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What chemical can make your urine blue?

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ViRaLRuSh

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I was thinking back to my old high school days, taking chemistry. My teacher would always tell us this silly story about when he was in college he and some friends took something to make their urine turn blue. The story was hilarious, so we all would ask him how he did it, but he never told us how. Does anyone know how this can be done? The man doesn't lie, he was always a very serious person besides that.
 
Thanks to Google....


QUESTION: At a posh art show, color was the theme: All the canvasses were white, the gallery walls were white, white wine was served. So why was the exhibition titled "Blue"?

ANSWER: That's what the guests wondered until they got home and passed blue urine. Presumably the wine had been spiked.

Food coloring wouldn't have worked, because the wine would have appeared blue. A likely suspect, says University of Washington laboratory medicine specialist Wayne Chandler, is methylene blue, used as a drug to treat methemoglobinemia--a rare blood disorder that can turn a person's skin blue--and in the past as a urinary antiseptic. Methylene blue is relatively harmless and has been popular for years as a somewhat unwise party joke. A clear metachromatic dye, it turns blue in urine.

Various other drugs or food dyes may turn urine blue, orange or green. Food pigments in carrots can lend an orange-yellow coloration; beets, rhubarb or blackberries may impart a reddish or brownish hue (often mistaken for blood). Certain B vitamin supplements containing riboflavin are spilled off beyond what the body can use, turning urine bright yellow-orange, almost florescent--a spectacular pee!

 
ah, a logical answer from google... but amnesiac, everyone is entitled to a post and just b/c you have more than us noobs doesn't give you the freedom to diss us when we ask questions...
 
Cheapest place i've found it for too...

Be careful though... if you plan to take some of this stuff.. do it in very small doses.


Side effects

Symptoms of overdose
Anxiety; back pain; bluish fingernails, lips, or skin; chest pain; chills; confusion; difficulty in breathing; dizziness; headache; leg pain; nausea and vomiting; severe sweating; stomach pain; trembling; unusual tiredness or weakness

More common
Greenish blue to blue discoloration of urine and stools

Less common
Diarrhea; nausea and vomiting; painful urination or increased need to urinate (with tablet form)
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I remember my high school Chem teach syaing something about Phenol Thaylean (sp?) turning your pee magenta or fusha :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: amishhonda
ah, a logical answer from google... but amnesiac, everyone is entitled to a post and just b/c you have more than us noobs doesn't give you the freedom to diss us when we ask questions...
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Of course everyone is entitled to a post. Post all you want.

On the same token, I have the equal right to post in response to any thread someone may make.

And of the many posts here at ATOT, YAGTs and "I'm too dumb/lazy to Google" posts are definitely ones we need less of.
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
I remember my high school Chem teach syaing something about Phenol Thaylean (sp?) turning your pee magenta or fusha :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman
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uhhhh, phenolpthalein is the active ingredient in X-lax, and it is also used as a pH indicator, it is colorless in acid, and turns pink/purple in base

Never ingest any pure phenolpthalein!
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
I remember my high school Chem teach syaing something about Phenol Thaylean (sp?) turning your pee magenta or fusha :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman
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I've had many a shirts ruined from that goddamn phenolphalene.
 
What chemical can make your urine blue?
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I know this one!!

it is "UK blue Beast" (Milwaukie's Best tinted blue) yes the Beer back in '98 made me pee Big Blue they day after the NCAA finals

UK BIG BLUE beer is not widely availible... sorry🙁

 
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Originally posted by: amishhonda
ah, a logical answer from google... but amnesiac, everyone is entitled to a post and just b/c you have more than us noobs doesn't give you the freedom to diss us when we ask questions...
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Of course everyone is entitled to a post. Post all you want.

On the same token, I have the equal right to post in response to any thread someone may make.

And of the many posts here at ATOT, YAGTs and "I'm too dumb/lazy to Google" posts are definitely ones we need less of.
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less neff threads??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MooseKnuckle
Why does urine reek after eating asparagus?
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You must not know how to use google, either. 😛

Asparagus contains a sulfur compound called mercaptan. (It's also found in rotten eggs, onions, garlic, and in the secretions of skunks.) When your digestive tract breaks down this substance, by-products are released that cause the funny scent. The process is so quick that your urine can develop the distinctive smell within 15 to 30 minutes of eating asparagus.

But not everyone has this experience. Your genetic makeup may determine whether your urine has the odor -- or whether you can actually smell it. Only some people appear to have the gene for the enzyme that breaks down mercaptan into its more pungent parts. A study published in the May 1989 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that 46% of 115 people tested produced the odor in one group of British citizens, while 100% of 103 people produced it in a group of French citizens. The ability to smell the by-products may also be genetic. Another study published in the same journal found that 10% of a group of 300 Israeli Jews could not detect the odor. In other words, a person's urine could smell, but he or she might not know it. Judging from your question, you can do both. But that's nothing to worry about.
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Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: MooseKnuckle
Why does urine reek after eating asparagus?
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You must not know how to use google, either. 😛

Asparagus contains a sulfur compound called mercaptan. (It's also found in rotten eggs, onions, garlic, and in the secretions of skunks.) When your digestive tract breaks down this substance, by-products are released that cause the funny scent. The process is so quick that your urine can develop the distinctive smell within 15 to 30 minutes of eating asparagus.

But not everyone has this experience. Your genetic makeup may determine whether your urine has the odor -- or whether you can actually smell it. Only some people appear to have the gene for the enzyme that breaks down mercaptan into its more pungent parts. A study published in the May 1989 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that 46% of 115 people tested produced the odor in one group of British citizens, while 100% of 103 people produced it in a group of French citizens. The ability to smell the by-products may also be genetic. Another study published in the same journal found that 10% of a group of 300 Israeli Jews could not detect the odor. In other words, a person's urine could smell, but he or she might not know it. Judging from your question, you can do both. But that's nothing to worry about.
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Eli,
I knew you would, thanks. 🙂
 
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