How well do you know about urine? Test yourself.
Answer True or False.
- Urine made by healthy kidneys that has not left the body is actually sterile.
- Estrogen extracted from pregnant mares’ urine is not used to make the drug Premarin.
- Urine from fox and wolf is used to keep rabbits, rodents, deers and cats away from the garden.
- Gross hematuria means that blood cannot be seen in the urine with the naked eye.
- Asparagus can make urine green and smelly.
- A bacterial infection turns urine cloudy.
- Familial hypercalcemia is a rare inherited disorder that causes high calcium. Children with this condition, nicknamed the “blue diaper syndrome” has blue urine.
- The urine urea nitrogen (UUN) test is a measure of protein breakdown in the body.
- Pregnant women may experience an increase in urinary frequency and stress incontinence due to the additional weight on the bladder.
- Cancer-causing compounds were never once found in the urine of babies who were in constant exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
- In diabetics, urine may smell fruity due to the presence of glucose.
- Alcohol and caffeine don’t have a diuretic effect.
- Bedwetting often runs in the family i.e. when one or both parents, grandparents had wetted when they were young.
- The Kegel exercise helps strengthen the pelvic floor muscles which support the bladder, rectum and in women, the uterus.
- It is uncommon for animals to use their urine to (scent) mark their territories.
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Answers: 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. T 8. T 9. T 10. F 11. T 12. F 13. T 14. T 15. F
Chapter: Urine :: 10 April 2008
