Normal urine smells aromatic! What might colorful urine indicate?

Did you know that fresh urine excreted by a normal human body does not smell foul, but instead emits a faint aromatic odor (or ammonia)!

Very shocked, right?

The reason why it smells bad is that urine has been stored for a long time, breeding bacteria and decomposing urea, producing a strong ammonia smell, which is also a bad smell...

However, a small number of people feel that: My urine is neither fragrant nor smelly, but has a strange smell, which must attract attention!

For example, urine with an apple smell may be diabetic ketoacidosis, urine with a rancid smell may be a bacterial infection, and urine with a pungent ammonia smell may be cystitis or urinary retention...

Just from the smell of urine, you can smell the health signals released by the body. And other information in urine hides more secrets.

What might colorful urine mean?

First, let's take a look at the color of normal urine:

Transparent color: You drink too much water, drink less~

Light straw color: You are well hydrated, keep it up.

Transparent yellow: This is also normal, keep it up~

Dark yellow: There is nothing wrong with your body, but drink more water~

Amber or honey yellow: Serious lack of water, quickly add some water~

Red: There are many reasons for hematuria. The depth of its color is related to the number of red blood cells in the urine. When there are many red blood cells, it can appear the color of meat washing water.

Disease: Injury and bleeding in any part of the urinary tract can cause hematuria, such as acute nephritis, urinary tract stones, tuberculosis, tumors, congenital malformations of the urinary system or exercise-induced hematuria;

Systemic diseases such as blood diseases and certain infectious diseases may also cause hematuria;

When muscles are severely squeezed, myoglobin enters the blood and is excreted through the kidneys, and the urine may also turn dark red.

In addition to disease factors, some foods such as dragon fruit, beets, purple radish, and drugs such as rifamycins may also turn urine red.

If you have ruled out dietary causes and still experience painless, asymptomatic hematuria, be sure to go to the hospital for a check-up, as this is most likely a sign of a urinary system tumor.

Brown urine: A large number of red blood cells are destroyed in the blood vessels, and the urine will appear dark tea or soy sauce-like in color.

Diseases: acute nephritis, acute icteric hepatitis, renal crush injury, extensive burns, hemolytic anemia, wrong blood transfusion, etc.

Urine may also be this color after strenuous exercise or taking medications such as nitrofurantoin and rhubarb.

White urine: one is white turbid urine, which can be seen in pyuria, chyluria or urine containing a large number of crystals, mainly due to urinary tract infection, prostatitis, gonorrhea, non-gonococcal urethritis, etc.

The other is white chyluria, which is milk-colored and sometimes mixed with white clots. It is often caused by filariasis or obstruction of the perirenal lymphatic vessels. When the urine contains a large amount of crystals, its color is like lime water.

Blue-green urine: Usually related to medication, such as taking triamterene, methylene blue, indigo carmine, metoclopramide, propofol, cimetidine or injecting methylene blue injection, etc., will cause blue-green urine, which will return to normal after the effect of the medicine wears off.

Disease: If there is no experience of taking medicine, it may be cholera, typhus, primary hypercalcemia, vitamin D poisoning, biliary obstruction, Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, etc.

Purple urine: It is more common in purple urine bag syndrome, which is a rare clinical phenomenon that is common in patients with long-term indwelling catheters. Usually, when an infection occurs, the urine in the urine bag produces indigo and indirubin under the action of bacteria. The combination of these two substances causes the urine to appear purple.

Black urine: It is rare and often occurs in patients with acute intravascular hemolysis, such as malignant malaria. It is medically known as blackwater fever and is one of the most serious complications of malignant malaria. Melanoma can also cause black urine.

Frequent trips to the toilet may not be normal

In addition to paying attention to the color of urine, the frequency of urination is also something to pay attention to.

Normally, you urinate 4 to 6 times during the day and 0 to 2 times at night. When the number of urinations significantly exceeds this, it may be frequent urination.

Of course, frequent trips to the toilet due to drinking too much water, mental stress, cold weather, etc., do not count...

After excluding these physiological reasons, if pathological frequent urination occurs, it may be caused by inflammatory stimulation, physical weakness after illness, parasitic disease, etc., which should be taken seriously and medical treatment should be sought in time if necessary.

Urine can reflect the health of the body, so don’t just go after peeing, but smell and look carefully~

Source: Youlai Healthy Life