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June 29, 2017 By Trupti Hingad 10 Comments

Urine Colour – Can be a good indicator of health

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In my previous blog, I discussed how your poop describes your health status. In this blog, I shall tell you how your Pee says a lot about your health.

In a day we all visit the bathroom many times to pee but, seldom does it cross our mind to check our Pee colour before we flush it out of sight.

Urine/ Pee is body’s waste products in a liquid form mainly made of water, salt and chemical called urea and uric acid.

Kidney creates urine by flushing out toxins and all the bad stuff from the blood. A lot of factors like medications, food, and illness can affect the urine colour or odour.When there is a malfunction, it contains clues to the problem. The colour of the urine can be a helpful indicator.

Ideally, the colour of the urine should be pale yellow colour. It indicates you are well hydrated. The pale yellow colour is because of the pigment produced by the body called—UROCHROME and UROBILIN.

Let’s understand how the colour of the urine describes your health. There are three main causes for abnormal urine colour

  • Food that you eat
  • Drugs or Medication that you take
  • Health Issues

What does Colour of the Urine Indicate?

Transparent: If the pee colour is completely clear, its sign of over hydration. Sometimes excess hydration may lead to dilution of salts in the body.

Brown colour: If you are noticing shades of brown in your urine.Then it may be a sign that you are dehydrated. It can also indicate the problem in the liver. If there is liver disease, some of the bile salts that the liver should be processing and eliminate through stool are hanging around in blood and thus end up in the urine.

Note: If you eat a lot of aloe, fava beans, or rhubarb, these foods can also turn your urine brown.

Red colour: If your urine colour is red. Foods like beets and blackberries can do it. But if it persists for more days then it can be a sign of blood in the urine(hematuria) which can happen due to kidney disease or urinary tract infections (UTI) or cancers. So, In this case, contact doctor immediately.

Blue or Green colour: Good amount of consumption of asparagus can lead to green colour. But, certain medications, genetic diseases, and UTI can also make your pee green.

Orange: When your pee is the colour of a citrus flavoured soft drink, it’s probably because of medicines like high-dose vitamin B2, the UTI drug phenazopyridine, or the antibiotic isoniazid

Dark yellow: It indicates that your body is very much dehydrated. It is also linked to your Vitamin stash- B Vitamins, especially B12 results in this dramatic hue change.

Cloudy or milky: Don’t just pay attention to the colour of your pee. Cloudy or milky urine most often indicates the presence of white blood cells and may indicate an infection.

Bubbles/frothy urine: Excessive bubbles or ‘frothing’ that happens every time you urinate can indicate an excess of protein in your urine.

Does your urine smell?

Pee doesn’t usually have a strong smell. But, some foods — especially asparagus, which has a smelly sulphur compound can change the odour. So, you should vitamin B-6 supplements. When you’re dehydrated and your pee gets very concentrated, it can smell strongly of ammonia.

Normal urine should have a slight odour. Sometimes strong odour like ammonia may indicate a urinary tract infection, and if it smells sweet, it may be a sign of excess sugar and diabetes.

How often should you urinate?

It can be different for everyone but, normally people need to empty bladder up to 8times a day.

If you notice you suddenly have to pee more often than usual, it could be a sign of a health problem like a UTI, diabetes, an enlarged prostrate in men, vaginitis in women, or a problem with the wall of your bladder called interstitial cystitis.

Urine is something that most of us must take a look and prevent any conditions to prevail.

Keep yourself well hydrated and stay healthy!!

About Trupti Hingad

Trupti Hingad believes that by being fit, you add life to your years, not years to your life! Also, health is not about the weight you lose, but about the life you gain! She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics and Nutrition and has certification in Diabetes Education and Yoga Asanas and Pranayam. With vast experience in the field of diet, fitness and lifestyle Management, she truly believe in maintaining a healthy body for which, she practices what she preaches. She loves to try out new cuisines and their healthier versions. Honestly, that’s the secret of her fitness she says. She feels that a balance in life, especially when it comes to food, mind, thoughts and emotions, is a must in order to lead a happy and successful life

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  1. Shankar says

    June 29, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Good and nice blog one thing I want to confirm that from night 10 o’clock to morning 5 o’clock ie in 7 hours i go to pee for 4 to 5 times and in day time 6 to 7 times totally 10 to 12 times in 24 hours regarding colour once in the morning and once in the evening it will be yellow rest all the times it will pale yellow as I take BP tablet In the morning and calcium and neruobin forte tablet in the night now I want to know what is the position of my health and the remedy

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  2. Aditya says

    June 30, 2017 at 10:33 am

    Thanks for taking the time to write this. Very helpful and easily understandable. Appreciate the hard work.

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  3. Pavan says

    June 30, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    This is new information to me. Right from my childhood I was taught that urine should be clear or transparent. But you have mentioned that transparent/clear urine means over-hydrated.

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  4. Praveen says

    July 1, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    If I am drinking 3 lt water a day and have transparent urine, do I need to to reduce water consumption.

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  5. Hussain says

    July 2, 2017 at 12:43 am

    Very Informative! Thanks! For sharing

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  6. Vinay says

    July 2, 2017 at 8:23 am

    Hi, very nice article.. what are te cures if u have a very bubbly/frothy urine.. i am 37yrs male, n my uric acid is at 6.4.. is it an indicator to something.. i try having lemon water n lot of fruits veggies n milk, pulses.. wat r the ways to reduce..

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  7. Adil says

    July 2, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    Excess of urine( more than 8 times a day) can also happen because of over hydration right?
    I have heard that ideally water intake should be around 3 ltrs per day, but whenever I try to drink near/above 3 litres my urine color turns transparent. Is it unhealthy or am I not drinking at right intervals?

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  8. Deepak Dutta says

    July 3, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    My urine is dark yellow mostly as i am on rheumatoid arthritis medication. Although my intake of water is pretty good since i drik almost 4.5 to 5 litres of water a day. Is it ok please revert back.

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  9. SN Sharma says

    July 3, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Hi, I have a query, I’m a no smoker/non nicotine user , daily jogger and keep very healthy lifestyle which include adequate exercises, balance meal.recently done some insurance of , the insurance company tested few test , all went normal, but y urine test was positive for nicotine, how it is possible that nicotine found in my urine sample, because of that they have pure me into smoker caterogiry and reduced my coverage by 25%, can u help me as what can be the possible reason.

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  10. Ravish Dubey says

    July 4, 2017 at 1:16 am

    Since 2 years my wife has complain of going to loo frequently, earlier we thought it may be diabetes as she had gestational diabetes during pregnancy 4 years back. But even after checking multiple time the sugar levels seems to be in limit.
    As per above she can have vaginitis or interstitial cystitis? Who will be the best doc to see this? Gynecologist?

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