12 What the Color of Your Urine Can Tell You

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12 What the Color of Your Urine Can Tell You

1. Clear urine, colorless.

This means that you are drinking more water than the recommended daily intake, which can lead to low electrolyte levels in your body. In some cases, extremely low electrolyte levels can be fatal. If your urine is clear sometimes, this is normal. However, if your urine is clear all the time, you should reduce the amount of water you drink. Clear urine can also indicate certain diseases, such as diabetes, taking diuretics, kidney disease, etc.

2. Cloudy white urine

It can be found in people who drink a lot of milk which causes phosphate crystals or caused by urinary tract infections such as pyelonephritis, cystitis, and it can also be caused by pus in the urine or too much protein in the body.

3. Urine is pale yellow to golden yellow.

This means that your body’s hydration levels are normal. You should note what your normal urine color is so that you can tell when your urine color is unusual.

4. Dark yellow urine

This is a normal urine color, but you should drink more water.

5. Bright yellow urine 

Bright yellow or neon colored urine is caused by taking vitamins and supplements. It is not harmful, but it is a sign that you are taking more vitamins than your body needs. Therefore, you should consult your doctor before starting any vitamins or supplements.

6 Orange urine

Orange urine can indicate dehydration and can indicate gallbladder or liver problems. It can also be caused by eating carrots, taking high doses of vitamin B2, and certain medications that cause orange urine, such as sulfasalazine, phenazopyridine, isoniazid, and some laxatives.

7. Dark orange or brown urine

It can be caused by severe dehydration, jaundice, or rhabdomyolysis. Certain medications can also cause brown urine, such as metronidazole, which is used to treat bacterial infections, or quinine, which is used to prevent malaria.

8. Dark brown or black urine

It can be caused by eating large amounts of certain beans, rhubarb, aloe vera, or indicate certain medical conditions, such as liver disease or skin cancer. It can also be caused by a side effect of medications, such as the antimalarial drug quinine and the antibiotic metronidazole.

9 Pink and red urine 

Pink to red urine can mean blood in the urine or be a sign of kidney disease, a urinary tract infection, kidney stones, tumors or cancer of the kidney, bladder or prostate gland, eating certain foods such as blueberries, rhubarb, beetroot, or after a hard workout that causes a harmless muscle injury.

10 green urine

Asparagus can cause your urine to turn green and smell. Certain medications and green food coloring can also cause your urine to turn green. It can also be caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection.

11 Blue urine

It can be caused by a rare genetic metabolic disorder that causes abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood (familial hypercalcemia or blue diaper syndrome) or by bacteria that cause urinary tract infections. Most commonly, it is caused by medications or blue food coloring, such as the pain reliever indomethacin, the antidepressant amitriptyline and the acid-blocking agent cimetidine, and the anesthetic propofol.

12. Purple urine

Purple urine is known locally as purple urine bag syndrome, and is a rare condition that occurs in catheters with urinary tract infections that cause the urine to turn purple.