What causes yellow urine?

Nowadays, people are paying more and more attention to health. Everyone hopes that they will be healthy, but various diseases can catch us off guard. Many women find that they have yellow urine in their lives. Everyone is very worried about this situation. So what is the matter with yellow urine? What factors lead to the appearance of yellow urine? Let's take a look at the introduction in this article.

Many women are familiar with the condition of yellow urine, but many people do not pay enough attention to it. Some people think that yellow urine is just physiological and it can be cured by drinking more water. In fact, yellow urine may also be caused by some diseases. Yellow urine refers to the color of urine being yellow or yellowish brown. The causes of yellow urine include normal physiological factors. For example, many people's morning urine is yellower, or taking certain medications may cause yellow urine. Yellow urine may also be caused by pathological factors, such as liver and kidney diseases, reproductive and urinary system diseases, etc.

1. Yellow urine due to physiological factors

Yellow morning urine

If your first urine after getting up in the morning is yellow, don't worry. Because after a whole night of rest, the urine in the body will be concentrated, the waste content will be higher, and the color will be yellower. Especially when you drink less water, the color of your morning urine will be darker. This is normal and there is no need to worry.

Food causes

Eating vegetables and fruits with natural pigments, such as carrots, can also change the color of your urine. However, this phenomenon is only temporary. If you drink a few more cups of water, it will gradually return to normal.

2. Pathological yellow urine

Liver and kidney diseases

In clinical examinations, yellow urine is divided into two categories: one is bilirubinuria and the other is urobiligenuria.

Bilirubinuria refers to the condition in which bilirubin in the gallbladder enters the blood circulation. The cause is usually inflammation of the bile duct, which causes the bile duct to rupture, resulting in bile entering the blood.

Urobilinogenuria is caused by liver damage. Liver damage increases the intestinal absorption of urobilinogen, and when urobilinogen dissolves into urine, yellow urine appears. In addition, people with hemolytic anemia will have massive destruction of red blood cells, and urobilinogen will also be absorbed through the intestines, causing the liver to be unable to convert a large amount of urobilinogen into bilirubin, which will also cause urobilinogenuria.

Yellow urine after sex

Many women will have yellow urine after having sex, and the urine has an unpleasant odor. Sometimes it is caused by condoms, but most of the time this yellow urine is generally caused by reproductive system diseases, with inflammation being the most common.

3. Taking certain medications can also cause yellow urine

This type of drugs includes riboflavin, which can cause yellow urine, as well as furazolidone and mefenamic acid, which can also cause yellow urine. Other drugs that can cause yellow urine include rhubarb. The yellow urine will disappear after stopping the medication, so there is no need to worry about this type of yellow urine.

After reading the introduction in this article, everyone should have some understanding of the factors that cause yellow urine. In general, everyone must pay attention to yellow urine. If this situation persists for a long time, then everyone must go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time to avoid missing the best treatment time for the disease.