What do your urine color and sputum type and color say about your health?

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Urine Color, and your level of dehydration

Water is a very important substance to the human body. All body cells require it for normal functioning. It plays various roles in a human body, including temperature regulation, removal of waste products from the body, tissue moistener, aids digestion, prevents constipation, moisturises the skin, lubricate tissues, protects kidney. Many metabolic functions in your body are carried out with water.
A dehydrated body will experience problems in these aspects.
Compare your urine colour with this chart below to detect your level of (de)hydration.

Good. You're okay and well hydrated.

Okay. You may just have to drink little extra water.

Fair. However, you're near dehydration. Drink at least 60cl of water within the next one hour if you'll be staying indoors. If you're going out, or will be doing anything tidious, then take at least 100cl (1 litre) of water.

Bad. You're fairly dehydrated. Drink 60cl (a sachet) of water now, or at least 100cl (1 litre) if you're going out.

Critical. Drink 1 liter of water to get your body well hydrated again for normal functioning if it is darker than this or comes out as red or in other colours, then you should see a doctor or community pharmacist.

NB: Urine color can be affected by other things such as certain drugs, foods, vitamins and ingested dyes. Although, this is usually not harmful at all. If you have noticed any change in your urine colour and smell accompanied by discomfort, kindly consult a healthcare practioner.

Sputum

This is the subtance you cough up from your mouth. It is made up of saliva and respiratory discharges such as pus, mucus or phlegm.
The colour and thickness of sputum can be used for diagnostic purposes, especially by professioners.
The following are the types of sputum often released and their possible causes.
Please consult your healthcare provider for more info.

Blood-streaked sputum – may be a sign of inflammation in throat (larynx and/or trachea) or bronchi, lung cancer, other bleeding erosions, ulcers, or tumors of the lower airway.

Pink sputum – sputum evenly mixed with blood from alveoli and/or small peripheral bronchi.

Massive blood – is a sign in cavitary tuberculosis, tumor such as lung cancer, lung infarction or abscess and pulmonary embolism.

Green or greenish colored — indicative of longstanding respiratory infection such as pneumonia, ruptured lung abscess, chronic infectious bronchitis, and infected bronchiectasis or cystic fibrosis.

Rust colored – could be a sign of infection caused by pneumococcal bacteria (in pneumonia), pulmonary embolism, lung cancer or pulmonary tuberculosis.

Brownish —

chronic bronchitis (greenish/yellowish/brown);
chronic pneumonia (whitish-brown);
tuberculosis; lung cancer.

Yellow, yellowish purulent containing pus. suggests that treatment with antibiotics can reduce symptoms.

Whitish gray — could be a sign that you are dehydrated, or have a chronic allergic bronchitis.

A white, milky, or opaque (mucoid) — means that antibiotics are less likely to be effective in treatment because the likelihood is greater of a viral infection or allergy (even asthma...thick sputum) than of antibiotic-responsive micro-organisms.

Foamy white – May be earlier-phase pulmonary edema.

Frothy pink – may indicate more severe pulmonary edema.

Clear –
pulmonary embolism (clear to frothy);
COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (clear to gray);
viral respiratory infection (clear to whitish & sometimes a hint of yellow);
asthma (thick and white to yellowish).

Genital discharge

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