Normal urine color from light yellow to deep amber. The only difference is in the degree of dilution with water. If we drink enough, the urine is concentrated and darker.
Sometimes the color of urine is added to the pigment of the drugs or food.
Unusual color of urine may be a sign of illness. Then, the urine will be red, blue, green, dark brown or muddy.
When going to the doctor
If there is visible blood in the urine. Usually this is due to an infection or kidney stones, and is accompanied by pain.
Painless bleeding can be a sign of more serious problems, such as cancer.
Dark or orange urine. Especially in combination with skin lightening and yellowing of the chair. This is a sign of problems in the liver.
other causes
Color of urine can change due to medications, foods or nutritional supplements.
The perception of all these colors is very subjective. What you think red, another may appear orange.
Red or pink urine
Blood. The reasons could be infections, prostate problems, tumors, renal cysts, long running, stones.
Food. Beets, blackberries, rhubarb.
Medications. Antibiotics, phenazopyridine (analgesic agent for bladder), senna-based laxatives.
Orange urine
Medications. Anti-inflammatory drug sulfasalazine, some laxatives, medicines for chemotherapy.
Liver problems.
Dehydration.
Blue or green color
dyes (surprisingly). Food colors can produce green, health - blue.
Medications. Indomethacin, amitriptyline and anesthetic drug propofol may color urine blue or green color.
Disease. One of the inherited disease called - "blue diaper syndrome". Pseudomonas urinary tract infection urine stains sometimes green.
Dark brown or tea-colored
Food. Beans, rhubarb or aloe may color the urine brown.
Medications. Antimalarials, metronidazole, laxatives.
Medical conditions. Diseases of the liver or kidney. Muscle damage during intense physical stress.
cloudy urine
Infection or kidney stones.
