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Topics: Health, NHS, Social Media, Instagram
Britt Jones
If you’ve ever seen bubbles in your urine, you might be startled at first.
There are so many different ways that your body can tell you that there is something afoot with your health, but it’s not so easy to recognise whether it’s a passing illness or if it’s something to take more seriously.
Regular seeing foamy urine could signify several different health ailments, all of which need to be treated by a doctor.
Taking to Instagram, Dr Shirley Koeh shared a video explaining why you might have bubbles in your pee.
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She said: “If you started seeing bubbles in your urine, we need to know whether is this the first episode and single episode that you are experiencing.”
The medic shared the most common ailments that a person may be going through which would cause foamy urine.
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Dr Koeh explained: “If it’s just a single episode, then what you should do is try to hydrate yourself as much as possible. Do not hold your urine and try to pass urine as frequent as possible and this bubble should go away.”
She then shared what you should do if it doesn’t disappear, and the bubbles reoccur.
Dr Koeh said: “If you have done the above and yet the bubbles don’t go away, then we need to consider the following.”
The healthcare professional went on to say that reoccurring bubbles in urine could be the ‘presence of protein’ in your urine.
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Now, this could be for a number of reasons.
The doc explained that there are two tests that can be conducted to get down to the bottom of the cause.
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She said the first test is ‘the most accurate way to find out’ is to send ‘the urine to the lab to find out is there any microalbumin, which is the small protein that will exist in your urine’.
The second test is ‘just by a simple urine dipstick test’.
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This option can be done at home, but it’s just not as accurate as the first method for understanding what is causing the bubbles in your urine.
If their of those tests come back with protein in your urine, this could point to having hypertension, diabetes or ‘kidney disease secondary to drug intake’.
If you’re worried about what this could mean for you, let’s break down the illnesses.
Hypertension, as per the NHS, is high blood pressure, which ‘can lead to serious problems like heart attacks or strokes. But lifestyle changes and blood pressure medicines can help you stay healthy’.
Diabetes ‘is a condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high’ and it can cause a range of health complications if it is not managed via a healthy diet which is low on carbohydrates and high in protein.
If the diet isn’t managing your sugars, then you will have to take metformin medication, or insulin, or even both at the same time.
Kidney disease secondary to drug intake can be caused by ‘chronic drug and alcohol misuse’ which can lead to severe kidney damage or even failure.
So, if you regularly notice bubbles in your pee, it’s best to call your GP surgery and book an appointment.