Challenge: That's all I needed to make the diagnosis. What about you?(I'm kidding, this is a tough Encyclopedia Brown case)
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Appetite
One of your friends, a 25 year old woman, calls you up in the middle of the night panicked because she "peed blood." With a sigh, you go over to her apartment to calm her down. When you examine her urine, you find that it's not blood, just red urine. Weird. You can't quite put your finger on the diagnosis yet, but as you haven't seen her for a while, you two sit around the dining table catching up about the good old college years. As you're talking, you notice that she keeps going to the freezer to get ice cubes to chew on. When she opens her fridge, you see these.
Challenge: That's all I needed to make the diagnosis. What about you?
(I'm kidding, this is a tough Encyclopedia Brown case)
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Challenge: That's all I needed to make the diagnosis. What about you?(I'm kidding, this is a tough Encyclopedia Brown case)
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Beeturia, Anemia (iron-deficiency)
PS - those are a lot of beets!
Appetite
This is also iron deficiency anemia. Pica is an appetite for substances not fit for food such as clay, dirt, paper, or starch. This case describes pagophagia or pica for ice which is specific for iron deficiency anemia. The red urine and the image of beets suggest beeturia in which ingestion of beets leads to red urine. This is due to increased intestinal absorption and subsequent excretion of the red pigment betanin. This is an occasional manifestation of iron deficiency anemia.
Source: UpToDate; Wikipedia.
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