Mucus in the urine.

Today, medicine is actively developing, moving from invasive to non-invasive. The majority of both therapeutic and diagnostic manipulations are currently small or non-invasive and comply with the norms of human physiology. That is, there is no violation of the integrity of the internal and external environment of the body, as a result, the homeostasis remains at the same level and there is no such a widespread disruption of adaptive possibilities.

Modern methods of diagnosis involve obtaining information by taking a variety of biological materials. Liquid body fluids, like others, serve as a diagnostic criterion for certain diseases. First of all, this is due to the fact that the composition of these biological media is normally constant. Secondly, the slightest, even insignificant, changes in the state of the organism are reflected in the change in the composition of the liquid medium.

To such liquid media can include blood, urine, spinal and intraarticular fluid. However, the latter, due to high invasiveness, are used extremely rarely. While blood and urine tests are standard and are prescribed permanently, practically with any changes in the body.

There is a whole list of criteria that are indicative of a disease. As for the general analysis of urine, it determines the color, density, pH, transparency, protein and mucus in the urine.

In general, urine is an aqueous solution of electrolytes and (in a small amount) of organic substances. Normally, mucus in the urine is contained in a small amount and when diagnosing a general analysis is not detected. To quantify the content in a slime sample, a "plus" system is used. The maximum detectable quantity is taken as "++++", the minimum for "+". The color of urine is straw-yellow, the density varies from 1010 to 1025. In addition, this biological fluid is normally transparent and does not contain protein.

Slime in the urine is synthesized by an epithelial tissue. The inflammatory process in the organs of the urinary system, as well as the prolonged stagnation of this biological fluid, can lead to hyperproduction of mucus and obstructing its normal drainage, resulting in mucus in the urine. The causes that can cause inflammation are systemic (or general) or local. Systemic causes are diseases of the urinary system of a general nature that are not associated with local infection. That is, in this case, the inflammatory process develops as a result of the "descent" of the infection.

As for local inflammation, the infectious agent penetrates the urinary system from the outside through the urethra. To this group can be attributed a large number of sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea and others.

However, most often, mucus in the urine indicates a violation of the rules and requirements for taking urine samples for analysis.

Due to some anatomical features of the female genital and urinary systems, mucus in the urine of women can indicate an inflammatory process in the organs of the reproductive system.

Slime in the urine can appear as a result of stagnation of this physiological fluid in the bladder or kidneys. The latter most often occurs with prostatic hypertrophy in men and urolithiasis.

If detected in the mucus assay, the procedure is repeated to confirm the diagnostic data. If mucus is still found in the urine, the patient is sent to the urologist for further thorough examination and diagnosis.

Thus, mucus in the urine is not necessarily a pathology. Probably, the reason is the non-observance of the rules of sampling urine for analysis. However, in any case, this diagnostic indicator requires re-confirmation. In the case of repeated detection of mucus - a more extensive diagnosis of the genitourinary system.