my urine dip stick showed 0.3+ of protein what does that mean? please help me am worry?

Question

I'am 23 years old women, two days ago i had my urine sample taken to the lab for some test (coronary artery desease,screening for liver and kidney desorders,diabetes,HIV antibodies and many more) to qualified for health insurance.Before sending the simple out, the nurse dip stick in my urine and he show 0.3+ of protein. She told me that i have a hight protein level in my urine and that's anormal, but she also cannot explain it to me i have to call my docteur or wait for the result in two weeks. I call a urology to ask about he ask me to come in whith my lab result for a visit and set an apointment for me in 16 days who will cost me from $200-$250 because i'am not insure. Am so worry and scare please can somebody tell me what does that mean? Is to long for me to wait. Tank you and god bless.

Answer 1

"Proteinuria" is the medical term for protein in the urine.

You should not be scared. This will most likely turn out to be nothing to worry about. Proteinuria can be caused by mild dehydration, bladder infections, menstruation, vaginal infections -- none of which are any big deal. However, you should see a doctor (by the way, if you were to see a Family Medicine doctor instead of a Urologist you could easily save 20% or more). The reason they do those screening tests is to find serious diseases before they cause problems. Some serious kidney diseases will first be noted by finding proteinuria. However, the chances of this being the case for you is very remote. As an encouragement, most sports medicine doctors will not even do a dipstick urinalysis in healthy young athletes because it causes more harm than good (i.e. you get people all worried for nothing and you make them do more tests just to prove there was nothing wrong to begin with).

Answer 2

there is a good chance that there are some cell from surrounding tissue and or vaginal discharge got into the cup as well. Results like this should be repeated with a clean catch / midstream urine. Other possibilities for high protein in urine are bacteria, white and/ or red blood cells, mucous and real protein from you kidneys. these test also some times cross react with other natural ingredient from your urine. Make sure you get retested by something else than a RN with a dipstick. That is just called screening.

Answer 3

relax hun, it usually just means you are either on your period or just had more vaginal fluid in the sample which means you didn't wash the area incredibly thoroughly right before the sample was given.

Call planned parenthood make a small donation and they can do the test again.....its not going to be a problem though and if it is then it was worth the insurance being turned down in order to find out........but if your on your period...forget about it.

Answer 4

forget the urology appt..you probably did not clean as thoroughly as you could have and menstrual blood or vaginal discharge contaminated your specimen. Let your M.D. get the lab results and go from there..you may be asked to repeat it.Possibly the dip stix was contaminated..

Answer 5

High protein in the urine is often caused from inadequate diet. It is a flag for malnutrition.

Answer 6

It could be nothing or it could be something serious, ither way it is always best to spend the money and find out. You do not want to hear "If only we would have caught this sooner". Than hearing your fine, now that will be $200.00.

Answer 7

Maybe it is kidney stones, no big deal. Something similar happened to me a few years ago.

Answer 8

i'm more worried about the nurse using a dip stick