take vitamin pills and pee is yellow

[NiceCold]

i start to take b complex vitamin pills every lunch time and i notice when i pee..... it is always yellow. i tried to miss a pill for a day and pee... white-clear. so i am expecting what cause the yellow pee is the vitamin pills i take. but i dont get it! i thought vitamin is helathy?


i heard that yellow urine is not helathy and white-clear urine is healthy-normal.

i check internet and seems right. yellow is not healthy and white-clear is healthy.


i google and no answer. iw ant to know from real people and your thoughts. why is when i take vitamin pills my pee turns yellow? it supose to be white-clear if its helathy. when i dont take the pill my pee is white-clear. weird stuff. anyone have any idea?








edit: i googled what color pee is healthy and it has no answer to the stuff i want to know. now i google "vitamin make yellow pee" now i see several people experiecing same. http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061026221521AAa2UrH seems like many people say its normal for vitamin to make our pee yellow. but i still uncomfortable cause i heard yellow pee is not healthy.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

It's pretty common for vitamin pills to change color of pee.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Also, yellow urine isn't "unhealthy" but instead as it gets more "golden"/darker in color the less hydrated you are. Ideal hydration levels are more of a yellowish tint and pale/translucent yellow. Totally clear generally shows you are too hydrated.

 

[LTC8K6]

Very yellow urine = dehydrated iirc.

 

[Brigandier]

It's okay if it turns color, you really have to worry when it begins to taste different.

 

[BoomerD]

B complex always turn my piss electric yellow.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

I thought it was something like if your urine is yellow after taking vitamins that means your urinating all of the vitamin out or at least most of it. Decrease dosage?

 

[TheVrolok]

Most likely high amounts of riboflavin. Imparts a pretty hardcore yellow color to urine, but it's a B vitamin, so toxicity is not really an issue.

 

[OverVolt]

They give vitamin B complex vitamins in high doses because the vitamins are water soluble - your kidney simply eliminates the B vitamins it doesn't need.

Don't be worried about the color of your urine, they recommend clearer urine because they want you to be drinking fluids, however a B Vitamin complex will give you the urge to drink a glass of water in 2-3 hours after taking it anyway. There isn't really a color test for urine, it just tells you how dehydrated you are, or in your case just alot of solutes from taking a water soluble vitamin. When it comes to pee being unhealthy it is mostly stuff you can't see anyway, like glucose in your urine, or too much protein etc.

 

[NiceCold]

Most likely high amounts of riboflavin. Imparts a pretty hardcore yellow color to urine, but it's a B vitamin, so toxicity is not really an issue.

Nature Made B Complex with vitamin C

that is specific pill i take. it have C in it too. is C good? does C have anything to do with changing color of pee too?

 

[Soundmanred]

C isn't bad, I'd shoot for an A next time, especially if you are going to college.

 

[xanis]

It's normal. When I took a multi-vitamin my piss was actually kind of green... pretty weird to see.

 

[Bateluer]

Just means that you're peeing out most of the vitamin pill you just swallowed.

 

[NiceCold]

C isn't bad, I'd shoot for an A next time, especially if you are going to college.

lol yeah

Just means that you're peeing out most of the vitamin pill you just swallowed.

is that good or bad?

 

[OverVolt]

Nature Made B Complex with vitamin C

that is specific pill i take. it have C in it too. is C good? does C have anything to do with changing color of pee too?

Haha, oh make it stop lalalalalalalalala.

Anyway B Complex w/ C is fairly standard, probably 500mg of Vitamin C. So long as it's the only vitamin C your really taking your fine. I take Vit B w/ C occasionally too but just on days I know I didn't really get my B vitamins or after a weekend of drinking.

 

[lxskllr]

Saffronpigmentosis... Sorry man :^(

 

[Bateluer]

is that good or bad?

Neither really, you've just ingested more vitamins that your body needed/could handle, so it expelled them. Waste of money more than anything else.

 

[NiceCold]

a bit off topic..... is it ok to have coffee while taking vitamin pills? reason i only take the pill at lunch time is cause i drink coffee every morning. is it ok to drink coffee and having vitamin pills? if anyone have answer feel free to answer. good day.

 

[Bateluer]

a bit off topic..... is it ok to have coffee while taking vitamin pills? reason i only take the pill at lunch time is cause i drink coffee every morning. is it ok to drink coffee and having vitamin pills? if anyone have answer feel free to answer. good day.

Coffee is a diuretic, it'll dehydrate you, though only marginally. Could also be contributing the darker urine color.

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

Take 2 or more pills a day and see what your "skin" tone is.

 

[Jeff7]

And it was thus that the acronym "TPAD" was retired, with a newcomer taking its place:

TPAPY

Take pills and pee yellow.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

taking a chlorophyll pill will turn your crap green

tons of vitamin D3 will make your ... very white

 

[Q]

As others have reported already, yellow urine means you need more water, for the most part.

 

[gaidensensei]

your body is absorbing what it needs from the vitamin and the excess is excreted unused stuff. Taking B vitamins may also suggest that you need to drink more water when you take it, because of increased dehydration as a side effect.

The true answers as to how it occurs is due to your kidney/urea metabolism mechanics and the process of the vitamin being broken down. B12 skeletal structure below for instance.

 

[Jeff7]

As others have reported already, yellow urine means you need more water, for the most part.

Is there actually any genuine evidence to support that, or is it one of those myths that just got going, like the whole "drink 8,000 glasses of water a day or else you'll die of radioactive kidney boulders" thing?

(~64oz of water a day - yes, probably a good idea. The skewed part: A substantial percentage of a lot of foods is water, which helps make up that 64oz figure.)


If I drank enough water to keep my urine running clear, I'd probably get fired for making too many bathroom visits.