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From: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: blue urine from food
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.185424.15622@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Dec 90 18:54:24 GMT
References: <1990Oct29.161332.27997@agate.berkeley.edu> <999@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <4187@kitty.UUCP> <2070@calmasd.Prime.COM> <9279@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <9279@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> judge@work.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thomas Judge) writes:
>In article <2070@calmasd.Prime.COM> msgctr@calmasd.Prime.COM (Message Center) writes:
>
>>Of course, it only looks like that after I've taken my vitamin 
>>packet... Quick too, take vitamins at 8:00 by 9:30 urine is 
>
>I think its one of the B vitamins that causes this as I can take a B
>supplement and get the same effect. Anyone know why?
>-tj

A drug called sulphasalazine (an aminosalicylate) turns urine yellow.