{"id":3291,"date":"2025-10-17T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/what-does-dark-brown-urine-indicate\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:50:13","slug":"what-does-dark-brown-urine-indicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"What Does Dark Brown Urine Indicate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark brown urine appears when conjugated bilirubin or muscle pigment (myoglobin) enters urine. In hepatitis or bile obstruction, bilirubin darkens urine; after muscle injury or rhabdomyolysis, myoglobin causes similar discoloration. Labs: LFT, CK, and urinalysis differentiate both. https:\/\/www.merckmanuals.com\/professional\/hepatic-and-biliary-disorders\/cholestatic-disorders\/overview-of-cholestasis | https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK558963\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark brown or tea-colored urine often signifies bilirubin spill due to hepatic or biliary disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-conditions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}