Top 12 Signs: What Your URINE Says About Your HEALTH: Doctor Explains

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Mine was Red. I went to the ER right away and found out that I had Stage 3 Kidney Cancer. I had my left kidney removed and so far, the cancer hasn't returned. I need to get checked at least once a year. Stage 3 Kidney Cancer has a 53% chance to live 5 years. I'm at 1 and 6 months since surgery so we'll see how it goes the next few years. So, if you have blood in your urine you can't waste any time to get it checked and if Cancer Surgery. Another few weeks or months could change it from an early stage 3 to a late stage 3 or stage 4.

My husband drinks beet juice and was super freaked out when it turned his pee a reddish tint the first time. You should do research on cases of colored sweat. My doctor diagnosed me with having Chromhidrosis. My sweat is blue. It’s pretty interesting and also annoying since it turns my toilet seat and white clothes blue over time.

I'm surprised you didn't cover what is probably most common, cloudy urine. As you pointed out normal healthy pee is clear and light yellow. I learned the hard way that cloudy urine is an indication of a urinary tract infection. My elderly mother is prone to UTIs caused by the E.coli bacteria. Since I have to help her on and off the toilet, I would notice most of her infections by the appearance of her pee in the toilet bowel. If it was cloudy she had an infection. I would then place an urine collection hat on the toilet to collect a sample to take to her doctor's office. The problem I have had with my mother when she has an infection, is that after taking a big pee in the morning her bladder would kind of lock up for rest of the day until bedtime. I finally wised up and placed the hat on the toilet the first thing in the morning. The other problem my mother has is that she is allergic to penicillin, so her doctor would prescribe a cephalosporin antibiotic (Cefprozil, Cefdinir, Cefuroxime) and Ciprofloxacin. One time somehow I did not catch her infection in time and her urine had a milky like appearance. I took the sample to her doctor's office and later that day her doctored called me to say my mother should go to the hospital, so my mother took an ambulance ride to the ER. Her UTI had become septic, the E.coli bacteria was in her bloodstream and her kidneys and lungs were infected. Her blood pressure was unstable and at one time had dropped to 60/30. The ER doctors were expecting her to pass, or at the very least her kidneys would be so damaged she would have to go on dialysis. The ER doctors kept pumping Cefprozil into her. By the next morning her vital signs had stabilized and over the next few days her kidneys fully recovered their function, and she went home. A 95 year old women is not expected to survive this severe an infection. About 7 months after my mother's hospitalization she had an infection that was resistant to first Cefprozil and then Cefuroxime. Her doctor then prescribed Ciprofloxacin which cured the infection. My mother now has UTIs that are resistant to cephalosporin antibiotics. Her doctor now is prescribing Ciprofloxacin for her UTIs, and she is on a prophylaxis antibiotic called Nitrofurantoin Macro and thankfully it has significantly reduced the incidence of UTIs.

Omg, thank you soooo much for saying that not everyone needs to drink 8 cups of water a day! I did that for about 6months, forcing myself to drink that much even though I wasn’t thirsty. I was peeing every 30min 😔😳 and my urine was clear. After those 6months I got extreme panic attacks and anxiety that lasted about a year!! I started adding electrolytes to my water and drinking only when thirsty. After about a year, slowly the anxiety subsided and the multiple a day panic attacks stopped. I think by forcing myself to drink that much water each day flushed out lots of electrolytes from my body and that’s why I had such terrible symptoms

Thank you for this lesson on urine. You have a wonderful manner of making medical issues easily understood by us non medical viewers. I had no idea just how many varying colours of urine there are, nor the issues that cause these colour changes. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video.

What great timing. We're currently learning about the urinary system in my Biology class. I'll be sending this to my prof! Thanks Siobhan!

Bright pink urine can also be caused by (lots of) beetroot. So, before panicking, try to remember your last meals.

Good stuff for all of us to know. Even just the basics. But I'm also extremely grateful that there are specialists with even more knowledge that can help us.

Yay, Siobhan, I'm so glad you’ve posted again! 😊 I really missed your videos, they're such a great motivation for me as an aspiring med student!

Thank you. It was because of this video I realized I had problems. So it was at morning and After it came reddish brown cola coloured I thought maybe my periods was irregular as it had been only 2 days after my cycle finished. But later when I went again I saw it was then Red. After I began to have severe stomache and vomits. So I went to the doctor and had a MT scan and found out I had kidney stones but it was gone. And thanks to the scan, I found I had a small cyst in my ovaries and I also had umbilical hernia. So, Always be sure to see a doctor before it worsens

You posted this right as I'm learning how to read and understand Urine Dip Tests and how to do them. You're so awesome, Siobhan! They are apart of my midtem which I'm also in the middle of doing.

Thank you for starting out with the warning about finding blood in the urine. I am a 75 yr. old woman diagnosed 2 1/2 years ago with bladder cancer. (I was never a smoker, but did have chemo for breast cancer 18 years before; one of the chemo drugs I was given was Cyclophosphamide, my only identified risk factor). From my first symptom (hematuria) until diagnosis took 7 months. Everyone kept testing for a UTI (always negative!). My PCP referred me to a urologist 4 months after that first episode of hematuria, and the urologist's office dragged things out another 3 months before I had a cystoscopy. I finally ended up at the closest NCI hospital (1 1/2 hours away) and had a radical cystectomy (removal of the bladder) in Feb. '22. I'm now a bag lady, and can pee standing up! Best of all, using a night bag, I can sleep through the night without having to get up and pee every few hours!

Dr. Siobhan does a fantastic job explaining the various aspects and indicators. Learning more about this often-overlooked aspect of our health is both fascinating and valuable. Definitely worth a watch for anyone interested in understanding more about their well-being.

Thank you for covering this topic in full detail. I really learned a lot when thought I already knew the whole notion of this matter.

Very informative, thank you, love how excited you are to talk about the subject & the clear messages you get across.

Now you see THIS is how you make an interesting YouTube video! ... The enthusiasm and obvious deep knowledge of this subject is what holds the viewers attention! ... A very interesting video, and not too long and boring like some videos are! ... Excellent!

You are an exceptional teacher. Intelligent, articulate and the enthusiasm is just brilliant. Thank you.

RN for the last 30 years. I pee in a clear glass every time I need to go when at home for just the reasons you explained.

I really love her smile and the way she explains everything Thanks shivon