Assessing dehydration status in dengue patients using urine colourimetry and mobile phone technology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dengue is a systemic and dynamic disease with symptoms ranging from undifferentiated fever to dengue shock syndrome. Assessment of patients' severity of dehydration is integral to appropriate care and management. Urine colour has been shown to have a high correlation with overall assessment of hydration status. This study tests the feasibility of measuring dehydration severity in dengue fever patients by comparing urine colour captured by mobile phone cameras to established laboratory parameters.

Methodology/principal findings

Photos of urine samples were taken in a customized photo booth, then processed using Adobe Photoshop to index urine colour into the red, green, and blue (RGB) colour space and assigned a unique RGB value. The RGB values were then correlated

SUBMITTER: Chew N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature