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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Reduced urine. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
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Why: Establishing the length of time that there has been reduced urine will help determine the level of risk.
Why: Complete anuria (lack of urine) is strongly suggestive of complete obstruction of both ureters or complete obstruction of a single kidney. It is a medical emergency. See lack_of_urine.
Why: dehydration is a frequent cause of reduced urine.
Why: e.g. fever, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive exercise, hot humid conditions, excessive sweating, bleeding, extensive burns, , diuretic use, uncontrolled or undiagnosed diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, sickle cell disease.
Why: e.g. gout increases the risk of urinary tract stones.
Why: some medications may cause renal failure and consequent reduced or lack of urine including sulfonamides, amphotericin B, gold compounds and lead; prolonged exposure to methysergide increases the risk of retroperitoneal fibrosis ( a condition where the ureters become embedded in dense fibrous tissue with resultant unilateral or bilateral obstruction); some medications may cause urinary retention including imipramine.
Why: associated with reduced urine suggests upper urinary tract obstruction. It can be dull or sharp, constant or intermittent.
Why: associated with reduced urine may suggest heart attack, lung infarction or dissecting aneurysm.
Why: may suggest dissecting aneurysm.
Why: would suggest glomerulonephritis, acute tubular necrosis, intravascular hemolysis and kidney stones.
Why: Fever associated with reduced urine may suggest a urinary tract infection that is complicating a urinary tract obstruction; or an infection causing septic shock and reduced urine output. Note also that fever, itself from any cause may cause dehydration and reduced urine.
Why: e.g. pain in the loin radiating to the groin, pallor, sweating, vomiting, restlessness. If there is complete obstruction of both ureters, this may cause complete lack of urine.
Why: e.g. prior to acute retention of urine (lack of urine flow) may experience frequency of urination, passing urine at night (nocturia), difficulty in initiating urination, reduced force of the urine stream, post-void dribbling of urine. Acute retention of urine presents with pain over the bladder.
Why: e.g. as for benign prostatic enlargement of the prostate; may also have features of metastatic spread of cancer such as bone pain.
Why: e.g. reduced urine output, vomiting, confusion, bruising.
Why: The early stages of renal failure are often completely without symptoms. Later symptoms may include tiredness, loss of appetite, insomnia, frequency of urination, itch, nausea, vomiting, restless legs. In more terminal cases of chronic renal failure, urine output is reduced.
Why: e.g. progressive shortness of breath on exertion, bilateral ankle swelling that is usually symmetrical and worse in the evenings, with improvement during the night. As the heart failure progresses urine output reduces and swelling ascends to involve the legs, thighs, genitalia and abdomen.
Why: e.g. cold pale blue skin, confusion, sweating, rapid pulse, reduced urine output.
The following list of conditions have 'Reduced urine' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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