What is Ictotest?

Ictotest is a qualitative test used to detect the presence of conjugated bilirubin in urine. It uses the same chemical reaction as the bilirubin pad on the multi-reagent dipstick, but is presented in a tablet format.

What does high urobilinogen mean?

Normal urine contains some urobilinogen. If there is little or no urobilinogen in urine, it can mean your liver isn’t working correctly. Too much urobilinogen in urine can indicate a liver disease such as hepatitis or cirrhosis. Other names: urine test; urine analysis; UA, chemical urinalysis.

What causes elevated urobilinogen in urine?

Two situations can lead to an increase in urobilinogen levels in urine: a liver disease that disturbs the normal passage of urobilinogen through the liver and gallbladder (viral hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, obstruction of the gallbladder by gallstones, etc.), or a urobilinogen overload caused by the release of …

What are analytes in urine?

High specific gravity, some antibiotics, such as tetracycline, and large amounts of glucose or ascorbic acid can cause false negative leukocyte esterase results. Glucose, another urine dipstick test, is mainly used to monitor diabetes. Normal urines are negative for glucose.

How do you do Ictotest?

Place one drop of distilled water onto the tablet. Wait 5 seconds, then place a second drop of distilled water onto the tablet so that the distilled water runs off the tablet onto the mat. Observe the color of the mat around and under the tablet at 60 seconds.

What is Bilirubinuria?

Bilirubinuria is the presence of bilirubin in the urine, usually detected while performing a routine urine dipstick test. Its presence is abnormal and can be the first clinical pointer of serious underlying hepatobiliary disorder even before clinical jaundice is appreciated.

What is Urobilinogen normal range?

The normal urobilinogen concentration in urine ranges from 0.1-1.8 mg/dl (1.7-30 µmol/l), concentrations >2.0 mg/dl (34 µmol/l) are considered to be pathological. Urobilinogen does not occur in urine, unless bilirubin gets into the intestines.

Is Urobilinogen 0.2 normal?

Urobilinogen is normally present in the urine in low concentrations (0.2-1.0 mg/dL or <17 micromol/L).

What is the normal urobilinogen of urine?

How does urobilinogen get into the urine?

It is formed in the intestines by bacterial action on bilirubin. About half of the urobilinogen formed is reabsorbed and taken up via the portal vein to the liver, enters circulation and is excreted by the kidney. Increased amounts of bilirubin are formed in hemolysis, which generates increased urobilinogen in the gut.

What is the normal range for bacteria in urine?

Laboratory Tests For that reason, up to 10,000 colonies of bacteria/ml are considered normal. Greater than 100,000 colonies/ml represents urinary tract infection. For counts between 10,000 and 100,000, the culutre is indeterminate.

Is there a replacement for the ictotest test?

By the way, Ictotest has not been available for almost a year and won’t be available, if at all, until sometime in 2014. A replacement test called ICTOCHECK is now available from Biorex Labs. This test uses a disc instead of a tablet.

Who is the manufacturer of the ictotest strip?

The test tablets are called K-CHECK and are made by Biorex Labs. We stopped using it in the last century, along with all the other “confirmatory” urinalysis tests. In the case of the ictotest tablets, the chemistry methodology is the same as the strip, if I am not mistaken.

When did the first ictotest tablets come out?

Ictotest Reagent Tablets were first made available in 1953 Use of Ictotest requires a dropper and distilled water, in addition to the absorbent mats and reagent tablets provided. The test is easy to perform and gives timely and accurate confirmatory urine bilirubin results in one minute.

How are ictotest reagent tablets used in the lab?

The Ictotest reagent tablets can be used to rule-out the presence of interfering substances that may cause a false positive result. Place a square of the absorbent test mat supplied onto a paper towel. Using either side of the test mat will produce expected results.