The presence of oily urine can tell us a lot about what you’ve been eating, how much you’ve been drinking, and also if a particular infection or disease is present in the body.
General Causes of Oily Urine
A normal color of urine will range between yellow, very dark yellow, and white due to a pigment in the blood called urochrome, which determines the dilution or concentration of the urine.
Brighter orange can even indicate dehydration, while alcohol use, certain foods in the diet, infections, and blood in the urine can all make your pee appear to be a different color.
Excess vitamin consumption, chyle, starvation, dehydration, pregnancy, and ketones in the urine can all contribute to oily urine.
1. Excess Vitamin Consumption
The presence of vitamins and other supplements can lead to oily urine, especially when there is excessive vitamin consumption. Too much vitamin D in particular can lead to oily urine.
It is also possible that vitamins are not being absorbed properly by the body. As a result, dietary changes may be necessary to help the body absorb and digest food more easily.
In general, the diet should be full of nutrient-rich, fibrous vegetables and other whole foods while absent of processed food with artificial vitamins and colors, as well as preservatives and other chemicals.
2. Chyle
It is normal to have a small amount of oily urine due to urine sitting in the bladder for long periods of time. This oily urine is from chyle—a substance made from protein and fats.
But, if the amount of chyle is excessive and has a milky, sticky, or frothy appearance, it is time to consult with your doctor.
High pressure in lymphatic vessels may cause chyle to get into the urinary tract where it becomes waste. This is considered common in pregnancy, as well as in those with roundworm infections, cancer, and cirrhosis.
3. Starvation
Starvation occurs when a person cuts calories and consumes little to no food.
Other times, the body starves even when the person eats their normal diet. This type of starvation often happens with digestive issues, including the food not being properly absorbed or processed by the body.
Starvation may also be the result of a condition called hypermetabolism—higher than normal metabolism.
Under the circumstances of digestive issues and hypermetabolism, the body must turn to itself for nutrition, and it will feed on stored fats. When the fat runs out, the body then feeds on stored protein in the waist, hips, abdomen, and buttocks.
Some of the wastes produced when the proteins are burned get released into the urinary tract, and this can lead to oily urine. This is what is called ketosis—a condition where the body can no longer use carbohydrates for energy.
Oily urine ketosis is a life-threatening problem that also produces symptoms like gout, fatigue, nausea, weakness, increased sweating, and excessive weight loss.
4. Dehydration
Amber, dark yellow, and oily urine may be a sign of dehydration.
People taking part in vigorous exercise or physical activity, the elderly, and those with gastrointestinal issues are susceptible to dehydration. Excessive perspiration from a high fever or hot weather is another cause of dehydration.
Other dehydration symptoms include dizziness, fatigue, thirst, and a dry mouth.
If you notice oily urine, regular water consumption may be all that is needed to help relieve any problems with dehydration.
5. Ketones in Urine
As mentioned, oily urine can also result when ketones are found in the urine during ketosis.
Besides not eating on a regular basis or starving the body, other circumstances leading to a state of ketosis include having uncontrolled diabetes, an insulin overdose or blood sugar issues, and having changed your ordinary diet for weight loss, like a low-carb and high-protein diet.
Ketones in urine may also be triggered by excessive exercise, high-stress levels, alcoholism, or adopting a fasting diet.
In ketosis, the body is unable to break down carbohydrates for energy and must use fats instead. As a result of this metabolic process, ketones are left in the urine, and this is where oily urine may be present.
6. Pregnancy
Pregnancy is another potential cause of oily urine. The nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy can trigger abnormal ketone levels in urine.
Ketones in urine during pregnancy can also be a sign of gestational diabetes—a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy and disappears once the baby is born.
When food is consumed, the body converts it into blood sugar that is then used by insulin for energy. However, during pregnancy, placental hormones can set insulin resistance in motion even though enough blood sugar is available in the body.
Basically, pregnancy women are unable to use the blood sugar due to insulin resistance. As a result, the body uses the fat for energy, and this causes ketones in the urine and oily urine.
Pregnant women with oily urine will also experience underlying metabolic disorders, poor eating habits, and dehydration.
Diseases Associated with Oily Urine
When the urine is normal, it doesn’t have a strong smell. However, a strong smell from cloudy, oily urine may indicate kidney stones or a kidney infection.
Conversely, a sweet smell in the urine can be a symptom of diabetes.
Eating certain foods can also cause the urine to smell, and some of these include cabbage, broccoli, asparagus, garlic, red meat, and excess alcohol.
Orange urine may also be triggered by the consumption of too many red or orange-colored foods, like berries or beets.
There are also certain diseases and health conditions associated with oily urine. As we noted, in general, a healthy person will visit the bathroom six to eight times daily, but this all depends on how much fluid you drink.
If you feel the need to urinate without drinking extra fluids, you may have a urinary tract infection, overactive bladder, diabetes, interstitial cystitis, an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia), or a neurological condition like a stroke or Parkinson’s disease.
Again, normal urine color will be yellow, very dark yellow, and white. Most people do not know what their urine looks like.
Top Homeopathic Medicines
Homeopathic medicines work wonderfully on urinary tract infections, whether acute or chronic. Naturally and safe, by strengthening the immune system.
Homeopathic medicines that are highly reliable for treating urinary tract infection are Cantharis.
Vesicaria Communis
Clinical: Albuminuria. Cystitis. Dropsy. Gleet. Gonorrhea. Gravel. Hematuria. Nephralgia. Prostatitis.
A smarting, burning sensation in urethra and bladder. There may be frequent desire to urinate. Urine in some cases is only voided drop by drop. Often in these cases there is strangury associated with the condition.
In irritable condition of the bladder. Useful in acute or chronic cystitis. In nephralgia it has been used with success, relieving the pain produced by the passage of calculus.
Berberis Vulgaris
Violent stitching pains in the bladder, extending from the kidneys into the urethra, with urging to urinate. Frequently recurring, crampy, contractive pain, or aching pain, in the bladder, when the bladder is full or empty. Incisive pains in the urethra, even when not urinating. Smarting pain in the urethra, with sensation of excoriation, even during the emission of semen in coition.
Motion excites and aggravates the pains in the urethra. Burning pains in the urethra when urinating and afterwards, Stitches and burning in the urethra. Shooting pains in the urethra, extending to the bladder. Aching pains in the region of the bladder, even when it is empty, and after urinating.
Contractive, drawing, acute, incisive, and cramp-like pains in the bladder. Shooting, violent pains in the loins, extending to the bladder. Sensation of burning in the bladder. Pressure while urinating; Urgent inclination to urinate especially in the morning after rising.
Increased secretion of urine, which is as clear as water. Urine pale yellowish, with slimy, gelatinous, mealy sediment, white, greyish white, or reddish. Urine thick, yellowish, like whey, or clay-colored water.
Urine of a deep yellow, with abundant sediment. Urine dark yellow, red, becoming turbid, copious; mucous sediment, or transparent, jelly-like reddish, bran-like sediment (which is easily crushed and dissolved between the fingers).
Greenish urine, depositing mucus. Urine reddish, as if inflamed, with abundant sediment. Urine reddish, sanguineous, with slimy, mealy, and abundant sediment, of a bright red color. The emission of urine is often accompanied by pains in the thighs and in the loins.
Cantharis
Retention of urine, with cramp-like pains in the bladder. Urgent and ineffectual efforts to make water, with painful emission, drop by drop. Difficult emission of urine, in a weak and scattered stream. Increased secretion of urine. Urine, pale yellow, or of a deep red color. Flow of sanguineous mucus from the bladder. Emission of blood, drop by drop.
Purulent urine. Burning smarting while urinating, Incisive pains in the front part of the urethra, during the emission of urine, and afterwards. Sharp, tearing, and incisive pains, successive Pullings and pulsations in the urinary organs. Burning, stinging and tearing in the kidneys. Pressing pain in the kidneys, extending to the bladder; along the ureters; relieved by pressing upon the glans.
Inflammation and ulceration of the kidneys, of the bladder, and of the urethra. Exceedingly painful sensibility of the region of the bladder on its being touched.
Clematis
Purulent urine. Urine turbid, milky, dark, with flakes of mucus and frothy. Secretion diminished; the last drops cause violent burning. Secretion slow and in a small stream. During the emission of urine, pulling in the spermatic cord. Burning sensation and smarting in the urethra, on commencing to urinate, stitches in the urethra, stitches from the abdomen into the chest.
Contraction of the urethra, with the urine stopping suddenly, or only flowing drop by drop; jerk-like tearing in fore part of urethra in the intervals.
The first symptom that calls for the use of Clematis is a feeble stream of urine with slow passage of urine. An extreme constricted sensation is felt in the urethra while passing urine.
The second complaint that can be relieved with Clematis is the difficulty faced by the patient in clearing the full bladder in one go. The urine cannot be passed out once. The flow of urine starts then stops and starts again. This cycle continues several times. The patient always feels as if some urine is still left behind in the bladder, urine is passed drop by drop, dribbling urine, intermittent urine flow and feeble urine steam.
Clematis helps in establishing the proper flow of urine in a stream. It is also helpful for all those patients of Urethral Stricture who have a history of gonorrhea for a long duration.
Apis Mellifica
Burning soreness when urinating. Strangury, pain in region of kidneys; soreness on pressure or when stooping. Frequent desire, with passage of only a few drops. Urine scanty and high-colored; with thirstlessness. Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances. Urine suppressed. Too profuse discharge of urine.
Frequent and profuse urination. Albuminuria of scarlatina. Burning and stinging in the urethra or burning and smarting in the urethra, as if it were scalded. Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating. Urine often bloody, milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; sediment reddish-brown, like coffee grounds.
Chimaphila Umbellata
Acute prostatitis with dysuria and retention, sensation in perineum as if sitting on a ball. Constant pain in region of kidneys; urine scanty, dark, fetid, thick, with copious sediment. Strangury: constant desire to urinate.
Cutting, scalding pain, divided stream; stricture. Urethritis with purulent or profuse mucous discharge. Great quantities of thick, ropy, bloody mucus in urine. Greenish-black urine. Urine scanty; frequently voided, pressing pain before, burning prickling, scalding and smarting during and after, and vesical tenesmus feels better when sitting worse when walking.
Albuminuria; hematuria, from long-lasting gonorrhea; clots of coagulated blood pass with urine. Renal dropsy. Urethral stricture patients who have to apply a lot of strain to pass urine. In spite of efforts, the urine passed is very less in quantity.
One characteristic feature unique for the use of Chimaphila Umbellate is a specific position in which the patient is able to empty the bladder: The position is standing with feet set wide apart and body stooped forward. So, it’s only by standing with feet wide apart and inclining the body in a forward position that a person is able to pass urine.
Conium Maculatum
Urine stops suddenly and does not begin go flow for some moments, intermittent urine flow. Pressure on
the bladder, as if the urine were going to issue forthwith violence (with stitches); worse when walking, better when sitting.
At night emission of urine, frequent, and sometimes involuntary. Flow of urine, attended by violent pain. Urine thick, white and turbid.
Urine red. Retention of urine. Difficult emission of urine, which flows only drop by drop. Nocturnal urination, Wetting the bed.
Diabetes, accompanied by great pain. Frequent inclination to emit urine, which is clear and aqueous. Viscid mucus, mixed with the urine, which cannot be passed without great pain. Discharge of pus from the urethra. Emission of blood, sometimes with difficulty of respiration.
The urine stops suddenly and does not begin to flow again for some moments. Incisive pains in the urethra during the emission of urine. Burning sensation and shootings in the urethra especially after the emission of urine.
Camphor
Retention of urine. Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream, as if the urethra were contracted. Urine of a yellowish green, turbid, and of a moldy smell.
Hematuria. Burning pain during the emission of urine. Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.
Terebinthina
Pressure in the kidneys when sitting, going off during motion. Sensation of heaviness and pain in region of kidneys. Violent burning drawing pain in region of kidneys.
Nephritis that follows an irritation of the skin. R. T. C.
Frequent desire to urinate. Transient movement in region of bladder during a stool as if bladder were suddenly distended and bent forward. Spasms from any attempt to urinate. Suppressed secretion of urine. Strangury, followed by soreness.
Diminished secretion of urine. Secretion of urine considerably augmented. Urine smelling strongly of violets; deposit of mucus, or thick, muddy deposit. Thick, slimy, yellowish white sediment in urine.
Hematuria, blood with very little urine and constant painful dysuria (produced in a child from poisoning. R. T. C.). Burning sensation in urethra, felt also when urinating. Urethritis, with painful erections. Stricture of urethra (Burnett, after Rademacher). Urine scanty and bloody. Burning sensation, incisive pains, and spasmodic tenesmus of bladder.
Sarsaparilla
Severe pain after urination. Can pass urine only when standing, it only dribbles down when sitting, genitals; rectum; skin and bones; right lower extremity; right lower side; inner semi lateral head.
In the urinary sphere there are symptoms which are very severe and also peculiar: There is severe pain at end of micturition, just as the urine ceases to flow; inability to urinate freely except in the standing position, when sitting it only dribbles; excessive pain in urethra which may run back into abdomen; passage of gravel which looks like grey sand.
Many cases of renal colic and dysuria in infants with passage of sand have been cured with Sars. Gonorrhea and the effect of suppressed gonorrhea have also been cured with it; herpes preputialis; spermatorrhea, with swollen cords.,
Arnica Montana
Arnica can help all those cases of Urethral Stricture that are a result of an injury. Injuries by blunt objects, a blow or a fall, sore and bruised pain in urethra while urinating or otherwise, Tenesmus. Spasmodic urine retention with pressure in the bladder. Ineffectual attempts to urinate.
Involuntary emission of urine, bed wetting, and in the day, when running. Frequent micturition of pale urine, urine of a brownish red, with sediment, of a brick color. Bloody urination
Cannabis Ind
Burning or scalding before, during and after urination. Urging and straining but cannot pass a drop, A white glairy mucus may be squeezed from the urethra. Burning and scalding, or stinging pain in the urethra before, during, and after urination. Urging to urinate but cannot pass a drop. Profuse, colorless urine. Has to wait some time before the urine flows. Has to force out the last few drops with the hand. The urine dribbles out after the stream ceases.
Hepar Sulphuricum
Urination impeded. Obliged to wait before the urine is passed and then it flows slowly, feels as if some urine always remains behind in bladder., Urine slow and turbid, with whitish sediment. The urine is passed slowly, with difficulty; drops out perpendicularly.
Abundant secretion of pale urine, with pressure on the bladder. Acrid, corrosive (corroding the prepuce), or pale and watery, or deep-red, and hot urine. Nocturnal emission of urine. bed wetting.
Blood after urination. Burning in the urethra during micturition. Stitches in the urethra. Redness and inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. Discharge of mucus from the urethra.
Magnesium Muriaticum
Magnesium Mur is the ideal choice when the patient has to really strain to empty the bladder. The urine is passed out with much difficulty after putting in a lot of pressure.
Natrum Muriaticum
Cannot pass urine in the presence or other persons, cannot pass it in a public place, frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, sometimes every hour, with copious emission. Involuntary emission of urine, sometimes on coughing, walking, laughing, or sneezing.
Nocturnal emission of urine. Clear urine, with red sediment, resembling brick-dust. Discharge of mucus from urethra during and after urination, causing itching and biting, mucus from urethra sometimes is yellowish, as in gonorrhea. After micturition spasmodic contraction in abdomen; burning, drawing, and cutting in urethra. During micturition stitches in bladder, smarting, burning in urethra; smarting and soreness in vulva.
Thiosinaminum
Thiosinaminum belongs to the same chemical group as Urea. The colorless bitter crystals are soluble in water, alcohol, and ether. Thios. has been used externally and internally in cases of lupus, chronic glandular tumors, and for dissolving scar tissue; and internally for resolving tumors of the uterine appendages.
Thiosinaminum is known for its ability to dissolve scars formed anywhere in the body. Thiosinaminum can work wonders in Urethral Stricture cases where the cicatricial tissue is formed in urethra due to any cause. The resolving power of this natural remedy in scar cases cannot be matched by any other medicine. The scar will get soft followed by complete disappearance with the use of Thiosinaminum.
Thuja Occidentalis
Urethra swollen inflamed. Urinary stream split and small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after (Sars). Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and urgent but cannot be controlled. Paralysis sphincter vesicae.
Silisia
Urinary tenesmus. Continued want to urinate, with scanty emission (also at night). Strangury. Frequent (involuntary) emission of urine, also at night (with distress from irritable sphincter). Wetting the bed (at night). Reddish sand, or yellow, gritty sediment in the urine. Stricture of urethra.
Belladonna
Frequent desire to urinate, retention of urine. Difficult discharge of urine (and then discharge of a few drops of bloody urine only). Continual dribbling of urine. When trying to urinate, faeces escape.
Urine copious, pale, and watery, sometimes with profuse perspiration, thirst, increased appetite, diarrhea, and obscuration of sight. In continence and involuntary emission of urine, even in the night and during sleep.
Paralysis of the neck of the bladder. Strictures of the urethra. Urine turbid, of a yellow color, or clear, the color of gold or citron; or scanty and of a brownish red color, or the color of blood, or a bright red color. Red, or whitish and thick sediment in the urine. Sensation of motion in the bladder, as of a worm. Nocturnal pressure in the bladder. Shooting, burning pains in the renal region.
Hydrangea Arborescens
Burning in urethra and frequent desire. Urine hard to start. Heavy deposit of mucus. Sharp pain in loins, especially left. Great thirst, with abdominal symptoms and enlarged prostate (Ferr pic; Sabal). Gravelly deposits. Spasmodic stricture. Profuse deposit of white amorphous salts.
Lycopodium
Lycopodium – hematuria with renal calculus. Urination relives the pain for a while. The urine contains red sand, urine scanty, Micturition (passes with a burning sensation), Nocturnal urination (need to urinate frequently at night).
Cantharis
Hematuria accompanied by a burning sensation during urination, Cutting burning in the urethra, bloody urine. The burning is present before, during and even after passing urine. Urine passed drop by drop with blood, and there is a constant desire to pass urine. Strangury and bladder tenesmus.
Nitric Acid
Nitric Acid – a powerful medicine for bloody urine when the urine is offensive in nature (strong and highly offensive). Albuminuria. Urine – dark, bloody, scanty and foul. Urine may feel cold while passing. Some patients, chilliness in the spine appears along with bloody dirty urine.
Uva Ursi
Uva Ursi is the best when the urine contains blood cells along with large quantity of sticky mucus. Pain in the bladder and urethra while passing urine. Pains are tearing and spasmodic. frequent urge to pass urine. Uva Ursi works well when kidney stone pain accompanies mucus and blood in urine.
Terebinthina
Terebinthina is an effective treatment for blood in urine where the urine has coffee ground sediments. The urine appears dark or black, mixed with blood. Inflamed kidneys that follow an acute disease. Burning, cutting pain in the urethra with strangury and tenesmus. When albuminuria accompanies hematuria.
Serum Engvelia or Ell Serum
Heart and kidney diseases. In kidney diseases the attack is characterized by oliguria, anuria and albuminuria. Kidney failure. Acute nephritis. Hypertension and oliguria without edema. Cardiac uremia. Heart diseases in cases of failure of compensation and impending systole. Very efficacious in functional heart diseases. Mitral insufficiency. Asystole with or without edema, dyspnea, and difficult urinary secretion.
Pareira Brava and Equisetum
Pareira Brava and Equisetum are the Homeopathic medicines having same action on UTI with a constant urge to pass urine. The indicating symptom for prescribing Pareira Brava is a constant urge for urination, marked straining to urinate, and pain in bladder and urethra extending down the thighs. Urine is also passed with much difficulty. In the worst cases, urine is passed only by going on a hand and knees position.
Equisetum is of great help when there is a frequent and intolerable urge to urinate. Dull pain in the bladder is constantly present, and a person feels a sharp, cutting, burning sensation in the urethra when urinating.
Eryngium aquaticum
A remedy for urinary disorders. Strangury, etc, with nervous erethism. Thick, yellow mucous discharges. Influenza. Uridrosis, sweat of urine like odor in evening.
Tenesmus of bladder and urethra. Difficult and frequent micturition. Pain behind pubes. Spasmodic stricture. Renal colic. Congestion of kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs. Irritable bladder from enlarged prostate gland, or from pressure of uterus.
Discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Seminal emissions without erections, with lassitude.
Colibacillinum
Homeopathic medicine Colibacillinum is the top remedy for UTI from E. Coli infection. This natural medicine is helpful for acute UTI from E. coli infection as well chronic tendency of a recurrent UTI from E. coli infection. The main symptoms for Colibacillinum use are pain and burning while urination, the frequent urge to urinate, and unsatisfactory urination with the need to urinate again and again even after urination. (Advise higher dilutions only- Dr Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHS.)
Uva Ursi
Homeopathic medicine Uva Ursi is a remedy that is very beneficial for UTI when the urine contains pus and blood. Urine is slimy with thick, ropy mucus and may also be highly offensive. The other guiding features indicative of prescribing Uva Ursi are the constant urge to pass urine, difficulty in passing urine, straining to pass urine, and a cutting/burning pain in the urethra.
Mercuris Corr.
Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.
Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assume phagedaenic appearance. Gonorrhea; urethra orifice red, swollen; glans sore and hot. Discharge greenish, thick.
Zingiber Officinale
Frequent desire tu urinate. Stinging, burning in orifice. Yellow discharge from urethra. Urine thick, turbid, of strong odor, suppressed. Complete suppression after typhoid. After urinating, continues to ooze in drops.
Itching of prepuce. Sexual desire excited; painful erections. Emissions.
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