Cherry Red or Raspberry urine
When the urine is red and free of haem pigments (e.g. erythroctyes, haemoglobin or myoglobin), then the urine may be discoloured and described as 'raspberry', or 'cherry-red'
Tag Unusual Urine
Urine Colour
Normally, urine is some shade of yellow with acid urine usually a darker colour than alkaline urine. Pathologically, it may be any colour.
Traffic light urine
Unusual Urine 007 from @KateTietjens. 15 min post methylene blue = traffic light urine!
A Problem with Plumbing
The plumbing problem is this: a man has a urinary catheter in situ, it won't come out. What are you going to do about it?
Tyrian rage
Purple Urine: Usually alkaline urine with degradation of indoxyl sulfate (indican), dietary tryptophan metabolite, into indigo (blue) and indirubin (red)
Mahogany Myoglobinuria
A 72 year old female is admitted following an emergency abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Explain the biochemical results and brown urine
Verdant waste
You manage a young male with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. You are called to review because the patient has started to pass green urine
How Green is my urine
Casual perusal of the output from a patients indwelling catheter revelaed green urine. What are the commonest causes of this unusual urine?
Where are the lemons?
You are wandering past the bedside of a 42 year old male with a cerebral abscess…and you notice he has orange urine. Unusual Urine.