What does color of your urine means | Explained by The Best Nephrologist

What does color of your urine means | Explained by The Best Nephrologist
Colors of urine indicate underlying disease or drug or condition
Urine color is because of UROCHROME... , A pigment in urine

✅ very clear like water mean you are drinking too much water. Can cause more burden on kidneys and Hyponatremia

✅Red
Makes you Fearful

Blood. Stones. Cancers.
GN
Drugs rifampin
Foods beets chakandar

✅Yellow ; normal light or pale yellow but spectrum of yellow To or orange or amber
Due to urine pigment urochrome ... the color spectrum changes ... more yellow or amber means
Concentrate urine
Dehydration
Hypovolemia
Grades of dehydration ... more and more

Liver, obstruction jaundice ( clay stools and dark urine )

Sulfasalazine

Riboflavin and B complex. FLAVus ... yellow

and pyridium

✅Blue or green. Meds.
Like Indomethacin.
Food colores.
Infections pseudomonas

✅Dark or cola colored or dark brown
GN like PSGN

Obstruction jaundice

Meds. Antimalrial and flagyl

Foods

Excercise lead to rahbdo

✅white like pus or milk
UTI
Chyluria