URINE COLOR is Your HEALTH INDICATOR – 10 TRUTHS

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Most of us never even glance at our pee before we flush it out of sight. But the appearance of your urine  and its features like, the color, smell, and the frequency  can give you a hint about what’s going on inside your body.

Urine is your body’s liquid waste excreted by your kidneys which filter out toxins and other unwanted stuff from your blood.  Its mainly composed of water, salt, and chemicals called urea and uric acid.

Now we will look into the 10 Useful Hints about Urine Color as an Important Indicator of Your Health and well being.

 

1. Pale yellow to Gold Color Urine: This is a perfectly normal urine specially an early morning sample. This normal color of urine comes from a pigment called urochrome. So, you need not worry about this color.
2. No Color / Water Like: This is because you must have been drinking a lot of water or on a diuretic medicine prescribed by your doctor to get rid of body fluids specially if you have a high blood pressure.
3. Dark honey like or brown-colored urine: Physiological: When you see this color, Please Do not Panic! This could be a sign that you are dehydrated and have not taken fluids or water for many hours like If you are Fasting like How Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan. If this is the case, you just need to take lot of fluids right away. If this corrects your urine color to Normal, you need not do any further investigation or no need to consult your doctor.
   Pathological: But if you are sure that dehydration is not the cause of this color, It may also be a warning sign of liver disease – like if you have Jaundice, so see your doctor if it doesn’t get better after a day or so.
4. Red or Pink Urine: Again Do not Panic! Physiological:Firstly rule out some benign causes of this color like – certain foods such as carrots, blackberries, beets, and rhubarb can turn your urine a pinkish-red color. This can also be a side effect of medications like the antibiotic rifampin or a drug called phenazopyridine usually prescribed for urinary tract infections.
   Pathological: cause of reddish urine can be due to blood in your urine. It can be a sign of kidney disease, a UTI – that’s urinary tract infections, Nephro or UroLithiasis – that means stone in your Kidneys or urinary tract, prostate disease like prostate inflammation called prostatitis, or rarely a tumor like kidney cancer or prostate cancer.
5. Orange Urine: When your urine resembles an orange juice, Firstly as usual simple Physiological causes to be considered like certain medications like high-dose vitamin B2, the UTI drug phenazopyridine, or the antibiotic isoniazid – INH prescribed for tuberculosis. Pathological: It could also be a sign that you have dehydration or there is some hepatobiliary problem – I mean Liver and bile duct disease and Jaundice.
6. Blue or green Urine: This can be due to some dyes in your food or due to medications you are taking, like the anesthetic propofol or the allergy or asthma drug promethazine.
7. Besides the color, If your Urine is FOAMY? Then You should check in with your doctor if it consistently looks foamy and frothy. It may be a sign you have protein in your urine, which means you have some problem with your kidneys.
8. The SMELL – Normally Urine doesn’t usually have a strong smell. But some foods — like asparagus can alter the urine odor. Also vitamin B-6 supplements can change the urine odor. One more possibility is When you are dehydrated, your urine can get too much concentrated giving it a strong smell of ammonia.
9. Strong Pungent Smell: It its something really strong odor, This can also be a sign of a UTI, diabetes, a bladder infection, or metabolic diseases.
10. Frequency / The Number of times You Pass Urine in a Day: This depends from person to person and their daily activities and lifestyle. But most people need to empty their bladders 6 to eight times a day. But if you notice a sudden change in frequency without any lifestyle change, then it can indicate some problem such as a UTI, kidney disease, diabetes, an enlarged prostate in men, vaginitis in women and so on.

Its always better to consult with your doctor and perform a simple Urine Analysis test to evaluate this issues further and reach to a conclusion.

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