Chris Wells4 said:Could someone please weigh in on these urine results? This is for a girl who is almost 7 years old. She hasn't shown any symptoms that I've noticed; we just had this done because she’s enrolling in first grade.
BLOOD POSITIVE
BILIRUBIN NEGATIVE
UROBILINOGEN NORMAL
KETONES NEGATIVE
PROTEINS NEGATIVE
NITRATES NEGATIVE
GLUCOSE NORMAL
REACTION 5.0 (4.5-8.0)
SPECIFIC GRAVITY 1.032
WBC POSITIVE
APPEARANCE SLIGHTLY CLOUDY
COLOR YELLOW
WBC SEDIMENT 15 (0.0-5)
RBC SEDIMENT 4 (0-2)
WBC IN CLUMPS /
RBC IN CLUMPS /
EPITHELIAL CELLS /
RENAL TUBULAR EPITHELIAL CELLS /
TRANSITIONAL EPITHELIAL CELLS /
SQUAMOUS EPITHELIAL CELLS 1
CYLINDERS /
BACTERIA SOME
CRYSTALS /
MUCUS MASS
OTHER ELEMENTS I /
OTHER ELEMENTS II /
Maria Fisher46 said:You definitely need to repeat that urine test. If leukocyturia shows up again, you'll need to run a urine culture. However, if the culture comes back sterile but those white blood cell counts are still elevated, then you really need to dig deeper and investigate further.
Thanks so much for the response. We actually went back and repeated the test after a week, and the values were perfectly normal. Our doctor told us that the first result was probably just some kind of error and accepted the second one as valid. Was that the right call for the doctor to make? Is it even possible to go from those initial results to a totally fine reading just a week later? Do these kinds of errors actually happen?
Edit: In the most recent test, there was just a lot of mucus, so we were advised to make sure she drinks plenty of fluids.
Thanks again.