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My urine is bitter

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I want to know if it is normal for one’s urine to taste bitter

Jelili (by SMS)

The taste of urine varies from watery to slightly bitter, sour and even sugary. Normal urine is usually salty and somehow bitter. A sweet-tasting urine may be the first sign we have of diabetes. Jaundice makes urine taste as bitter as gall.

But it is well known that what you eat and drink, including medications, does affect the odour and flavour of urine. So unless you have genuine illness symptoms, the taste of your urine has no bearing at all upon your health.

It’s only a slightly useful diagnostic test when other symptoms are present, and modern doctors no longer rely on a taste test but use simple, cheap, accurate and fast urinalysis kits instead.

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