Sentences with phrase «ph of the urine»

Other natural treatments that may be necessary include specific botanicals that help combat bacterial (or other) infections, immune system boosters, probiotics, and substances that help raise or lower the pH of the urine.

If the pH of your urine is lower, especially if it's below 6.5 this means you don't have sufficient alkaline reserves to buffer acids.

It is also entirely true that the food you eat can change the pH of your urine and body tissues.

The body regulates pH pretty closely, so the main impact of dietary acid - alkaline producers is on the pH of the urine.

How can you tell the pH of your urine?

So that first claim is pretty easily dismissed, and the second claim, which is that urine pH is an accurate indicator of health or that our urine pH is a good reflection of our serum pH, you will actually find some studies that make that claim, but they're also easily dismissed, and there are many more studies that have found that the pH of our urine does not in any way reflect the pH of our blood and, therefore, it's not a reliable indicator of anything other than how well our kidneys are functioning because one of their main jobs is to buffer the blood and remove any excess acid that might accumulate from protein digestion.

However, the pH of our urine, for those people who have maybe been testing this, it does indicate potential kidney function.

Acidity Test: Here the pH of the Urine is measured.

Most of the crystals can be identified by their shape and by the pH of the urine in which they were found.

It may also be recommended to alter the pH of the urine in order to inhibit a recurrence.

Cats that have trouble with bladder stones or crystals in their urine may benefit from a diet that helps to control the pH of urine.

The pH of urine can change and when it does it can form crystals inside the bladder by using minerals and proteins within the urine.

The pH of the urine can be a factor.

A complete urinalysis involves checking for the presence of bacterial, crystals, blood cells and other substances in the urine as well as measuring the concentration and pH of the urine.

We now know that multiple factors lead to struvite crystal formation including the pH of the urine, the amount of magnesium and phosphorus excreted in the urine, the length of time urine stays in the bladder before the cat urinates, and the concentration of the urine.

We can monitor whether or not an owner is doing this by looking at the pH of the urine along with the specific gravity of the urine.

As this ammonia is broken down it changes the pH of the urine from its usual acid (pH less than 7) to alkaline (PH > than 7).

Urease will increase the pH of the urine and promote ammonium in the urine.

The pH of the urine, and the presence of bacteria or crystals all provide valuable information.

Potassium citrate will inhibit calcium oxalate crystal formation and keep the pH of the urine in the ideal range.

Increasing the pH of the urine to 7.0 - 7.5.

The pH of the urine will be alkaline.

The purpose of these diets are to dissolve or prevent crystals from forming by controlling the levels of magnesium, calcium and phosphorus as well as the pH of the urine, preventing bacterial infections as well.

Medications that increase or decrease the pH of the urine can also set the stage for stone formation.

The pH of the urine, presence of proteins around which the crystals can aggregate, and urinary water content all are important issues.

Apparently, after a large meal, the pH of the urine tends to become alkaline.

A cat that has been diagnosed with FLUTD would ideally need to be on a prescription diet that changes the pH of his urine and is really low in the minerals that create the crystals, not just any canned food.

Answer: This is a really good question - I actually don't know what omega 3 fatty acids do to the pH of their urine.

There are drugs that can alter the pH of the urine as well.

Special diets that change the pH of the urine may be prescribed to keep a urethral plug from reforming.

It is also important to note - for those people still stuck on worrying about the urine pH - that there are many factors which determine the pH of urine and only one of them is diet.

And finally a bladder that is free from infection as an infection alters the pH of the urine and crystals / stones may form.

In addition to the benefits listed above, it is formulated for the proper pH of the urine and control the mineral building blocks of urinary stones.

The enzymatic action of some bacteria on urea increases the pH of the urine, which decreases the solubility of struvite crystals.

The pH of the urine should be kept above 7.5.

Diets high in plant - based protein will raise the pH of the urine, which can cause struvite bladder stones.

Not exact matches

Another device, called Scanadu Scanaflo, is a urine test kit that the company says can test for levels of glucose, protein, leukocytes, nitrates, blood, bilirubin, urobilinogen, specific gravity, and pH in urine.

The first step in establishing an alkaline diet is to assess your current pH. A good approximation of tissue pH is easily obtained by testing the pH of your saliva or first - morning urine.

Blood is slighly alkaline (between 7.35 and 7.45) while urine is slightly acidic (with a pH of about 6.4).

«Of all the factors we measured, the only one that was really different between the two groups was pH — how acidic or basic the urine was.»

If you have an extra moment in the morning, get out your litmus paper and to test your pH. Use either saliva or urine (the second pee of the day will give you a more accurate reading).

I emphasize testing, not guessing, with urine keto pH strips because what we eat is only a part of what gets us keto - alkaline.

Two common factors emerged in urine that had a better ability to resist bacterial growth: it had a high pH — one that's more alkaline, in other words — and higher levels of certain metabolites formed by gut microbes.

«One thing this suggests is that maybe the reason it's not more effective is that people need both cranberries and a higher urine pH, or they need cranberries and appropriate inhabitants of their intestine, or the right microbiome composition in their gut, for the cranberry part to work properly.»

So what you consume on a daily basis will not change the pH levels of your blood, but it may change the pH of your saliva and urine.

High levels of vitamin D, cod liver oil or calcium / magnesium can artificially cause your urine to be alkaline (but you may not have a pH balance problem).

Question: I am tempted to reduce my intake of protein, eat more starches until my urine pH rises to the higher side of normal.

These measures include enhancing the flow of urine by achieving and maintaining proper hydration, promoting a pH that will inhibit the growth of the organism, and preventing bacterial adherence to the endothelial cells of the bladder.

Number two would be that our urine pH is an accurate indicator of our health, and by extension, we can use these urine test strips that proponents of the hypothesis recommend and determine, first of all, whether our blood is acidic by measuring our urine acidity, and second of all, by extension, we can use these urine test strips to determine our health.

For example, urine with a pH value of between 4 and 6 can optimise the effects of many antibiotics including ampicillin, and prevent the formation of kidney stones.