What Your Pee Says About Your Health
Want To Keep Closer Tabs On What’s Going On Inside Your Body?
Let’s face it, most of us don’t give much thought to our pee before we flush it down. But if you take a peek at the bowl after going number 1, the basic details of your urine – the color, smell and how often you go – can reveal quite a bit about what’s going on inside of your body. For example, your urine can tell you whether or not you’re dehydrated, fighting off an infection, or even suffering from a more serious medical condition, so it’s worth keeping tabs on.
What Color Is Your Pee?
Your urine is the liquid waste produced by your kidneys as they filter toxins and other waste products from your blood, and is made up primarily of water, salt and chemicals called urea and uric acid. Ideally, if you’re healthy and these are all present in normal amounts, the color should be a pale straw-hued yellow. That tint comes from a pigment called urochrome produced by your body. The infographic below, from the Cleveland Clinic, lists other colors that might show up and what they indicate about your health.
What’s That Smell?
Urine doesn’t usually have a strong smell, but certain foods (especially asparagus) or supplements (especially B6) can change its odor. A strong smell of ammonia usually means you’re dehydrated. UTIs, diabetes, bladder infections and other metabolic diseases can also change the smell of your urine.
How Often Should You Be Going?
Most normal, healthy individuals will empty their bladder up to eight times per day, and seniors and pregnant women will usually have to go more often. If you notice a sudden increase in the number of times you’re running to the bathroom though, it could be a sign of a health issue like diabetes, an enlarged prostate, vaginitis, a UTI or interstitial cystitis of the bladder.
When It’s Time To Get Checked Out
If you see a sudden change in the color, smell or frequency of your urine that you can’t link to medication or your diet, especially if it lasts more than a day and/or comes with a fever, vomiting, back pain or discharge, it’s time to schedule a visit to your primary care doctor to see what’s going on.
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I always wondered if I was drinking enough water. The color chart is very helpful.
I really did not know that smell of urine can be related to diseases! Really something important that we should be noticing regularly. Thanks for sharing the valuable information.
If the color is transparent are there any dangers associated with drinking too much water?
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Our urine is a great clinical indicator. It tells a lot of things about your health. But I have never ever heard about Blue or Green urine. This the first time. Thank you for sharing these informations.
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Wow. I never knew that our urine can tell these stuff about our body. Blue or green urine? That’s something new. Good for you to add in the Purple one. 😀
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I wish I had read this article earlier. Recently, I suffered from jaundice. If I knew of the color chart and was vigilant, I would have gone to that doctor much earlier than I have . Thank you for the information
It is always good to keep tabs on the color of the urine. A whole lot of diseases and infections such as jaudice, fever, thyhoid, etc can be dignosed from the appearance of the urine.
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It depends sometimes, when you have fever the urine color different and i think urine or pee is an important factor that describes your health
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In the morning it’s always a little bit yellow in color, But all it’s normal. Is it wrong or it’s okay?
This color chart is very helpful – thank you! I’ve always wondered what the color might say about my health.
The morning time is always a bit more yellow. Lets say you drank a whole bottle of water at once, your pee would be clear like water. Depends your intake really. Also having a water filter helped a lot as well, better clearer water.
I hope I never see my pee purple or green. I only have light yellow pee i drink lots of water.
I didn’t think about this ever.
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In simple we always says that never let your pee colour turn to yellow,Yellow pee means shortage of Water in body.So drink enough water everyday.
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The problem I have is that my pee is always clear though once I take my multivitamin it goes green/yellowish so I keep drinking water until it’s clear again, it’s an endless cycle.
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