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Renal physiology
12 January 2004 17:07From Eckert Animal Physiology:
"The smell and colour of urine are determined by the diet. For example, consumption of methylene blue will give urine, which typically is yellow, a distinctive blue colour, and consumption of asparagus will completely change the more usual, slightly aromatic odour of urine."
My comments on this extract:
1. Who tried drinking methylene blue (the stuff you put in fish tanks to cure white spot, as I recall) in order to find out what that does to urine?
2. How many first-year Biology students actually need /telling/ that urine is yellow?
3. Urine - 'aromatic'? And who said scientists have no sense of humour?
There, those are my schoolboy remarks for the month. How banal I am.
"The smell and colour of urine are determined by the diet. For example, consumption of methylene blue will give urine, which typically is yellow, a distinctive blue colour, and consumption of asparagus will completely change the more usual, slightly aromatic odour of urine."
My comments on this extract:
1. Who tried drinking methylene blue (the stuff you put in fish tanks to cure white spot, as I recall) in order to find out what that does to urine?
2. How many first-year Biology students actually need /telling/ that urine is yellow?
3. Urine - 'aromatic'? And who said scientists have no sense of humour?
There, those are my schoolboy remarks for the month. How banal I am.
