Bile Salts

Bile Salts

Bile Salts, If bilirubin is found in your urine, it may be a sign that you have: A liver disease, such as hepatitis or cirrhosis. A blockage in your bile ducts, the small tubes that carry bile out of your liver.

Bile salts are one of the primary components of bile. Bile is a greenish-yellow fluid made by your liver and stored in the gallbladder.

Hay’s Sulphur Test:

Principle:

Bile salts lower the surface tension of urine, and hence sulfur sinks to the bottom.

Interference:

Bile Salts Present.

Procedure:

• Take 3ml of urine in a test tube and sprinkle a Pinch of sulfur Powder.
• Control: 3ml water + 3 Pinch of sulfur Powder.

Observation:

Test: Sulphus Powder sinks to the bottom Control: Sulphur Powder floats.