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Laboratory Tests | ==== Laboratory Tests ==== | ||
Blood Tests | ===== Blood Tests ===== | ||
1. Glucose | ====== 1. Glucose Elevated: ====== | ||
*Diabetes mellitus | |||
*Cushing’s syndrome | |||
*Early phase of hypovolemic shock (bleeding) | |||
*Pheochromocytoma | |||
2. Sodium: | |||
====== 2. Sodium: ====== | |||
*Normal levels (135-145 meq/L): | |||
**In most cases of dehydration (diarrhea, vomiting, excessive sweating) | |||
**Within 8 hours of onset of acute bleeding | |||
*Hyponatremia (<135 meq/L): | |||
**>8 hours after onset of bleeding, when interstitial fluid moves into the intravascular space | |||
**Sometimes after repeated vomiting or severe diarrhea | |||
**Water intoxication | |||
**Diabetic ketoacidosis (usually) | |||
**Cerebral salt wasting (head injury, tumor) | |||
**Hypernatremia (>145 meq/L) | |||
3. Potassium: | **Dehydration (sometimes) | ||
**Diabetes insipidus | |||
====== 3. Potassium: ====== | |||
*Hypokalemia: | |||
**Hyperaldosteronism | |||
**Anorexia nervosa | |||
4. Calcium: | **Hyperthyroidism | ||
*Hyperkalemia: | |||
**Diabetic ketoacidosis (usually) | |||
====== 4. Calcium: ====== | |||
*Hypercalcemia: | |||
5. CBC: | **Hyperparathyroidism | ||
**Hypervitaminosis D | |||
6. Hematocrit (HCT): | *Hypocalcemia: | ||
**Diabetic ketoacidosis (usually) | |||
7. Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN): | |||
====== 5. CBC: ====== | |||
*White blood cells increased or decreased in sepsis | |||
8. pH | |||
====== 6. Hematocrit (HCT): ====== | |||
9. Proteins: | *Decreased in water intoxication | ||
10. Hormone levels: | ====== 7. Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN): ====== | ||
*Increased in kidney failure | |||
*Decreased in water intoxication | |||
====== 8. pH: ====== | |||
*<7.3 (diabetic ketoacidosis) | |||
11. Urine Tests | ====== 9. Proteins: ====== | ||
*Hypoalbuminemia in liver cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome, severe malnutrition | |||
====== 10. Hormone levels: ====== | |||
*ADH | |||
*Decreased in central diabetes insipidus | |||
*Increased in nephrogenic diabetes insipidus | |||
*ACTH may be increased in pituitary adenoma or adrenal hyperplasia | |||
*Cortisol may be increased in adrenal adenoma | |||
*Aldosterone may be increased in adrenal adenoma or primary hyperaldosteronism | |||
Principles of management: | ====== 11. Urine Tests: ====== | ||
*Osmolality | |||
*<200 mOsm/kg in psychogenic polydipsia, diabetes insipidus | |||
*Specific gravity | |||
*<1.005 in diabetes insipidus | |||
*Glucose | |||
*Untreated diabetes mellitus 1 or 2 | |||
*Pheochromocytoma; rare | |||
*Proteins | |||
*In nephrotic syndrome | |||
*Sodium >20 meq/L: cerebral salt wasting | |||
====== Principles of management: ====== | |||
The treatment modalities intended to pacify vata and pitta dosha are applied for management of trishna. Specifically rain water, water processed with drugs having manda (mild) and sheeta (cool) properties, various medicated ghee mentioned in the text are used to manage trishna. | The treatment modalities intended to pacify vata and pitta dosha are applied for management of trishna. Specifically rain water, water processed with drugs having manda (mild) and sheeta (cool) properties, various medicated ghee mentioned in the text are used to manage trishna. | ||