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What does brown tea or coffee colored urine mean?

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Could mean blood: It can mean old blood in the urinary tract. There are many many causes of this. You should have a urine analysis done on a fresh urine specimen and contact your doctor.

Dr Villaplana and another doctor agreed

Answered 8/24/2020

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