Patient's question:
Can a urinalysis detect uremia? Or does it require more detailed and thorough testing for diagnosis? What are the characteristics of uremia? Are there any obvious features?Doctor's answer:
In this case, routine urinalysis cannot detect uremia, but if there are abnormal findings in the routine test, further careful examination should be conducted. Typically, there may be symptoms such as edema, reduced urine output, or anuria. If uremia is the cause, it is important to implement concurrent treatment, preferably through kidney transplantation. In later stages, if the urinalysis shows no proteinuria or hematuria, appearing as clear water, this is not necessarily a good sign. It indicates that kidney function has reached the end stage, with all substances unable to be filtered, and the entire filtration membrane is damaged. Therefore, many early-stage proteinuria and hematuria may have disappeared.