Comments on: Question

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:24:04 +0000

My ears are burning!

This teaches me to follow up on my comment-posting.

By: adventuregrrl

adventuregrrl — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:56:49 +0000

I just wanted to add that many vitamin/supplement manufacturers (particularly poorer quality) add B2 to the coating on their tablets so you’ll think they are breaking down in your gut and you are absorbing all the nutrients (see how radio-active yellow my urine is!), when they probably just going right through you more or less intact. I suppose at least you are getting your B’s…

By: hyo sen

hyo sen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:01:50 +0000

calcium & b vits

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:36:08 +0000

If your pee is anything other than very light, pale yellow or clear, you should probably drink more water.

By: mustelid

mustelid — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:48:58 +0000

I get that from my once-a-day multivitamin. As long as my pee’s still yellow, I’m good. And that anti-spasm stuff you get for UTI’s always turned my pee deep orange, which would’ve been really alarming if the nurse hadn’t warned me about that side effect beforehand.

By: preying mantis

preying mantis — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:11:47 +0000

“However, if you are taking megadoses, which it sounds as if you are if this is happening,”

That happens to me just from taking my multivitamin at night, no megadoses necessary.

By: Mighty Ponygirl

Mighty Ponygirl — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:33:30 +0000

Vitamin Asparagus

By: julia

julia — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:18:40 +0000

Funny, I’d've thought it’d be beta carotine (which is a precursor to A) but it’s apparently a waste product of riboflavin, which (hi, Jen!) is indeed B2.

However, if you are taking megadoses, which it sounds as if you are if this is happening, you need to ramp up your water consumption and check your multis for fat-soluble vitamins, just in case. Overdosing A and D is A Very Bad Thing.

/someone’s mother

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:24:36 +0000

That would be most multi-B vitamins. Why?

Because my pee is bright yellow!

Also, I’d heard that it was some vitamin, but I couldn’t remember which one.

Aaaand a question like that brings out the commenters. I mean, just mention a bodily fluid, and Lauren shows up.

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:42:16 +0000

It’s excess riboflavin being excreted. Since most B-complex multivitamins include ribolflavin (as well as the one-a-day multivitamins that have all kinds of stuff), you’ll get bright yellow urine after taking them.