Do you carefully observe your urine every time you go to the toilet?

1. Is your urine healthy?

We go to the toilet every day, but do you take a close look at your urine every time? The color of your urine can tell whether you are healthy. You should pay attention to your urine color, urine volume, and urination every day.

Although the colors of urine are amazing, only a few colors, such as red or dark brown, are warnings that something is wrong with your health. Next, I will tell you what different urine colors mean!

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red

Blood is the most common cause of red urine and is a clear health warning sign. Bladder cancer, infection, and kidney stones can all cause blood to appear in your urine, all of which warrant a visit to your doctor.

orange color

Dark urine can also indicate a health problem. Liver cancer can cause dark brown urine, which contains excess bilirubin, a brown pigment produced by the liver.

Taking antibiotics can also change the color of urine to orange.

yellow

Normally, urine is light yellow, and may be darker or lighter depending on the amount of water you drink, the amount of activity you do, and the amount of sweat you sweat. However, if urine has an abnormal color, it may be a precursor to disease.

Additionally, some patients receiving IV fluids become so hydrated that they produce nearly colorless urine.

green

Green urine is usually due to dilution of blue urine, and sometimes, a urinary tract infection may appear green.

black

Black urine is a relatively rare condition, often caused by hemolysis, malignant malaria or liver disease. A small number of patients may have black urine after taking phenylhydrazine, cresol, levodopa and other drugs, but it usually disappears after stopping the drug.

In addition, black urine may also be excreted when suffering from phenol poisoning, alkaptonuria or black tumors.

2. Your diet determines the health of your urine

Given that self-reported records of individual eating habits are often unreliable and tend to underreport the amount of unhealthy foods or overstate the intake of fruits and vegetables, it is very difficult to understand the quality of diet. In a recent study, a scientific team from Imperial College London, Newcastle University and Aberystwyth University in the UK invented a simple urine test method to help people determine whether their diet is healthy. Researchers Gary Frost and others from Imperial College London in the UK selected a total of 19 volunteers and divided them into a very healthy diet group, a healthy diet group, an unhealthy diet group and a very unhealthy diet group according to their diet. After 3 days of corresponding dietary intervention, their urine was collected to analyze the metabolites produced during digestion. The results showed that this urine test method is very sensitive and can measure the biomarkers produced by the decomposition of different foods in the body in just 5 minutes, thereby determining whether people have eaten specific foods (such as red meat, fish, vegetables or fruits) and how much they have eaten. It is expected to monitor people in weight loss programs and help people conduct diet and health-related research more accurately.

The researchers pointed out that the main problem with current nutrition and diet-related research is that it is difficult to accurately assess diet by relying solely on diet diaries. However, studies have suggested that, to some extent, the false reporting rate of people's daily diet can reach about 60%. This new urine test method can independently and reliably reflect the quality of an individual's diet, providing a new method for objectively assessing people's overall diet quality, and is expected to become an individualized dietary monitoring tool to help people maintain a healthy lifestyle. Currently, researchers are verifying and improving the above method in a larger real-world population. In the future, if it can help us understand diet more accurately, it is expected to better explore evidence-based interventions to improve individual health and reduce obesity.

3. Standards for healthy urine

Image source: Pixabay What is considered healthy peeing? In addition to urine color and smell, there are several other criteria to consider:

01Urination frequency

If you urinate about 8 times a day and the total volume does not exceed 3 liters, it is considered normal. If you don’t drink a lot of water but urinate more than 8 times, it is considered "frequent urination."

Most cases of frequent urination have nothing to do with the kidneys. If you urinate frequently but the amount of urine is small, it may be caused by problems with the urethra or bladder. If you urinate frequently and the amount of urine is large, it may be caused by internal metabolic diseases such as diabetes or polyuria.

02Urination frequency

It usually takes 30-45 minutes for water to metabolize normally in the body, so a healthy urination frequency is about 30-45 minutes after drinking water. However, urination frequency higher or lower than this time value does not mean that there is a problem with the kidneys. The retention time of water in the body is also affected by the saltiness of the diet and the amount of food consumed.

If you experience symptoms such as incomplete urination, weak urine flow, difficulty urinating, or increased frequency of nocturia, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to identify the cause.

03Urine status

Healthy urine is light yellow, transparent and clear. If there is a lot of foam in the urine or the color is abnormal, you should pay attention to health problems and go to the hospital for treatment and relevant examinations in time.

4. You should do this in your daily life

The public is reminded to drink more water in daily life. The daily water intake should reach more than 2000 ml. Boiled water is the best choice. Drinking water should be done in moderation. Do not drink it like crazy, as it will have the opposite effect. Maintain a reasonable diet structure, eat less fried, high-salt and high-sugar foods, and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and high-quality protein. Maintain moderate exercise and persist in exercise to maintain the normal functioning of the internal organs and enhance resistance.

Finally, you should strengthen your physical exercise. You can choose to walk, jog, swim and other sports to enhance your body's immunity. At the same time, you should also pay attention to the cleanliness of your private parts, change your underwear frequently, and choose loose and breathable underwear.

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This article is compiled from Live Science, Health Times, 39 Health

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