Urinary System Writing

The urinary tract system. An interesting thing. I doubt you know much about it apart from the fact it ends with it coming out your...well you know. Well within these four paragraphs is as much as you need to know(and possibly all you want to know)about the urinary tract system.As you might know(unless your blind) your urine is a pale gold/yellowish colour.The urinary system is basically made up of five things.The kidney’s,urethra,ureters,bladder,and the...you know what . The way it works is reasonably simple . Well when I say reasonably simple… the kidneys filter blood and take all those nasty toxins and chemicals and deposit them into the bladder through the two small tubes called ureters.Then the urethra carries it out into the toilet(well unless you don’t get there...)so pretty simple right. Although we haven’t got to the really technical part yet. When you’re dehydrated you may have noticed that the colour of your pee is slightly darker than usual the same happens when you have a kidney problem. The colour of your urine depends on what you have eaten, drank, inhaled and been exposed to.

Do you know why the colour of pee changes?I do. But that’s not the question. Do you? If not your answers are right here right now in this paragraph. Basically the standard colours for urine are different shades of yellow. It more or less depends on what you have eaten, drunk,inhaled and been exposed to. If dehydrated the colour of your pee turns a pretty revolting browny yellow. The colour of your pee can really vary. It can turn red(don’t worry not because of blood) because you have eaten too much rhubarb,beetroot and blueberries but personally I hate all of those things. Strange right? It can also turn a strange green or blue colour because of a rare genetic disease. If this happens too you don’t worry you won’t die or anything it could just be food colouring.

Your urine’s colour varies as explained in the paragraph before but can it tell if you have anything wrong with you? As a matter of fact it sometimes can! Urine is a clever thing. It’s like your bodies way of warning you that something is wrong. Of course there are other ways of your body warning you but we aren’t concentrating on any of those things. It can sometimes tell you if you have a kidney or liver problem. White blood cells can sometimes appear(this does not mean the colour of urine) which indicates an infection. But the most common reason for you urine colour changing is dehydration. Normal colour for urine=pale yellow-gold. Abnormal colour=Brown-dark-yellow.

Basically the urinary tract system is just the bodies ingenious way of removing nasty toxins and chemicals out of your bodies. The bodies ingenious way of telling you whether you have something wrong with you. Did you know that urine is not magical? That’s what one of my “reliable sources” told me.Yes it may be sterile but it’s not magical. That was possibly the best bit of info I have found out about the urinary system.Although I wish it was magical...Okay getting slightly off topic here. Hopefully you have learnt a lot about the urinary system and think it’s as weird as I do.