THE COLOR OF YOUR URINE--WHAT IT MEANS

The Color of Your Urine--What It Means
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January 26, 2008

By Arthur Stevens, Contributing Columnist

My urine is oily, what does this mean? My urine is deep orange,
should I be concerned? What color is my urine if I have
diabetes? Most of us study our urine, and are either relieved or
secretly worried about what we see. This article is a handy
reference to guide you through the various color changes of
your urine, and lets you know what you should do about what
you see.

Your urine is a byproduct of digestion. You drink water and
other fluids. They enter your stomach, then your colon, where
the small intestines take the water , mixes it with food and
bacteria to break the food down. Excess water is then passed
into your blood stream and then through to your kidneys,
which use the water to help cleanse your blood of wast, toxins
and impurities. Your kidneys then flush the water out thorough
the uretha and it leaves your body as urine.

So urine, when every things goes right, is a combination of
95% water and 5% waste compounds from your kidneys.
Every day, you urinate about 1.5 to 2.5 quarts of urine.
Because you also lose about a glass of water just breathing out
(which is why your breath is moist when you blow on a mirror
or a window) and more than a quart as sweat, even if you are
sedentary), it is easy to go into water deficit and end up with
an abnormal urine color.

Urine is supposed to be a pale yellow and, contrary to popular
belief, odorless. Pungent urine usually mean that you need to
drink more water.

Here is a chart of urine colors you might see and what they
mean:

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Urine Color	Cause	Food That Produces Color	What You Should Do
Pale Yellow	Normal. A chemical called urochrome is responsible for tinting normal urine a shade of yellow. The more water you drink, the clearer is your urine. Murky urine can be caused by kidney stones or urinary tract infections. Urine which has absolutely no color is a symptom of diabetes insipidus.	Pale yellow is the color of normal urine	Nothing. If your urine has no color at all, this can indicate diabetes insipidus.
Brown	Fava beans, aloe and rhubarb. Medical conditions such as liver cirrhosis and hepatitus and acute glomerulonephritis. Medications such as chloroquine and nitrofuratoin, primaquine, methocaarbamol. metronidosole and laxatives with cascara and senna.	Fava beans, aloe and rhubarb.	If you are not eating any of the foods which can turn urine brow, see a doctor for a full blood screening.
Deep Yellow Orange or Amber	Dehydration is the most common cause of dark orange urine.	Colored drinks can produce this color. Carrots, Vitamin C and foods high in carotine can also produce orange urine. Medications which can turn your urine orange include Pyridium and Coumidin.	Drink more water.
Bright Yellow	Excess B vitamins		Reduce or eliminate all B vitamin pills or supplements. If the color persists, cut back on foods rich in B vitamins such as whole grains.
Red	Porphyria, a disease that attacks your nervous system and skin. It turns your urine the color of port wine, hence the name of the disease. Red urine can also indicate the presence of blood in your urine (a condition called hematuria) which can be caused by exercise, a urinary tract infection or blood from your kidneys	Blueberries, colored cereals, colored drinks such as kool-aid, beets and boysenberries can sometimes change your urine color to a shade of red. Laxatives (especially chocolate laxatives), chlorpromazine (thorazine),anasthet ic propofol (Diprovan), lead poisoning, mercury poisoning.	See a doctor,to rule out porphyria or blood in your kidneys.or lead or mercury poisoning
Oily	Fried and oily foods can cause oily drops in your urine.	Fred and oily foods.	Eat less oil. Some whole grains (brown rice, whole grain breads and cereal, quinoa can help to reduce oil in your stomach and in your urine.
Blue or Dark Green	"Blue diaper syndrom" (familial hypercalcemia) is a rare cause of blue urine. More common causes are dyes in medications such as Urised, Trac tabs, amitriptyline, Tagamet, indomethacin. Certain multivitamins can also turn urine blue	Asparagus	See a doctor if you are not on any of the medications which commonly turn urine blue.

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