Eating a rainbow of fruits and veggies is nice in your well being, however what about when your urine turns into one among a spectrum of colours?

Regular urine shade varies however often ranges from clear to pale yellow. The actual hue depends upon how a lot water you drink. Fluids dilute the yellow pigments in urine. So the extra you drink, the clearer your urine appears to be like. When you drink much less, the yellow shade turns into stronger.

Some meals and drugs can change the colour of urine. For instance, meals like beets, blackberries and fava beans can flip urine pink or purple. Some drugs additionally may give urine vivid tones, comparable to orange or greenish-blue.

An uncommon urine shade additionally is usually a signal of a well being downside, nevertheless. For occasion, some urinary tract infections can flip urine milky white. Kidney stones, some cancers and different illnesses generally make urine look purple resulting from blood.

Here are some uncommon urine colours, together with issues that may trigger them.

Red or pink urine

Red urine is not at all times an indication of a severe well being downside. Red or pink urine could be brought on by:

• Blood
  Health issues that may trigger blood within the urine embody an enlarged prostate, tumors that are not most cancers, and kidney stones and cysts. Vigorous train can also trigger blood within the urine. Blood within the urine is frequent in urinary tract infections and with kidney stones. Those issues usually trigger ache. Painless bleeding may be an indication of a extra significant issue, comparable to most cancers.
• Foods
  Beets, blackberries and rhubarb can flip urine purple or pink.
• Medicines
  Red or pink urine is feasible for those who take drugs for tuberculosis, urinary tract ache or constipation.

Orange urine

Orange urine could be brought on by:

• Medicines
  Constipation medicines can flip urine orange, as can drugs that lessens swelling and irritation, and a few chemotherapy medicines for most cancers.
• Vitamins
  Some nutritional vitamins, comparable to A and B-12, can flip urine orange or yellow-orange.
• Health issues
  Orange urine is usually a signal of an issue with the liver or bile duct, primarily for those who even have light-colored stools. Dehydration can also make your urine look orange.

Blue or inexperienced urine

Blue or inexperienced urine could be brought on by:

• Dyes
  Some brightly coloured meals dyes may cause inexperienced urine. Dyes used for some kidney and bladder assessments can flip urine blue.
• Medicines
  Some medicines for melancholy, ulcers and acid reflux disorder can flip urine greenish-blue. Medications for ache, arthritis and sleep can also flip urine inexperienced.
• Health issues
  A uncommon illness known as familial benign hypercalcemia may cause youngsters to have blue urine. Urinary tract infections brought on by a sure micro organism may cause inexperienced urine.

Dark brown or cola-colored urine

Brown urine could be brought on by:

• Foods
  Eating plenty of fava beans, rhubarb or aloe may cause darkish brown urine.
• Medicines
  Some medicines can darken urine, together with these used to deal with and stop malaria, constipation, excessive ldl cholesterol and seizures. Some antibiotics and muscle relaxers can also darken urine.
• Health issues
  Some liver and kidney issues and urinary tract infections can flip urine darkish brown. So can bleeding contained in the physique, known as a hemorrhage. A bunch of sicknesses primarily affecting the pores and skin or the nervous system, known as porphyria, can also trigger brown urine.
• Extreme train
  A muscle harm from excessive coaching may cause tea- or cola-colored urine. The harm can result in kidney injury.

Cloudy or murky urine

Urinary tract infections and kidney stones may cause urine to look cloudy or murky.

Keep in thoughts that colours can look barely totally different to totally different folks. For occasion, what appears to be like purple to you may look orange to another person. Talk along with your healthcare staff when you’ve got

Concerns and specifically when you’ve got painful urination or darkish orange urine, which is usually a signal that your liver is not working accurately.

Ashley Pountney is a doctor assistant in Urology in Austin and Albert Lea, Minnesota.