A doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) is a physician with training that differs slightly from that of a medical doctor with an MD. He or she is equally educated, with four years of undergraduate training, four years of medical schools, and additional years if he or she chooses to specialize.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. You can use a refractometer but it's a bit spendy ranging in price from $100 - $500. Or an inexpensive solution is using Benedict's reagent solution. You put 1ml of Benedict's into 5 -7 drops of liquid that your testing and heat it over a flame in a testtube.The higher the sugar content, the sugar content turns an orange-red and the lesser amount of sugar the solution will turn yellow-green.aking the world better, one answer at a time. You can use a refractometer but it's a bit spendy ranging in price from $100 - $500. Or an inexpensive solution is using Benedict's reagent solution. You put 1ml of Benedict's into 5 -7 drops of liquid that your testing and heat it over a flame in a testtube.
I'm a bit in the dark. I can appreciate just why you feel in the dark. Blood and urine tests for glucose can be quite confusing. Whether or not you have diabetes mellitus, or sugar diabetes, depends upon the exact nature of your 'high glucose level' and how it was discovered. The diagnosis of diabetes is usually made if the fasting plasma glucose is 7.0mmol/l or above, or if the random level is greater than 11.1mmol/l. Cut off levels for diagnosis may vary a little between different hospital lab units. It is also possible for someone to have glucose in their urine and not have diabetes.