What Does the Clinitest Test For

Clinitest tablets are used to test how much sugar (glucose) there is in a person’s urine. Poisoning occurs from swallowing these tablets. Clinitest tablets used to be used to check how well a person’s diabetes was being controlled.

What substances are detected using the Clinitest?

Clinitest (reagent tablet) is a semi-quantitative test used for the determination of total reducing substances in urine, which include glucose, galactose, lactose, and pentose.

Does Clinitest detect fructose?

Clinitest. Most hospitals use Clinitest in the diagnosis of galactokinase deficiency, the simplest laboratory test available to detect reducing sugars (eg, glucose, lactose, or fructose, which reduce copper salts in Clinitest tablets) in the urine.