Interpretation of Specific Gravity by Dipstick
Abstract
Abstract Sir.—The widespread use of dipsticks such as the Ames N-Multistix-SG strip (Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, Ind) has some built-in problems as well as a form of medical laboratory absurdity. Comments have been made in the more general literature, but to date we have not read a comment in a pediatric journal. I refer specifically to the use of the term specific gravity that one reads from these strips. The measurement of specific gravity in urine has been used in clinical medicine...