Urine color reveals disease signals

Did you know that the color of our urine can be a "signal flare" of disease? When the human body's metabolism is abnormal or suffers from a certain disease, the color of the urine will show special changes. Therefore, we cannot ignore or underestimate the change in urine color, because urine color can be used to judge the condition of the disease. Isn't this a subtle point? Below, the editor will show you in detail.

Urine is composed of different substances such as urine color, urobilin, and urohemoglobin. These ingredients are all products of metabolism in the body and are in a certain proportion. Therefore, under normal circumstances, urine will maintain a certain concentration, so the color of urine is relatively fixed. The color of normal urine may vary depending on drinking, sweating, and activity level, generally ranging from light yellow to dark amber.

Milky urine:

Also known as chyluria, this is caused by the inability to absorb chyle from the intestines, causing the chyle to reflux into the urine. There are congenital factors that cause chyluria, such as congenital lymphatic valve dysfunction; there are also secondary factors, such as common filariasis and purulent infection of the urinary system.

Brown urine:

It is common in obstructive jaundice, cirrhosis, hepatitis A, arsenic, chloroform and other poisoning.

Blue-green urine:

Common in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

Red urine:

Urine that is red and can be seen with the naked eye is called gross hematuria. Urine contains a large number of red blood cells. There are many causes of hematuria, the most common of which are inflammation of the urogenital system, stones and tumors. Such as various types of nephritis, renal tuberculosis, acute cystitis, urethritis, stones in the above-mentioned parts, malignant tumors, etc. Systemic diseases such as leukemia, scarlet fever, congestive heart failure, etc. also often cause hematuria.

Dark red urine with yellowish color:

Seen in bilirubinuria, often hepatitis A.

Dark brown urine:

It is common in phenol poisoning, malignant melanoma, acute glomerulonephritis, etc.

Hemoglobinuria:

Refers to the presence of free hemoglobin in the urine. Since there are no red blood cells or only a small amount of red blood cells in the urine, the urine is clear and looks like red wine. It is common in malaria, favism, incompatible blood transfusion, hemolytic anemia, paroxysmal hemoglobinuria and intraperitoneal hemorrhage.

The editor believes that we should pay more attention to our bodies, and we should not ignore the color of our urine. Prevention of serious illness starts with every small detail.