Urine physical processes (color, spec grav, volume)

Question 1

What is the normal volume range of urine in a 24-hour period?

Answer 1

600 – 2000mL

Question 2

What is the average volume of urine?

Answer 2

1500mL

Question 3

What factors are directly related to the amount of urine?

Answer 3

1) Fluid intake
2) Temperature and climate
3) Amount of perspiration that occurs.

Question 4

What in foods or drugs causes blue green urines?

Answer 4

Methylene blue (Used as dye or stain in diagnostics procedure)

Question 5

What in foods or drugs causes dark orange urine?

Answer 5

pyridium (used for UTI infection)

Question 6

What in foods or drugs causes milky white urine?

Answer 6

Chyle

Question 7

What in foods or drugs causes olive green to brown black urine?

Answer 7

Phenols (poisonous compound used for antimicrobial agent)

Question 8

What in foods or drugs causes yellow to brown (turning greenish with foam when shaken) urine?

Answer 8

Presence of bile

Question 9

What in foods or drugs causes red or red-brown (smokey appearance)?

Answer 9

Presence of blood

Question 10

What causes Turbid Alkaline urine?

Answer 10

1) Amorphous phosphate

2) Amorphous carbonate

Question 11

What causes turbid acidic?

Answer 11

1) Amorphous urates

Question 12

What does a pinkish turbidity indicate?

Answer 12

presence of urates.

Question 13

What cause the odor in urine?

Answer 13

• volatile acids

Question 14

Normal color for urine?

Answer 14

Yellow to dark amber

Question 15

What is the term used for color of urine?

Answer 15

Urochrome

Question 16

What smell develops from urine that has been standing for a long time?

Answer 16

ammonia odor due to breakdown of urea by bacteria.

Question 17

What causes Sweet or fruity smell?

Answer 17

Ketones

Question 18

What causes pungent smell?

Answer 18

ammonia produced by bacteria

Question 19

What causes maple syrup smell?

Answer 19

“Maple syrup urine disease” a congenital metabolic disorder

Question 20

What causes musty or mousy smell?

Answer 20

Infant with phenylketonuria

Question 21

What causes sweaty feet smell?

Answer 21

Isovaleric acidemia, presence of butyric or hexanoic acid in urine

Question 22

What’s the spec grav for random urine?

Answer 22

1.003-1.035

Question 23

What’s the spec grav for 24 hour urine?

Answer 23

1.015-1.025