Is it necessary for ants to be diabetic when they climb on their own urine?

When untreated diabetic patients have high blood sugar, urine usually contains glucose. It is said that as early as 1000 years ago, the ancients discovered diabetes. At that time, there was no instrument testing, and they couldn't taste it with their mouths. They spilled urine on the ground to see if ants would gather. If so, it indicates that the owner of urine has diabetes. A few years ago, when doctors asked for advice, they also asked one more question: Are there any ants crawling in the urine?

Drink too much, will urine sugar increase?

First of all, solve a problem: does the human body consume a lot of sugar, and the sugar in urine will also increase?

We took two urine samples from healthy experimenters for testing: one was normal urine; The other is a urine sample after drinking two bottles of 500 ml carbonated drinks 1 hour.

Two urine samples were tested, and the results showed that the two samples had the same value, and no diabetes was detected. After drinking a lot of sugary drinks, the sugar in urine did not increase.

"Whether sugar will be excreted from urine depends on the' gate' renal sugar threshold. The renal glucose threshold of normal people is 8.9 ~10 mmol/L. If the concentration exceeds the renal glucose threshold in vivo, urine will contain sugar. "

After normal people eat sugar, islet β cells will secrete insulin, which will reduce blood sugar in the body and the sugar in urine will not increase. The biggest problem of diabetics is that they can't secrete enough insulin, or the ability of insulin to lower blood sugar is not enough, which leads to the increase of blood sugar.

In this way, normal people don't have to worry about the increase of urine sugar when drinking drinks.

The experimental environment makes ants uneasy.

Don't buy urine for diabetics

Talk about the relationship between ants and diabetes. As far as feeding habits are concerned, ants can be divided into three types: predatory, omnivorous and vegetarian. For vegetarian and omnivorous ants, sugar is their favorite.

Ant workshop, do experiments with arched ants inside. Archeback ant is a typical omnivorous ant, with a large body. A small amount of coke dipped in cotton as bait immediately caused many arched ants to lick it.

A urine sample of a diabetic patient was collected. The urine sugar level detected by test paper was "four plus signs", and the sugar content was relatively high.

Put 20 ants with urine samples of diabetic patients into a big fish tank. Unexpectedly, the ants didn't lick it this time. An hour later, at most, only a few ants came forward to smell it, and they left soon. Change to normal urine and the result is the same.

Is there not enough sugar in the urine? Theoretically, the sugar in this urine is enough to arouse the interest of ants, but the fish tank used in the experiment does not block the environment, making ants feel insecure. Moreover, there was enough food and water in the workshop where ants used to live, which may be the reason why ants don't lick the urine of diabetic patients.

High urine sugar content does not mean diabetes.

Although diabetic patients have high urine sugar, which will attract ants under appropriate circumstances, it is not accurate to judge whether a person has diabetes only by urine sugar.

For example, throughout pregnancy, the renal glucose threshold will decrease. When you eat a lot of sugar as usual, there will be sugar in your urine, but that doesn't mean you have diabetes.

In addition, the sugar detected in urine is not necessarily glucose, but may also be galactose and fructose.

Blood sugar level is the scientific standard to judge diabetes. Therefore, if you suspect that you have diabetes, you should go to the hospital to check your blood sugar in time. If your fasting blood sugar exceeds 7 mmol/L, you can be sure that you have diabetes.