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My child has pink colored urine, what will be the cause?
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There may be various colours of urine seen. Red coloured urine is suggestive of blood in the urine. Ingestion of coloured sweets, beetroot, drugs (Rifampicin causes orange coloured urine; Multivitamins may cause yellowish colour of urine), heamoglobin or myoglobin can cause red urine. Ingestion of phenolphthalein (a laxative) leads to pink urine if the urine is acidic. People with a particular metabolic defect produce red urine whenever they eat beets. Blackberries can turn acidic urine red, while rhubarb, anthraquinone laxatives, and some diagnostic dyes will redden urine only when it is alkaline. The best way to determine the cause of the pink urine is to send the urine sample to a lab for correct diagnosis.
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