Ketonuria and Urinary Acidity

Ketonuria and Urinary Acidity.

The significance of acetone bodies in the urine subsequent to surgical operations has long been the cause of controversy and is not as yet settled. It is now well recognised that ketone bodies are not necessarily associated with acidosis. Although a ketosis usually accompanies an acidosis, the reverse is by no means the case. Despite the fact that a true acidosisa lepletion of the alkali reserv...

Ketonæmia and Ketonuria in Childhood.

The formation of ketone bodies and their excretion in the urine in albnormall amounts have for many years been problems of much interest to both physiologist and clinician. Much of our present knowledge of the subject has been gained from the study of carbohydrate metabolism in diabetes, where ketonuria in its classical formi is frequently observed. From this it has been established that an exc...

Chemical tests for ketonuria.

Variations in the concentration of taurine have been noted by several workers during chromatographic investigation of urinary amino-acids (Kay and Entenman, 1954; Souchon and Grunau, 1952; Ishihara, Komori, and lida, 1951 ; Nardi, 1954; Beerstecher, Sutton, Berry, Brown, Reed, Rich, Berry, and Williams, 1950). Taurine is present in high concentration in liver (Tallan, 1954), and it is in the li...

Ketonemia and ketonuria in gestational diabetes mellitus.

BACKGROUND The use of capillary blood 3-β-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) is a more precise method than urine ketones measurement for the diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis. Fasting ketonuria is common during normal pregnancy, while there is evidence that it is increased among pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) who are on a diet. 3HB levels have been related to impaired offspring psy...

Studies on Urinary Acidity, and a Method for Electrometric Titration of Urine