Urine does not normally contain glucose. If the blood glucose level goes above a certain level, then some glucose ‘spills’ through the kidneys into the urine. A simple ‘dipstick’ test can detect glucose in a sample of urine. If you have glucose in your urine, you are likely to have diabetes.

However, some people have kidneys that are more ‘leaky’, and glucose may leak into urine with a normal blood level. Therefore, if your urine contains any glucose you should have a blood test to measure the blood level of glucose to confirm, or rule out, diabetes.

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Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but one day at school, one of our toilets had urine sprayed all over it and ants were crawling all over the urine. In my opinion, there must’ve been some sort of glucose in that stuff.

That sounds like a logical thing. Unless they were attracted to something else the urine contained. What else does it contain that it would attract ants? anybody know? Good thinking, condraz23!!

hmm.. well since ants use chemical sense as their primary sense, i would say it is possible that something in the urine atracted them, the same way it atracts sharks. but i have no idea of the exact chemical..

it can be glucose. from a diabetic’s urine.

maybe, though improbable. and not all ants are atracted to sugar..

Could it have been the moisture?

Actually, I’m doing this unit right now, yesterday in fact.

Urine would contain glucose if the individuals blood sugar level is already at it’s threshold. This would make the membranes in the proximinal tubule basically "shut out" glucose reabsorbtion. If your blood contains all the sugar that you eat, then you’d basically die of sugar poisoning. =P

Basically, you eat a few pounds of sugar a day, you’re going to be pissing out sugar.

I dont think so because I ve observed this in Toilet to; then why Ants will go for urine when they have plenty of water there??????? 😮

Ha! What a coincidence. While reading, I also found this; (note, this is a paraphrase of the text)

So, either the absence of insulin or profusely high blood sugar level will cause the excretion of glucose in the urine. [/quote]

It must have been glucose then 😀

😆 Obviously.

So if ants ever start gathering around me, I’ll know I have diabetes. Very useful information here!

Read again and, then tell me.. will ants gather around you for same purpose ❓ ….. 😯 …….lol……… 😆 😆

Has anyone ever crawled into an ant hill by acciedent? I have…and I was climbing a bluff. I had nowhere wlse to go cause it was so high up and dangerous to jump down or do anything unless climb up. I got into an ant hill and with me having Insectaphobia, I was freaking out!! I had no other choice but to just let them crawl on me, cause I couldn’t run or make any quick movements. Well, I finally got to the top and brushed them off of me!!

I know, I am an adventurous person.

You should’ve dug a hole and urinated in it. 😆

Sorry, but what exactly is glucose? 🙁

And the ants & and the dogs are weird! 😮

To put it simply, glucose is a simple sugar.

Check this out for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose

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Oh yeah, shows how easily I forget lol.