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peeing blood
my boyfriend says hes been peeing blood but it happens like once a month, theres obviously something wrong but he wont get it checked because his drug addict mom is telling him its nothing, he drank like a glass of red koolaide and his mom said thats why his pee was red? but he said it was blood and she told him to get over it and it was nothing but just because you drink koolaid obviously its not going to turn your pee red thats like saying a drank blue koolaid and my piss turned blue.. how do i convince him something is wrong hes 20 years old .. and wont listen to me he thinks its nothing but i dont want him to have a little problem and then lead to something bigger if left untreated like kidney problems or something what do i do?
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Actually, red kool-aid can turn your pee red. The other flavours not so much.
So can eating anything with red food colouring, beets, blueberries and boysenberries.
My thinking, and I will stress that I am NOT a doctor, is that if it was an on-going problem, it would happen more than once a month. If his kidneys were failing or if he had an infection, he would be fairly consistently peeing blood, like once or twice a day for a week.
A suggestion would be to have him drink a bunch of red kool-aid and then watch the colour of his urine. If it changes after that, then that's likely the culprit. If he cuts out the red kool-aid and doesn't eat any beets, and this is still happening, then he should definitely be checked out by a doctor. Try to avoid unnecessary expense, but watch his health.
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Wow... you think you're helping people on this website, and then they go and prove that you're wasting your time.
To respond to your "feedback", and I use that term loosely, seeing as it was more of an illiterate rant.
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"Causes of Red urine:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Red urine. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.
Blood in urine
Certain foods
Beets
Borscht (beet soup)
Certain medications
See also causes of blood in urine (hematuria), red urine, or darker urine
Glomerulonephritis
Urinary tract infection"
Red urine can be caused by ingesting certain foods. Red Kool-Aid is one of them. Blue Kool-Aid is not one of them. Your urine won't change colour from eating a red apple, but it could change colour by eating beets. See the difference? The red is a dye (either natural or synthetic) that is not processed by the body. Urine carries the remainder out of you, because you don't want it to accumulate. So your mom is wrong, so maybe she's the one who should "gesh go to school".
You indicated that he was a drinker of red Kool-Aid. I took this to mean that there may have been a connection there. Us Advicenators can only work with what we're given.
You didn't say it was happening several times a month, and occuring randomly. You said [sic] "hes been peeing blood but it happens like once a month". If you had included the vital information that it was dripping randomly and happening several times a month, or included any other symptoms (like pain, maybe?), then I would have given you a totally different answer... "GO TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!"
As for your request that I "gesh go to school", I'm a 3rd year engineering student. Is that good enough?
If you were that concerned, you'd be at the hospital with your guy right now instead of b*tching at the people on the internet whose help you enlisted.
It's people like you that make me consider withdrawing my assistance. There are people out there who legitimately need and want help and are grateful for the assistance they receive, and it's people like that who make me keep going.
Grow up, and learn how to be grateful.
Oh, and maybe you should take your own advice, and "go to school". You might learn how to punctuate a sentence properly.
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He has a urinary tract infection. He needs to go to a doctor, if untreated it will get to his kidneys. If he doesn't believe you then look it up with him on the Internet.
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