It’s important not to confuse mucus with pus or sediment, which typically appears cloudy or grainy. If you’re unsure, a healthcare provider can perform a urinalysis to determine what’s present. In ...

Dietary supplementation of yeast and yeast-based products improves growth performance, nutrient digestibility and overall health of pigs and poultry. Photo: Bert Jansen Recent research has ...

If your doctor tests your urine and finds too many leukocytes, it could be a sign of infection. Leukocytes are white blood cells created in the bone marrow and found in your blood and tissue.

Proteinuria is the presence of too much protein in the urine. It is typically a sign of kidney disease, often in people diagnosed with diabetes, but also can occur with pregnancy, lupus, and other ...

Small amounts of protein can appear in your urine and be OK. Above a certain level, however, may indicate proteinuria, which can be a red flag for kidney disease. Proteins are among the most ...

Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2012;7(3):269-279. In summary, excess levels of urobilinogen and bilirubin in the urine may signal liver disease, and more research is needed to correlate these ...

If it is used, the urine sample is prepared by placing it in a centrifuge and spinning it at a rapid speed so that all of the contents are sedimented on the bottom of the tube. A drop or two of the ...

Urine tests measure specific substances in your urine, such as electrolytes, proteins, and bacteria. These tests can reveal a lot about your health, particularly when gradual changes or big jumps ...

Floc size distribution is one of the key parameters to characterize flocculating cohesive sediment. An Eulerian–Lagrangian framework has been implemented to study the flocculation dynamics of cohesive ...