The potassium urine test measures the amount of potassium in the urine.
Alternative NamesUrine potassium
How the test is performedThis test may be done with a random urine sample or a 24-hour urine sample.
If a 24-hour urine sample is needed:
For an infant, thoroughly wash the area around the urethra. Open a urine collection bag (a plastic bag with an adhesive paper on one end), and place it on the infant. For males, place the entire penis in the bag and attach the adhesive to the skin. For females, place the bag over the labia. Diaper as usual over the secured bag.
This procedure may take a couple of attempts -- lively infants can move the bag, causing the urine to be absorbed by the diaper. Check the infant frequently and change the bag after the infant has urinated into it. Drain the urine from the bag into the container provided by your health care provider.
Deliver it to the laboratory or your health care provider as soon as possible upon completion.
How to prepare for the testIf the collection is being taken from an infant, a couple of extra collection bags may be necessary.
Your health care provider may tell you to temporarily stop taking certain drugs that may affect test results. Drugs that can affect urine potassium measurements include:
This test involves only normal urination, and there is no discomfort.
Why the test is performedYour doctor may order this test if you have signs of a condition that affects body fluids. This may include dehydration, vomiting, or diarrhea.
It may also be done to diagnose or confirm disorders of the kidneys or adrenal glands.
Additional conditions under which the test may be performed include medullary cystic disease.
Normal ValuesThe usual range for a person on a regular diet is 25 to 125 milliequivalents per liter per day. However, lower or higher urinary levels may occur depending on the amount of potassium in your diet and the amount of potassium in the body.
The examples above are common measurements for results of these tests. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What abnormal results meanHigh urine potassium levels may be due to:
Low urine potassium levels may be due to:
Landry DW, Bazari H. Approach to the patient with renal disease. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 116.
Reviewed ByReview Date: 08/21/2011
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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Potassium Citrate will affect both blood PH and calcium excretion via urine more than gluconate Potassium Citrate - C6H5K3O7 + H2O - is often the medicine of choice to make the urine more alkaline. This helps prevent the formation of certain kinds of kidney stones in this way - Potassium citrate attaches to calcium in the urine, preventing the formation of mineral crystals that can develop into kidney stones. In some cases, your health care professional may prescribe this medicine to balance the level of potassium in your body, for example, when the potassium level is low, etc. Potassium is a naturally occurring salt that is important for the normal functioning of the heart, muscles, and nerves. Potassium Gluconate - C6H5K3O7 - is often used to maintain acid-base balance, isotonicity, and electrophysiologic balance throughout body tissues. It is crucial to nerve impulse transmission and contraction of cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle. Potassium gluconate is also essential for normal renal function and carbohydrate metabolism. It is not known whether potassium passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby. This medication should not be taken without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
Potassium levels often drop initially via increased urine output from the hyperglycemia caused osmotic diuresis. To make matters worse, the insulin, that will undoubtedly be used to treat the hyperglycemia, will also pull the free floating potassium into cells, and out of the blood stream where the body cannot utilize the potassium. This can result in cardiac arrhythmias and death. Therefore potassium must be administered with insulin to treat severe hyperglycemia, even when potassium levels don't seem critically low.
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Affects the concentration of potassium in the urine by controlling the amount of water in the urine.
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Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) causes water to be absorbed from the urine back into the body. Everything else in the urine, including electrolytes such as potassium, is concentrated.
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24 hour urine pottassium calculation
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I'd love to know the answer to that as well.
Healthy urine consists of 95 % water,ammonia , potassium, hydrogen, sodium, uric acid and urea and bilirubin,
A sample is collected through the urine. The specimen collection is called a '24 hour' collection, according to this website. I hypothesize that this period of time is a gestation period to allow the potassium in the urine to either grow or 'collect'; however, one must ask how the potassium is stored for this period. In refrigeration, or room temperature?
Urine is mixture of urea, sodium chloride, potassium chloride etc. dissolved in water; but many other components exist. But urine contain also undissolved components.
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Urine is made up of urea, chloride, sodium, potassium, creatinine and other dissolved ions, inorganic and organic compounds.