A 32-year-old member asked:
Why could urine turn green?
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Dr. James Fergusonanswered
Pediatrics 48 years experience
Meds/foods/metabolsm: Green urine can be traced to food dyes, indego blue, metheline blue( a med )biliverdin (a breakdown product of liver wastes).If urine with various metabolic wastes come in contact with other chemicals it can turn green. If you face this issue: try keeping an exposure diary listing everything you eat or drink +otc or prescribed meds or herbals & take it all in for reviw by your dr.
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Dr. Rajesh Boorguanswered
Nephrology and Dialysis 29 years experience
Food dye: Very commonly this is caused by ingestion of a blue dye. Methylene blue or urogesic, used for bladder irritation causes this. Simply, yellow urine plus blue dye = green color.
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