What Does It Mean When Your Pee Is Green?

• Normal Urine Color
  • What is the normal color of urine?
• Red or Pink Urine
  • What causes red or pink urine?
• Orange Urine
  • What causes orange urine?
• Brown Urine
  • What causes dark brown urine?

In most cases, blue or green color urine is the result of food coloring or taking certain medications. However, in some cases, green pee may indicate a bacterial infection.

Green or blue pee is typically the result of consuming food that contains dyes or taking medications, such as the following:

• Kidney stone
• Bladder stone
• Enlarged prostate
• Tumors or growths in the urinary tract
• Physical exertion, such as long-distance running

Foods that cause red or pink urine

• Beet
• Rhubarb
• Blackberries

Medications that cause red or pink urine

• Rifampicin (used for treating tuberculosis)
• Pyridium (used to relieve irritation of the urinary tract)
• Senna-containing laxatives

Orange urine can be due to:

• Medical conditions
  • Problem with your liver or bile duct
  • Dehydration
• Medications
  • Sulfasalazine (anti-inflammatory drug most commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis)
  • Pyridium
  • Certain laxatives
  • Certain chemotherapy medications

Brown urine can result from:

• Eating large amounts of foods, such as
  • Fava beans
  • Rhubarb
  • Aloe
• Medications
  • Chloroquine (antimalarial drug)
  • Primaquine (antimalarial drug)
  • Metronidazole (an antibiotic used most commonly to treat bacterial infections, such as bacterial vaginosis and infected wounds)
  • Nitrofurantoin (an antibiotic used for treating urinary tract infections)
  • Cascara (laxative)
  • Senna (laxative)
• Medical conditions, such as
  • Kidney disorders
  • Liver problems
  • Urinary tract infections
• Muscle injury due to extreme exercise