What does your urine say about you?

The major function of the urinary system is to remove waste products from our bodies and help regulate the volume and composition of blood by the production and excretion of urine.
Urine analysis provides a summary of a patient’s health. A doctor must correlate the urine test results with the patient’s symptoms and medical findings to carry out diagnoses.

The urinary system consists of two kidneys, two ureters, one bladder, and one urethra. Changes in the volume, colour, turbidity, smell, density and other physical characteristics of urine are measured during urine analysis. However, physical characteristics of normal urine include observations and measurements of colour, turbidity, odour, specific gravity, pH and volume.

Average urine colour differs, depending on how much water one drinks. Fluids such as water dilute yellow pigments contained in urine. Which means that the more you drink water, the purer your urine will become, and when you take less of water, the colour of your urine becomes concentrated.

Features of a normal urine.
The colour of a normal urine is usually light yellow the less the intake of water to the system, the more the colour of the urine becomes more concentrated. However, the yellow colour of urine is due to the presence of a yellow pigment.
Deviations from normal colour can be caused by dehydration or bacterial infection
There is really nothing like abnormal urine as all urine samples produced with unusual colour, odour, turbidity, pH etc. are usually as a result of changes in the body system.

At Afriglobal Medicare limited, we recommend patients with symptoms related to body fluid, to take Urine test whenever they discover unusual changes in their urine, for accurate diagnosis. Urine should be collected in a clean container, stored in a cool place, and tested as soon as possible.

Book an appointment with our Pathologist today. visit Afriglobal Medicare at 8 Mobolaji Bank-Anthony Way Ikeja, Lagos-Nigeria, or call 01-6290998

thank God. mine is pale straw

Thanks for this information... The first 4 colours are the only colours i see when i urinate so am normal

Emescot:
Thanks for this information... The first 4 colours are the only colours i see when i urinate so am normal

Yes you are normal. Please always try to take two cups of water every morning

phemsie:
thank God. mine is pale straw

Yes, though the more you take two cups of water first thing in the morning, the better you will feel