Urine colors
Red-pink: Vit B12, beetroot. rhubarb pie, or a dozen blackberries.
The popular UTI (urinary tract infection) treatment called “phenazopyridine,” will tint your urine orange.
he prescription blood thinner “Coumadin” (warfarin) can do it but usually it’s because you just drank a lot of carrot juice or took some vitamin C.
If you see reddish brown urine, that could be rhabdomyolysis which is associated with some popular medications. If you’re on a cholesterol drug, and see tinged urine, see a doctor immediately.
Yellow is normal, but bright neon yellow is not. Still, it is harmless. Supplements that contain riboflavin will make you pee in neon yellow.
Amber urine could be a sign of dehydration.
Methocarbamol, nitrofurantoin and laxatives (cascara or senna) can temporary do it too.
Did you eat a bag of black licorice? It will make you pee green.
Honestly, vivid green urine is highly unusual. It happens sometimes on the day (or day after) you’ve been sedated for surgery or a procedure. It’s from the propofol (aka the Michael Jackson drug). This is a popular short-acting sedative that anesthesiologists frequently use, and it can tinge pee green. Cimetidine (Tagamet) sold over-the-counter for acid reflux can do it sometimes too.
This one would alarm me personanlly, even though a number of medications produce blue urine including Elavil (amitriptyline) and Indocin (indomethacin).
Purple urine is almost always associated with people who have catheters and then get a UTI. If you visit a loved one in the nursing home and see this, all they need to do to cure it is a treatment of antibiotics and a catheter change.
Two of the most frequent causes is kidney stones or high calcium excretion (hypercalcuria) or high phosphorus in the urine (phosphaturia). You might also have a very bad kidney or bladder infection.
Black is sometimes associated with melanoma. It can occur red blood cells being destroyed at a dangerous rapid pace and is considered an emergency.