Urinalysis

Injury	Disease	Nutrition	Poison

Symptoms	Surgery	Test	Special Topic

Female urinary tract

Male urinary tract

Overview

Risks

Results

Urinalysis

Alternative Names:

Urine appearance and color; Routine urine test

What the risks are:

There are no risks.

Special considerations:

If a home test is used, the person reading the results must not have impaired color vision, as the results are interpreted using a color chart.

Some drugs change the color of urine, but this does not indicate disease. Some of these are chloroquine, iron supplements, levodopa, nitrofurantoin, phenazopyridine, phenothiazines, phenytoin, riboflavin, and triamterene.

Review Date: 5/17/2005
Reviewed By: Vishal Datta, M.D., Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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