Urine for laboratory tests during pregnancy is systematically. What caused increased attention to the properties of urine when carrying a child, is it possible to draw conclusions about the course of pregnancy and the color of urine from the intensity of staining, transparency?
Urine color during pregnancy
The urinary system at this time is overloaded due to the increased volume of the filtered liquid, and also because of physical squeezing of the growing uterus of internal organs. This violates the activity of the kidneys, the liver, causes squeezing of the bile ducts, the gallbladder, which is manifested by darkening of urine.
The color of urine during pregnancy can vary, quickly returning to normal. Such phenomena should not frighten women, they are the result of natural changes occurring in the body.
The intensity of urine staining directly depends on the volume of liquid drunk the day before. What color should it be and is it normal if it changes? Thus, the morning urine is somewhat brighter, since it is more concentrated due to a prolonged absence of urination during a night's sleep.
However, a change in the shade of urine can be caused by a developing disease, which creates a threat of pregnancy.
Norm
The color of urine depends on the concentration of pigments of urochromes, urobilin, uroerythrin, urates. The intensity of the color depends on the amount of liquid drunk - the daily volume of the liquid.
The transparency of urine depends on the presence of mucus in it, the blood cells - red blood cells, leukocytes.
In pregnancy, urine changes color in a wide range: from straw-yellow to yellow. It should not be cloudy, contain inclusions in the form of flakes, sediment.
A change in the color of urine on different terms of pregnancy can have its own reasons.
- In the first trimester, in early terms, the characteristics of urine are affected by a phenomenon such as toxicosis that causes vomiting, which leads to dehydration of the body. The lack of fluid in the body leads to the concentration of salts, causing a darkening.
- In the last weeks of pregnancy, due to the dark color of urine, a change in its transparency, we can conclude that there is a progressive gestosis, and by the presence of protein - about inflammation.
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Causes of color change
Urine color serves as a diagnostic sign, and also characterizes the kind of food eaten the day before. So, the eaten beet will make the urine red, the rhubarb will give a greenish tinge, and the carrots will color the urine in orange.
If the color change lasts 1-2 days, then this phenomenon should not be given much importance. Talk about the diagnostic value of a change in the color of urine is possible if the unusual color does not disappear for several days.
Lightens urine in diabetes, including severe decolorization in gestational diabetes, developing in the second half of pregnancy.
The result of consuming a large volume of liquid is a strong dilution and discoloration of urine.
More dangerous is another condition indicated by the discoloration of urine - renal failure. Especially high risk of this disease is observed in women suffering from kidney disease.
Dark
The brownish, greenish color of the urine is given by the presence of bile pigments. This may indicate a liver disease or problems with the gallbladder.
Gallstone disease is accompanied by staining of urine in a lemon color. A greenish-yellow hue may indicate a purulent process in the urinary system.
The greenish or even bluish color of urine indicates purulent processes in the intestine. A similar color change may also indicate gestational pyelonephritis, which develops in pregnant women.
Darkening of urine with edema is characteristic of gestosis - a state of "late toxicosis" in pregnancy, when the functionality of the kidneys decreases:
- Brown urine in combination with frequent urge to urinate, painful urination observed in sexually transmitted diseases.
- Dark coloration with a brown tinge occurs with hemolytic anemia.
- Melanosarcoma, alkaponuria accompanied by the coloration of urine in black.
- Blackening of urine is caused by the appearance in the urine of decomposition products of muscle protein( myoglobinuria).
On the other hand, the dark color of urine can have a perfectly safe explanation:
- eaten on the eve in large quantities of beef, beans, strong tea;
- reception of antibiotics of cephalosporins, sulfonamides, metronidazole.
Pink
In pink, urine stains the impurity of blood in inflammatory diseases of the urinary system. As the concentration of erythrocytes in urine increases, the intensity of staining increases, acquiring a red tint.
The pink shade of urine sometimes serves as a manifestation of endometriosis, a disease that rarely progresses in pregnancy, but in some conditions of danger to the fetus.
Urine of pink color can take place at the use of medicines, for example, aspirin, and if you take amidopyrine, the urine will turn red.
Orange( bright yellow)
The yellow tint increases with an increase in the content of uric acid. This phenomenon is observed during dehydration. In the morning hours, this shade may indicate a change in the hormonal background, an increase in the concentration of antidiuretic hormone.
In addition, drugs Warfarin, Phenylphthalein, Rifampicin, Phenazopyridine, drugs containing nitrofuran, Uropyrin, Sulfasalazine affect the color of urine, giving it a bright orange hue.
Red
The red shade of urine acquires when the concentration of urate pigments increases:
- A crimson-bright color with a strong odor occurs in urine at the stage of severe liver destruction.
- Accepts the color of meat slops of urine when erythrocytes appear in the urine( hematuria).
- Staining in red causes cystitis, urolithiasis, lead anemia, acute glomerulonephritis.
- Urine of red color in women indicates the probability of a kidney tumor, bleeding in the excretory system associated with kidney trauma, rupture of the bladder.
Muddy
The change in the transparency of urine during pregnancy occurs when bacteria enter the genitourinary system. It becomes turbid, it becomes whitish urine with leukocytosis, which accompanies inflammation caused by urethritis, cystitis.
White opaque urine is typical for purulent inflammatory diseases, indicates the presence of leukocytes, fat in the blood. When the urine acquires the color of the milk, it indicates the appearance of an admixture of lymphocytes in it.
What to do if the color of urine has changed
If the color of urine has changed, you do not need to panic in any case, you need:
- to make some corrections to your usual diet, to reduce the amount of salt in dishes;
- to abandon bad habits - completely eliminate alcohol, smoking;
- increase the amount of fluid consumed;
- adhere to a healthy lifestyle - more often go for a walk, do exercises;
- must visit a gynecologist and fully implement its recommendations.
In the early stages of pregnancy, urates, oxalates can be found in the urine of a woman, staining the urine in a pinkish, orange color. Experiencing on this occasion is especially not worth it, but to see the doctor and find out the cause of the discolouration, nevertheless, should be to exclude any possible health risks.