What's the matter with occult blood in urine test?

When occult blood is found in the urine during a urine test, this is actually a disease. It may be caused by inflammation in the body, or it may be caused by stones in the body. Another possibility is a tumor. Therefore, in order to recover, you must find the cause and then prescribe the medicine. You cannot take medicine blindly. In addition, you must do a good job of prevention, such as avoiding eating high-fat foods, drinking plenty of water, and increasing exercise appropriately.

1. What is the reason for occult blood in urine test?

Causes of occult blood in urine Occult blood in urine is generally attributed to the following three reasons: inflammation, stones, and tumors. Regarding inflammation, such as glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, cystitis, etc., in addition to hematuria, occult blood may also occur in urine examination. The stones themselves, whether they are kidney, ureter or bladder stones, may cause occult blood. Other situations such as constipation during menstruation may also cause occult blood.

In addition, tumors can also cause occult blood, such as benign or malignant tumors of the kidney, bladder, and ureter. Of course, older men may have hematuria or occult blood after straining to urinate due to prostate enlargement and excessive residual urine, which makes the bladder prone to inflammation, congestion of blood vessels on the surface of the prostate, and difficulty urinating.

2. How to prevent occult blood in urine?

1. Avoid high-fat foods

During the illness, you should avoid eating high-cholesterol foods such as (pig, beef, chicken offal) brain, liver, kidney, fish eggs, egg yolks, etc. At the same time, you should quit smoking and drinking, eat less meat, and avoid eating salty and greasy foods.

2. Multiple activities

Urinary stones include kidney stones, ureteral stones, bladder stones and urethral stones. When an attack occurs, the main symptoms include severe pain in the waist and abdomen, vomiting, nausea, etc. In order to prevent urinary stones and reduce the onset of stone pain, you should drink more water, eat less salty, sugary, and calcium-rich foods, and exercise more. Especially for long-term bedridden patients, they should be encouraged and helped to move more to reduce bone decalcification and improve urine flow.

3. Drug prevention

Adjust the diet appropriately according to the composition of the stones. For example, patients with oxalate stones should eat less foods rich in oxalic acid, such as potatoes, spinach, etc. Oral vitamin B6 can reduce the excretion of oxalate in urine, and oral magnesium oxide can increase the solubility of oxalate in urine. Patients with phosphate stones should follow a low-phosphorus and low-calcium diet and take ammonium chloride orally to acidify the urine, which facilitates the dissolution of phosphate. Patients with urate stones should eat foods rich in purine, such as liver, kidney and beans, and take citrate mixture or sodium bicarbonate orally to alkalize the urine and keep the urine pH above 6.5.