In a healthy person, urine can be straw to deep yellow in color. Often, pregnant women have a bright yellow or orange color of urine, which is due to the intake of vitamins on the eve of the test.
When drinking heavily, the urine dilutes and becomes colorless, and, conversely, when drinking a small amount of fluid or when it is lost (vomiting, diarrhea), the urine becomes more concentrated, dark yellow.
A sign of the disease is most often considered if the urine has a color:
• strong tea ("beer" color) - pathology of the liver and gallbladder, such as parenchymal (hepatic) jaundice or viral hepatitis;
• pink-red (the color of "meat slops") - inflammation of the kidneys, such as acute glomerulonephritis;
• greenish-yellow ("lemon" color) - obstructive jaundice (ie cholelithiasis), the presence or entry of pus into the urinary system;
• dark brown (dark brown) - hemolytic anemia;
• whitish - the presence of a large number of phosphates or lipids, such as renal lymphostasis, fatty degeneration of the kidneys;
• dairy - urinary tract infection, cystitis, pyelonephritis.