An app can do a urine test

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If you are someone who takes the smartphone to the bathroom, you know that now, your mobile, plus show news and other content of interest, you can do a urine test with a simple photograph. All thanks to a new application (Uchek) that has just been presented at a conference on Technology, Education and Design held in Los Angeles (California, USA).

According to its creator, Myshkin Ingawale, founder of Biosense Technologies company, just in seconds, Uchek can detect the presence of 10 elements in urine, including levels of glucose, protein, nitrite, bilirubin, sediment, ketones, leukocytes, urobilinogen and hematuria. How? By comparing photographs.

This ambitious first application analyzes the image of chemical strips with interested urine. With the taking of photographs at different times and a map with color code, Uchek have sufficient information to establish a comparative and display a chemical breakdown of the fluid.

Moreover, this 'app' makes reading the results , as it highlights and differentiates the correct levels which are not. The idea would be, as stated by its creator, so anyone can make use of your mobile device to carry out this medical test and also the patient can send the results to your doctor via e-mail so that the latter has into account.

Incredibly, if new application really worked and put into practice, avoid the hassle that comes with fasting or early to go first thing in the morning to the health center. More importantly, it could help diagnose and treat diseases in developing countries. Note that the chemical breakdown takes may indicate conditions such as diabetes and urinary tract infections.

Many will wonder, and said so in the presentation of Uchek, if possible an application for smartphone have sufficient precision to achieve accurate urinalysis . Ingawale responded that 1,200 samples tested with and said it was not only as accurate as the analysis in a laboratory, but also very useful for analytical monitoring of patients with diabetes, cancer and liver problems.

A health level, the app will be launched at the King Edward Memorial Hospital (Mumbai, India). There will study its accuracy compared with the apparatus used in the laboratory, so that your application can also valued in other health centers and hospitals. Given that current technology is used to analyze urine samples "can cost 7,000 euros smartphones using it would be much cheaper."

Given these expectations, the next question is when is this app available on the market. According to its creator, the application will be launched in Apple Store in late March for a price of $ 20 (about 15 euros), including chemical strips and color coded map.