A urine sample positive in asparagus
Dear Scrubs,
I apologise for the agonising time between my posts. As Im sure you are aware, I am a busy professor with much underhand business and pretty lady friends to attend to. You understand where my priorities lie.
Let me tell you all a fact I recently discovered. I was out wining and dining one my many young lady friends at quite a fancy restaurant that had a delicacy for asparagus. Well, I did manage to comsume quite a portion of this fine vegetable along with much liquor (as did my young naive friend). Later that night, during urination, to my shock, I noticed quite a pungent smell to my urine. Ofcourse, naturally, obviously, I became worried about possible urinary tract infections, or worse still, an STD. Curse me for being so popular with my female students.
Any how, I gave a sample of my urine for analysis the next morning, and to my delight, it was as clean as a bell. Which got me pondering, why did my urine smell so foul...?
A few sleepless nights (not with women) later, I discovered the answer. The answer, my scrubs, is in the asparagus I was eating!
Asparagus, as I am sure you all know, is filled with sulfur-containing amino acids that break down during digestion into six sulfur-containing compounds. These can impart a unique smell to urine as they are excreted. It appears to occur in about 50% of the population! It is the same sulphur smell of the skunks in the back of my garden!
So do not wory folks, the asparagus syndrome is not a pathalogical condition, entirely normal infact. Your professor is fit and healthy - I can indeed go back safely to my promiscuous ways, for now at least!
I have started using the following treatment when I get a bout of asparagus urine. It works well but I woudnt recommend it for the faint hearted! It has distrubing effects! More later!
Yours with dysuria,
Prof
I apologise for the agonising time between my posts. As Im sure you are aware, I am a busy professor with much underhand business and pretty lady friends to attend to. You understand where my priorities lie.
Let me tell you all a fact I recently discovered. I was out wining and dining one my many young lady friends at quite a fancy restaurant that had a delicacy for asparagus. Well, I did manage to comsume quite a portion of this fine vegetable along with much liquor (as did my young naive friend). Later that night, during urination, to my shock, I noticed quite a pungent smell to my urine. Ofcourse, naturally, obviously, I became worried about possible urinary tract infections, or worse still, an STD. Curse me for being so popular with my female students.
Any how, I gave a sample of my urine for analysis the next morning, and to my delight, it was as clean as a bell. Which got me pondering, why did my urine smell so foul...?
A few sleepless nights (not with women) later, I discovered the answer. The answer, my scrubs, is in the asparagus I was eating!
Asparagus, as I am sure you all know, is filled with sulfur-containing amino acids that break down during digestion into six sulfur-containing compounds. These can impart a unique smell to urine as they are excreted. It appears to occur in about 50% of the population! It is the same sulphur smell of the skunks in the back of my garden!
So do not wory folks, the asparagus syndrome is not a pathalogical condition, entirely normal infact. Your professor is fit and healthy - I can indeed go back safely to my promiscuous ways, for now at least!
I have started using the following treatment when I get a bout of asparagus urine. It works well but I woudnt recommend it for the faint hearted! It has distrubing effects! More later!
Yours with dysuria,
Prof
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006.
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