Would you go to A and E with this? (picture included)

[BalaRua]

DH was weeing red yesterday and this is his wee this morning. He has a cold and has been taking lemsip. He's definitely had a temperature although no thermometer to check. Would this warrant a and e given the day/date? Thanks

CountessOfStrathearn

Please may I ask you something - when people talk about going to A and E and it only being an emergency - does that often (as i think you are saying in this case) mean it's an emergency to urgently rule something out?

Well yes Mountain, I'd expect a nurse to suggest that! I wasn't getting at all nurses, only at whoever it was suggesting this was not an A&E issue!

mountain, yes, I suppose that is what I am saying. Take, for example, chest pain. Most of the time it is a viral infection/indigestion/rib pain, but (depending on history and examination - clearly not every single chest pain needs to be seen in A&E) you need to know if it is a heart attack or a PE, and sometimes that can only be excluded with bloods/X-ray/ECG etc.

In this case, I think rhabdomyolysis needs to be excluded urgently, although, to be honest, anyone with urine like that needs their bloods checked and needs to be on a whacking lot of fluid and that can only happen in hospital.

Hope the OP's DH is feeling much better this evening.

Why has my post been deleted? All
I said was lots of people can't trust their gut because their gut won't tell them anything useful....

My Mil once trusted her gut and went to A&E because she coughed up some pink phlegm. You don't want people like that trusting their gut.....

Coughing pink phlegm can indicate heart failure. Just sayin'

Rhabdomyolysis or acute glomerulonephritis - either way has to have serious renal problem excluded

Wolverbampton, did you not also refer to some posters as fucking stupid though, in that same post?

I agree with you

Hope everything is ok.

itsmine I know, I was just feeling frustrated as my mum and grandma (we all live together with DUncle) are both from medical backgrounds, so were very laid back about the whole thing. When stuff like this happens I worry and fret, because I don't know what's happening or why. FWIW, prescription has now been picked up :) I misunderstood how 111 works, I think.

Hope all is well, OP.

Hope your husband is okay, you must be so worried, I'd have went to a&e if I saw pee that colour too

Zoe - not sure what your issue is with repeated attacks

Poster at 11.32 said she was a nurse and would get it checked but not A&E

Have I said I have medical or nurse training on this thread???? NOPE
Have I said I'm s nurse and the OP must follow my advice??? NOPE
Should we base every life decision on what mumsnet advises????? NOPE

I gave my opinion just like everyone else, just because it differs from yours there is no need for your continuous biting.
I wasn't giving medical advice IT WAS AN OPINION

I'm a nurse. The last time I saw urine like that was my dad's, approx 15 hours before he died of renal failure. I usually tell everyone to avoid A+E, but any sign of renal/liver damage/failure unexpectedly really is an emergency - you can only live for approx 12 hours without any functional kidneys!

Goodness me, I am in no way medical but would definitely want to see someone with wee that looked like that. I hope all.is OK OP.

As an aside, I believe my nearest walk in is about an hours drive away.

Wishing you all the best op. I hope your husband is doing OK.

Hope all is well

I have no idea who is or isn't a nurse - it isn't that relevant in the end. I am 'repeatedly attacking' because it was not just an opinion you stated, it was an active and repeated ridiculing of the idea of A&E ('And this is why our A&E departments are struggling! Why not call an ambulance too? hmm').
People posting in situations like this are vulnerable and often very open to the suggestion that they might be overreacting. Unless you are 100% certain of what you are saying, it seems highly dangerous to be pooh-poohing the idea of A&E, especially when there are doctors and nurses on the thread saying this could be a symptom of end-stage kidney failure!!!

Zoe, to be fair, lots of other posters picked up on that one post and that poster did clarify what she meant. No poster should ever be held accountable to advice that is given on an Internet forum. You never know who someone is or if the advice they are giving is correct.

Hope you and do are home soon , op.

Oh right so to post on an Internet forum you need to be 100% correct???

Mumonashoestring this is bang on so I'm repeating it :)

"FFS Mozz our A&E depts are struggling because of systemic funding and management issues, staffing problems and lack of secondary and continuation care services to discharge patients to, not because the occasional person starts showing potential symptoms of liver failure on a day when their GP surgery isn't open."

Hope he's ok, OP.

Hope your hubby is ok OP. Sending hugs and

Loving all the "call the GP, don't waste A&E's time" and "oh blood in urine isn't serious" comments on here. FFS.

My mum had bloody and dark urine (not THAT dark) and was told time and time again BY THE GP it was a urine infection.

Except it wasn't. It was a rare form of bladder cancer which we found out about when we phoned for an ambulance one night because she felt so ill and knew in our guts it wasn't a UTI.

She lived for 4 months after that. And she had spent the 2 months previous going back and forth the her GP. So... wee that colour the OP was RIGHT to go to A&E.

thatdearoctopus no am
Now wondering if have had an out of body experience which involved typing out messages calling people fucking idiots?!

I was in a walk in the other day and they had to call an ambulance for some poor teenager. Not everyone goes to A and E when they should.