| International Journal of Clinical Pediatrics, ISSN 1927-1255 print, 1927-1263 online, Open Access |
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Review
Volume 2, Number 2, December 2013, pages 51-60
Hematuria in Children
Table
| Adopted from Hui-Kim Yap, Perry Yew-Weng: Hematuria and proteinuria. In: Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology. Denis f Geary, Franz Schaefer, Eds. Mosby Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2008; pp. 180. | |
| Dark yellow or orange urine | Normal concentrated urine, drugs such as rifampicin |
| Dark brown or black urine | Bile pigments methemoglobinemia alanine, cascara, resorcinol alkaptonuria, homogentisic acid, melanin, thymol, tyrosinosis |
| Red or pink urine | Red blood cells (hematuria), free hemoglobin (hemoglobinuria), myoglobin (myoglobinuria), porphyrins urates in high concentration (may produce pinkish tinge), foods (e.g. beetroot, blackberries, red dyes), drugs (namely, benzene, chloroquine, desferoxamine, phenazopyridine, phenolphthalein) |