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Dim or bright With urine you can check the state of health
Is it light or dark, clear or cloudy? Does he smell strong? Our urine can say a lot about health. For blood in the urine you have to go to the urologist in a timely manner. But other changes in the liquid excretions should necessarily be clarified by a doctor.
For some changes necessarily to the doctor
Everybody has had to give a urine sample to the doctor. Finally, urinalysis is an indispensable method in medical diagnostics to detect or monitor the course of illnesses. On the basis of the nature of the urine can be seen even for laymen possible health disorders. Because smell, color and amount of urine often give first indications that something is wrong. Some changes should be clarified to a doctor.
Our urine can say a lot about your health. In particular, discoloration can be evidence of various diseases. (Image: Björn Wylezich / fotolia.com) Urine usually smells inconspicuous
Normally, the urine smells inconspicuous when urinating. Malodorous urine may indicate various diseases, such as urinary tract infections or diabetes.
When it "smells" fishy, bacteria are often the trigger, leading to vaginal inflammation, especially in women.
Often, however, it smells only temporarily strictly, for example, after eating certain foods such as asparagus.
Hydration plays a big role
The color is often much more meaningful. Normally, urine is clear and slightly yellowish or amber, with the color being produced by urinary metabolites (urochromes).
Accordingly, the emergence of the Urochrome decides on the expression of yellowing, which can vary from an intense yellow (hypotonic urine) to colorless or transparent very different.
Very important here is also the hydration: Who drinks a lot, has a lighter urine, who takes little liquid, rather a darker.
At least one and a half liters per day excrete
Health experts recommend drinking at least as much per day that 1.5 liters of urine are excreted through the urinary tract. In this way, the kidneys and the draining urinary tract are well rinsed. Ideal is as light as possible urine.
However, clearing very little and very dark urine may indicate a kidney or liver disorder.
Other shades such as neon yellow, pink or greenish may be caused, among other things, by an increased intake of vitamin B, after the consumption of beetroot and blueberries or by certain bacteria. Most such discolorations are harmless.
Blood in the urine
However, if the urine is cloudy or particles are floating in it, you should see a doctor. Cloudy and flaky urine often indicates a urinary tract infection.
Reddish urinary exudates suggest blood in the urine and thus possibly for kidney or ureteral stones or other, more serious diseases of the urinary tract.
Summer heat can promote the formation of kidney stones. Picture: sun_fleckl - fotolia "Cystitis is the leading cause of blood in the urine," Dr. Reinhold Schaefer, urologist and managing director of the Uro-GmbH Nordrhein.
But: "If blood enters the urine without signs of bladder or kidney inflammation, the presence of bladder cancer should be ruled out," the expert said.
Orange to brown cloudiness may indicate, among other things, a gallbladder or liver disease.
Foaming urine or fat eyes floating on the urine can also be a sign of problems with the kidneys.
Medical examination instead of self-diagnosis
Although it makes sense to observe his excretions, self-diagnoses are "always to be seen with reservations", Dr. Shepherd.
Finally, "reddish discoloration and other changes may occur even after eating certain foods or taking some medications."
According to experts, urine self-tests from the pharmacy usually also bring little, since they often caused unnecessary worries due to a high error rate and incorrect application.
In order to gain security and to get to the bottom of the causes, it is therefore advisable to go to the urologist.
This also applies to pain, fever, nausea and malaise in connection with abnormalities in the urine.
Even without complaints, some physicians recommend taking a urine test once a year to detect possible abnormalities such as high blood sugar levels at an early stage. (Ad)