When people have Purple Urine Bag Syndrome, it has to share space with various kinds of bacteria. These bacteria, present in the urine as a result of infection, shear the indoxyl sulfate of its ...

This so-called purple urine bag syndrome resolved after treatment with ceftazidime. The phenomenon occurs over a 2-year period in about 8% of patients with indwelling urinary catheters. 1 The syndrome ...

Medics at the Hôpital de Bicêtre, on the outskirts of Paris, diagnosed the unidentified 70-year-old with 'purple urinary bag syndrome' (PUBS).

After about four days, her urine turned back to a normal color and the pH level dropped back down. Cases of purple urine bag syndrome are relatively rare.

Purple urinary bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare phenomenon caused by a UTI By STEPHEN MATTHEWS FOR MAILONLINE Published: 10:45 EDT, 20 July 2018 | Updated: 16:02 EDT, 20 July 2018 ...

Cite this as: Hillebrand U, Schmitt R: Purple urine in the catheter bag. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2022; 119: 764. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0197 Figure Enlarge All figures Purple Urine in the Catheter Bag ...

But in this case, it was simply a rare, harmless chemical reaction also known as “purple urinary bag syndrome” (PUBS). This phenomenon was first recorded in medical literature in 1978 and appears on ...

Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is a rare side effect in a patient with urinary tract infection where urine in the catheter bags and tubing turn purple, the medics explained. A UTI caused a ...

Other risk factors include "female gender, constipation and chronic renal failure,” per a 2018 BMJ report. The woman's purple urine. (The New England Journal of Medicine ©2019) ...

Purple is probably the least likely colour you would ever expect your urine to turn. But for a 70-year-old man, it really happened, the Daily Mail reported .

Translated from the original German by Christine Rye. Cite this as: Hillebrand U, Schmitt R: Purple urine in the catheter bag. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2022; 119: 764. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0197 ...