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What Is Causing Black Urine?

Hi, Doctor,
I am a Certified Nursing Assistant who specializes in hospice patients. In May I will be starting an Accelerated BSN program to become a hospice nurse. I currently have a hospice pt whose urine is very dark in color -- almost black. I would like to know the process/es that are causing this. Is his body expelling chemicals into the urine that would not be there were he not in the dying process?
Kris Anne Hormann

Thu, 27 Feb 2014

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Keep me posted

Pediatrician, Dr. Irshad H Naqvi's Response

Hi Dear
Welcome to the HCM
Probably you have experiencing hematuria.(denatured blood in urine )
Please get your self evaluated for any bleeding disorder/urolithiasis etc by urine routine examination, ultrasound KUB region and all the test for the bleeding disorder.
Hope the query is answered.
Thanks

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What Is Causing Black Urine?

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