the same one for days, weeks or even months before changing because it is
more comfortable and far less painful to use an old one.  If you test
someone else, you need to put in a new one for them and then a fresh one for
you.

I used to be very freaked out about checking my blood.  Didn't ever think I
could do it.  Now it's no big deal.

a home Blood Glucose testing kit does not use needles, like on a
syringe.  It uses "lancets" held in a pen style lancet device.  If you
have that much fear of someone ignorantly picking it up and sticking
themselves with it, it would take a real moron or a child who wasn't
told the rules, the lancets are extremely cheap and easily and safely
disposable.

I'd advise seeing a doctor and asking him or her if you might be
diabetic or pre-diabetic. If, for some reason, you cannot or will not
do this, read on.

If you know any diabetics living or working near you, you might want
to ask one of them if you can use one of their meters, and for advice
as to when and how to use it.

The procedure is simple, and regardless of your serology, perfectly
safe for both you and the person allowing you to use a meter, provided
you take normal precautions with the liquid blood. The following
description is accurate for most meters. Some are different in the
manner of packaging of the test strips. I offer the following only to
reassure you of the simplicity and safety of the procedure.

First, a new lancet should be installed in the blood sampler. The
lancet will be sterile. You then place a strip in the meter, which
will turn it on. You then cock the sampler, place it against either
the side or pad of a (clean) fingertip, then press the trigger.

Massaging the finger will bring a drop of blood to the surface of the
skin. Bring the end of the test strip to touch the drop of blood. The
meter will take a few seconds (mine takes 5 seconds, and shows a
countdown), then give you a reading. You can then remove and discard
the strip, using normal precautions for liquid blood.

After you have taken all the samples you need (I'd suggest at least
two; one before eating in the morning, and one two hours after a
meal), you should remove the used lancet and discard it in a sharps
container, and the meter owner can replace it with a new lancet.

You can ask the meter owner about the results, or you can post them
here for comment.

We (well, most of us) are not doctors, and will not presume to
diagnose you, though we might suggest how much urgency you should
employ in making an appointment with a doctor.

Elevated sugar level in the urine would be a late sign rather than
early sign of type-2 diabetes.

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Sort of. Usually, the blood sugar rises before the sugar in urine. When
blood passes through the kidneys, the fluid in the blood gets filtered
out into the tubules in the kidneys. The kidneys then reabosrb the sugar
from the filtrate. What isn't absorbed is excrete as urine. The tubules
can only absorb so much sugar, so if the blood sugar is above 200 or so,
 the urine contains sugar, below this, no sugar is in the urine.

So it is much better to test for both blood sugar. An alternative is
having your a1c (alpha 1-c henoglobin) levels tested. This serves as an
average level of your blood sugar over about a 3 month time. This can
only be done in the lab (you can test for your sugar at home with a
blood sugar testing kit you can buy at a drug store).

You need to have proper needle disposal methods.

Jeff

thank you all so much for the prompt reply!
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