{"id":2857,"date":"2022-02-13T12:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T12:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2022-02-13T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T12:29:37","slug":"how-to-understand-blood-on-your-last-urine-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"How to Understand Blood on Your Last Urine Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you think you have had some urinary symptoms your doctor may test your urine with paper stick tests that look for various factors such as traces of blood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood can mean a UTI, but there are other causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you test positive, you should have enough evaluation to come up with a cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vigorous exercise that leads to some muscle breakdown which can cause red urine from something called myoglobulinuria, and it rarely can trigger a positive reading on those sticks as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ladies can have some residual blood from their period that is not coming from the bladder, but makes its way into the urine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even having sex too close to your doctors appointment can make the blood square read positive from semen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think you have had some urinary symptoms your doctor may test your urine with paper stick tests that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,14,12],"tags":[25,90,137],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gynecologic-cancer","category-our-gyno-health","category-gynos-guide-to-sex-life","tag-bladder","tag-menstrual-periods","tag-uti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}