Recently, my Huppy asked me whether we should both check our blood glucose levels and I was like “Where did that come from?! A bit random!”
He had found an ant or some ants (not too sure whether it was singular or plural) around the squat toilet in the wetroom…. And he proceeded to tell me a story about his friend’s dad…
One night the family came home to find lots of ants around the squat toilet because the ants were attracted to the sugar in the urine….! To cut the story short - the Dad was diagnosed with diabetes!
At first, my instinct was to think - Yuck… whose been leaking and not aiming correctly and gross - all those germs!!!! Let’s wash the toilets…. And then, I was like, “Are you sure? Really?” I suppose, it makes sense… If you have sugar in your urine - it should attract ants! So I was really impressed and decided to google it!
I found that the ancient Indians tested for diabetes by observing whether ants were attracted to a person’s urine, and called the ailment “sweet urine disease” (Madhumeha)… Ancient Hindu writings, many thousands of years old, also document how black ants and flies were attracted to the urine of diabetics…. And there’s more information! Wow… back to the old days!
Well, thought I would share this interesting info with you!!! Another thing is - remember to clean your toilet too!!!
