[Gpdd] Health: Orange Urine

[joan fagalde]

Hi Janet.  Why don't Guinea Pigs read the same text books we do?  Then maybe they'd stop coming up with these strange things.  Unless it's something dietary, I can't think of anything that would turn urine orange in a GP.  I've also never heard of ANY GP peeing into a bottle.  If it's possible, maybe you could bed little Isabel on a white towel tonight then take the fresh urine to the vet with you.  The vet can get urine, they just sorta palputate the bladder area and it usually works.  I'd take the towel too, just in case.  Tests are best run on fresh urine with very little contamination.  Good luck tomorrow and be sure and let us know what her vet says.
   
  Joan, slave to The Lady Bug
  

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Tomorrow I'm taking Isabel to the vet to see why she's peeing orange urine. 
(This isn't like the urine that dries brown-colored, but actually is 
orange!) I don't see any sign of blood (pink, red) and she doesn't seem to be in 
distress when she urinates. This has been going on for a couple of days. At 
first, I thought it was because she suddenly started to treat her dark 
brown-colored CareFresh as a gourmet delight, over and above timothy hay and Cavy 
Cuisine. I've put her back on aspen bedding yesterday, but as of this 
afternoon, we're still seeing orange. 

Admittedly, Shauna's description of taking a urine sample from Miss Zeussy 
makes me uncomfortable. But I have no idea how I would go about collecting a 
sample in a bottle before the appointment---is that even possible for a 
gp???? At any rate, I'm taking a white towel that Isabel wet to show the vet the 
orangey color. 

Any ideas as to what this could be???? 

Janet 
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