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If the urine is a little red, there may be occult blood in the urine. This is mainly because some red blood cells are carried out from the bladder and urethra, which causes the urine to be slightly red. If the number of red blood cells in the urine is high, it is generally mainly due to urinary tract infection, kidney inflammation, stones or kidney disease. These will cause the urine to be red. Patients need to go to the hospital for examination and testing in time.

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What does a high urine red blood cell count mean?

Either way, it is important to determine the cause of the high urine red blood cell count. Blood in the urine can be worrisome. Although in many cases the cause of an elevated red blood cell count is harmless, an elevated red blood cell count may indicate a serious medical condition. Hematuria often occurs without other signs or symptoms. Treatment of high red blood cell counts in urine depends on the cause. In hematuria, your kidneys or other parts of your urinary tract leak blood cells into your urine.

Reasons for high red blood cell counts in urine include:

1. Urinary tract infection: This occurs when bacteria enter the patient's body through the urethra and multiply in the bladder. Symptoms include a constant urge to urinate, pain and burning with urination, and extremely strong urine. For some people, especially older adults, the only sign of illness may be microscopic blood in the urine.

2. Pyelonephritis: This occurs when bacteria enter the kidney from the blood or move from the ureters to the kidney. Signs and symptoms are often similar to those of a bladder infection, but a kidney infection is more likely to cause fever and flank pain.

3. Stones: Minerals in concentrated urine sometimes form crystals on the walls of the kidneys or bladder. Over time, the crystals can turn into small, hard stones. Stones are usually painless, so the patient may not know they have a stone unless it causes a blockage or is passed. Bladder or kidney stones can also cause both heavy and microscopic bleeding.

4. Kidney disease: Microscopic urinary bleeding is a common symptom of glomerulonephritis, an inflammation of the kidney's filtration system. Glomerulonephritis may be part of a systemic disease, such as diabetes, or it may occur alone. Glomerulonephritis can be caused by viral or streptococcal infections, vascular disease, and immune problems that affect the small capillaries in the kidneys that filter blood.

5. Cancer: Visible bleeding in the urine may be a sign of advanced kidney, bladder, or prostate cancer. Unfortunately, in the early stages when these cancers are more treatable, patients may have no signs or symptoms.

6. Drugs: Anticancer drugs cyclophosphamide and penicillin can cause urinary tract bleeding. Visible urine can sometimes occur if you take anticoagulant medications such as aspirin and the blood thinner heparin, and your condition can also cause bladder bleeding.

Gross hematuria caused by strenuous exercise is rare and may be related to bladder trauma, dehydration, or red blood cell destruction that occurs during sustained aerobic exercise. Runners are often affected, but anyone can experience noticeable bleeding in the urine after strenuous exercise.