What the Color of Your Urine Can Tell You About Your Health

# What the Color of Your Urine Can Tell You About Your Health

Urine color can provide useful clues about hydration, diet, medications, and sometimes health problems. Most changes are harmless and temporary, but certain colors—especially when they persist or come with pain, fever, jaundice, or blood—should be medically evaluated.

The most important point is that **urine color alone cannot diagnose a disease**. It is only one clue among many.

## Clear or Very Pale Yellow Urine

Pale yellow urine usually means you are well hydrated.

Completely clear urine can also simply