purple urine

Coloured urine can be a dilemma to diagnose. Beeturia, red urine after eating beetroot is well known and the dark urine of dehydration also. Purple urine has been reported after patient catheterisation. It is commoner in women, alkaline urine , constipation, plastic urinary catheterisation and certain bacteria e.g. E Coli , P mirabilis.This phenomenon can…

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