#Urine

Think of your bladder as a balloon that fills up with urine.At a point when it's "full", your brain gets the signal to empty it, if you override that signal,

Colleen Huber, NMD

ColleenHuberNMD

PUZZLE:A patient came in with urinary frequency & urgency.Here is the urinalysis.What do you suspect as the underlying cause? (I will show the answer after a dozen or so replies.)

Sayed Tabatabai, MD

The Urine Rainbow, a thread.. starting with purple!This happens rarely with certain kinds of bladder infections in chronically catheterized patients. (Image from NEJM).I’ve also attached an article that describes a

Dangers of holding urine too long?(A THREAD) As liquid waste build up in your body you get the urge to urinate. It’s not harmful to hold it for a few

The Medical SHO

Purple Urine Bag Syndrome (PUBS): a thread. This week, I was called to see a patient on the Stroke ward as the nurses had reported purple urine in her catheter

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Many PM MDs are NOT requiring weekly/monthly urine tests. MDs are using telemedicine.We’re gonna see a HUGE increase in ODs/deaths from LEGAL #opioids.Why?As adults & #chronicpain pts, we’re apparently unable

I really hate how the medical industry pits chronic pain patients against each other while the strongest profit. My doctor always praises me as one of "the good ones" because

Str8 Kristen says

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So this one time at a new job, new boss, new coworker.... I had to work out of my car.. so you know. You pee in a cup. Well... I

Sarah cheeto mosquito frito

Okay so I have a wild story for y'all (thread) 48 hours ago (from this thread being posted) I started feeling some unusual pain in my lower pelvis but dismissed

laurawildhealth

1/5 #WBTC1 #Conserve1 Flying-foxes can serve as #bioindicators for assessing metal #toxicants due to their large #homerangeMeasuring #pollutants in biological samples from #bats can be used to monitor metals but

There's certainly a lot to digest from yesterday's Q2 Alberta Opioid Response Surveillance Report. https://www.alberta.ca/opioid-reports.aspxThe numbers, to put it plainly, are devastating. Long and educational thread to follow on o

Antivaxxers like to talk about "doing the research," but seem woefully inept at interpreting evidence. They depend entirely on what the author claims to have done. But, that's not evidence:

Bon je vais essayer de répondre intelligemment là où l’intelligence n’est pasMini thread, défilez Elle parle d’un composant qui est le carbamide urée, qui est un déchet rejeté par l’urine

why jojotwt should stop drinkin pee: a thread guys research suggests that drinking urine can introduce bacteria, toxins, and other harmful substances into your bloodstream. It can even place

1/ #UncleBob shares #5goodminutes worth of lab nerdy thoughts from today's sadly interesting patient. These are thoughts that I often share on rounds. I feel that we should maximize what

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Thread on things I have found when I started staining urine .Urine analysis is an important part of routine diagnosis, it reveals a lot about general well-being. Staining samples is