Indian man’s urine turns purple in a bizarre form of UTI Indian man’s urine turns purple Purple urinary bag syndrome (PUBS). Purple is the least urine color you could have thought about and it happened for a 70 years old Indian man.
The patient, from India, was 'alarmed' by the bizarre color change in his urine and alerted doctors immediately.

Doctors were left almost dumb folded , before diagnosing the unnamed man with purple urinary bag syndrome.
The man was treated at King George’s Medical University in Lucknow, around 330 miles (531km) east of New Delhi.

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He had been fitted with a urinary catheter - a flexible tube that is used to empty the bladder and collect urine in a drainage bag
The man had been using the catheter in hospital for six months, ahead of planned surgery to cut away part of his enlarged prostate.

He called for doctors when he noticed his purple urine. Doctors wrote in the BMJ Case Reports : 'He was alarmed by this discolouration.'

PURPLE URINARY BAG SYNDROME

Bacteria responsible for the UTI breakdown metabolites of tryptophan - an amino acid found in food.
This produces indole, which becomes indoxl sulfate, which then oxidises into blue-coloured indigo and the reddish indirubin.
Dr Pandey and his colleagues wrote in the journal: 'The combination of indigo and indirubin gives a purple hue to the urine collection bag.'

However, the discolouration is completely benign, and often the underlying UTI is considered more concerning to medics.
Women face a higher risk of developing PUBS because they have a shorter urethra, which leaves them more vulnerable to catching UTIs.

Constipation can also boost the odds because it gives bacteria more time to break down tryptophan metabolites in the body.
It is unclear how common PUBS is, but it has been described as an 'uncommon phenomenon' in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Further analysis by medics, led Dr Siddharth Pandey, revealed his purple urine was actually clear - just not its usual, healthy colour.
Tests of his urine tested positive for E. coli, leading doctors to believe he had a UTI. Cystitis is usually caused by E. coli bacteria in the bladder.



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k

Lord, we will keep thanking you for our life.
It can only be God for good health.

India

Not surprised.

Wish him a quick and permanent healing.

wonderful

really weird, but noting is impossible