The heavy and unpleasant odor of urine may be a normal phenomenon caused by long-term consumption of foods such as garlic and scallions, or it may be caused by diseases such as organophosphorus poisoning and phenylketonuria.
1. Physiological phenomenon: If you eat a lot of onions, garlic, durian and other strong-smelling foods for a long time, it can lead to a strong odor of urine, but if the examination did not find any physical abnormalities, it is a normal physiological phenomenon.
2. Organophosphorus poisoning: patients with organophosphorus poisoning will have a garlic odor in their urine and breath, which is due to the product of organophosphorus metabolism in the body is garlic odor.
3. Phenylketonuria: Phenylketonuria children’s urine and sweat will appear the smell of rat urine, this is due to the lack of phenylalanine hydroxylase, which makes the phenylalanine can not be transformed into tyrosine, but instead of generating phenylpyruvic acid, phenylacetic acid and phenyl lactic acid, and a large number of discharged from the urine, so that the children’s urine with a special smell of rat urine.
In addition to the factors listed above, diabetic ketoacidosis, renal insufficiency, hepatic insufficiency and other diseases can also lead to odor in the urine, if you can not judge for yourself whether it is a physiological factor that causes odor in the urine, please consult a doctor as soon as possible to avoid delay.