What’s wrong with urine that looks like barley tea?

Urine like barley tea may be due to physiological reasons such as drinking less water and pathological reasons such as jaundice and hematuria.
1. physiological changes: such as a lot of exercise, drink less water and other reasons, so that the kidneys produce less urine, will make the urine concentration, are caused by the urine color darker, like barley tea.
2. Pathological causes: If you suffer from certain diseases, such as jaundice, hematuria caused by urinary tract infections, stones, tumors, and glomerular diseases, etc., all of them may cause the urine to look like barley tea.
(1) Jaundice: due to hemolytic diseases, liver and gallbladder diseases, etc., may lead to excessive production of bilirubin in the body, which may result in urine like barley tea.
(2) hematuria: if the patient has urinary tract infection, stones, tumors, or suffers from glomerular disease, etc., it may cause hematuria, red is the most common color of blood in urine, but if the urinary tract bleeding is not particularly large, the urine will look like barley tea in appearance, but routine urine microscopy will find hematuria.
It is recommended that patients go to a regular hospital for a detailed examination to determine the cause and then take corresponding treatment measures.