explain this. the urine of a diabetic patient gives an intense brick red precipitate with benedict's reagent while the urine of a normal person hardly forms any precipitate
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Answer:
urine of a diabetic patient gives an brick red precipitate when mixed with Benedict's reagent because of the presence of higher glucose that is more than 2 to 2.5 percentage of sugar in blood .where as in normal person the blood sugar level would be constant therefore urine of normal person hardly forms any precipitate
Benedict's test
Explanation:
Benedict's test was used to deduct diabetes based on the principle that diabetic's urine contains sugar. This sugar when it reacts with the Benedict's solution, will change color depending on the volume of sugar present. If the resultant solution is blue, then there is no sugar in the urine. Other indicators are: Green - 0.5% sugar; yellow - 1% sugar; orange - 1.5% sugar; brick red - 2 % or more sugar. The colour of the mixture serves as a guide to the amount of glucose in the urine.