Self-imposed Dietary Restrictions Research Articles

The differential diagnosis of glycosurie

1. The differential diagnosis between diabetic and a non-diabetic glycosuria can be made only by a glucose tolerance test or by a blood sugar estimation two and a half hours following a heavy carbohydrate meal. 2. Numerous urine estimations for sugar for diagnostic purposes settle nothing and waste time. 3. Non-diabetic glycosuria is not a precursor of diabetes. 4. The renal threshold in a non-diabetic glycosuria is usually low. It varies on the ascent and descent of the curve, being higher on the former and lower on the latter. 5. Upon the finding of glycosuria, a diagnosis should be arrived at without delay (within twenty-four hours). This will eliminate the possibility of self-imposed dietary restrictions which distort the glucose tolerance curve (toward the diabetic side) and thus give false information. 6. There is no treatment for non-diabetic glycosuria and none is needed.