Urine Looks Like Potato Water

[barry1010]

My oldster is well in himself, no temperature or bizarre behaviour (signs of kidney infection in the elderly, we've been there before) but his urine is cloudy and 'thick'.

I've given him weak squash to drink (he won't drink plain water) and will get him to drink as much as possible but does anyone know what has caused this - and need I worry?

It doesn't smell any different.

[Redhelen72]

Is this of any help?

https://draxe.com/health/cloudy-urine/

 

[bednobs]

i would absolutely get a sample and speak to the surgery.  In oldsters,things can movee very quickly

[barry1010]

I have a sample, my wife will drop it in to the surgery this morning.

Thanks, both 

[Redhelen72]

Hope everything is OK

[barry1010]

Thanks, Helen.  A while back he turned in to a horrible foul-mouthed, crude, aggressive monster and it turned out to be a urinary tract infection.  He was back to his version of normal with treatment.

 

[Peter Pedant]

UTI - GP needs to see him in  personam if poss

[barry1010]

No infection detected, we are to keep him drinking the squash and drop off samples this evening and in the morning 

[bednobs]

in which case, could contamination have come from the container?

 

[barry1010]

No, it looks the same in the sample pot as in the loo

[barry1010]

All clear this morning - a sample will still go the GP for a quick dip.  

I thought it may have been something he ate - the way beetroot can affect your urine, but it must just be 'one of those things'.

So nothing to worry about, thanks for your suggestions

[Redhelen72]

Glad he is doing well Barry

[Peter Pedant]

You know there was a whole industry on this in the C18 ?

P~ss prophets. The other lot ( looked at poo) were in charge when the King went mad 1788. but their observations still allow the dx of porphyria to be made. ( colour of the urine interfered with THEIR prognostications).

( and then someone did a genetic analysis on the Prince who flew his aeroplane into a bill, and found the gene)

[juliecarlstan]

Take him to the doctor. If he is very dehydrated that can thicken all bodily fluids, and dehydration can weaken the bodies natural defenses to germs. Its likly the cloudy urine is due to a lot of bacteria, could be a hard to detect infection. And with a specimin (small amount of urine in sterile cup with lid) it'll be easy for a doctor to order labs, which will give you clear answers. Make them drink a bunch of water? see if the symptoms clear?