Patient's question:
A 5-year-old child sometimes urinates with sediment after a night, and the sediment is orange in color. What could be the reason?Doctor's answer:
This is mostly a physiological phenomenon, not a sign of illness. We know that human urine contains many types of salt substances, which dissolve in the urine within the body, making the urine clear and transparent just after it is excreted. However, due to a drop in temperature, air oxidation, or changes in pH, the salts in the urine may precipitate and suspend, causing the urine to become cloudy, or they may settle down, forming deposits in the urine basin. These deposits are the result of salt accumulation in the urine.Advice: In very rare cases, cloudy urine may be a pathological condition, typically characterized by daily cloudy urine and a significant amount of sediment in the urine basin. For example, metabolic disorders in the body can lead to excessive salt in the urine and an increased risk of urinary tract stones. Patients with gout may have small, fish-scale-like sand particles that precipitate at the bottom of the urine basin. If blood tests reveal elevated uric acid levels, it can be diagnosed as gout.