Article: Glucose-Estimation in tear fluid-Its diagnostic significance-a preliminary study.(Article)

Byline: R. Mediratia, J. Rohatgi

Of the diffusable non-ionised substances in the tear fluid, greater interest has been focussed on glucose and different workers have assigned different values to its concentration in the tear. This is partly due to the different methods of estimation.

The methods (for the estimating glucose in tear fluid) are both quantiative and qualitative.

For the qualitative tests-a commercial preparation clinistix (Amesco) has been used to detect glycosurea and to estimate blood sugar level as also tear glucose in diabetics (Lewis, 1957).

Clinistix paper test strip is applied to the lower conjunctival ...

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