Your urine can tell you a lot about your health. While its color is a good indicator of hydration levels, eating habits, and undiagnosed medical conditions, its scent can also tell you what’s going on inside your body.
“Normal urine, if you’re a little wet, usually has very limited odor,” Ojas Shah, MD, a New York-based urologist and professor of urology at Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia Midtown Physicians, tells SELF. Sometimes you may notice that your urine smells more than usual. Perhaps the slight change or increase in potency was due to something very simple, like the food you ate. But some odors can indicate an underlying health problem.
Here are all the things that are likely to be giving you smelly urine, from the completely benign to the significant ones.
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