Comparative Studies on Physical Properties of Urine and Urine-Oxalic Acid Mixture of Healthy Individual and Patients Suffering from Urinary Calculi.

Abstract

Physical properties such as density, viscosity, surface tension,
pH, and specific electrical conductivity of urine of healthy individual
and urine of patients suffering from gall bladder stones and
kidney stones have been measured. It has been found that basic
physical properties differ significantly in the case of healthy individual
and those of people suffering from urinary calculi. Urines
were incubated with goat bladder membranes to measure physical
properties. It has been found that while density and specific electrical
conductivity decrease continuously with increase in oxalic acid
concentration in urine, other properties show oscillatory behaviour
at certain concentrations of oxalic acid in urine.