B12 and fluorescent urine

[richarduklon]

Hi,

My friend who has ME has started taking Enzymatic Therapy - B-12 Infusion, 1 Mg, sublingually and has reported a change in their urine.

Would this be a indication of it not being processed or just excess being passed through the body.

Thanks

Richard

 

[Martial]

Whatever is not used will be peed out, this is very normal and sometimes even funny to see your pee turn neon yellow or green. B vitamins complexes, b12, and methyl folate have been notorious for this with me... lol

Just because there is change in urine color also does not indicate it has not been used just a common effect as b vitamins are all water soluble.

 

[whodathunkit]

@richarduklon, Freddd mentions a change in urine color and B12 intake, but I can't remember what he has to say about it or what he said it means. Suggest you do some research of his old posts.

B2 is what normally turns my pee yellow and I've heard that's a sign that your body is using it. B12 hasn't really had any effect on my urine color, though, and I take pretty big doses. Don't know if we can or should extrapolate any meaning to that fact when it comes to your friend, however, since our physical conditions are likely very different. Just mentioning it.

 

[Gloria H]

Hi,

My friend who has ME has started taking Enzymatic Therapy - B-12 Infusion, 1 Mg, sublingually and has reported a change in their urine.

Would this be a indication of it not being processed or just excess being passed through the body.

Thanks

Richard

Is your friend's urine florescence seen with ordinary daylight or some other kind of light [like UV]?

 

[PeterPositive]

Seems strange for just a 1mg dose. B12 can make urine reddish but it's unlikely for that dosage.
At at 2mg/day my pee doesn't change color at all.

Maybe your friend is also taking B2 (riboflavin)? That's the vitamin that adds the yellow color to the B complex pill and causes a glowing yellow urine. When I take 25-30mg it's pretty funny to watch the kind of color it comes out. It's like neon pee

 

[PeterPositive]

Whatever is not used will be peed out, this is very normal and sometimes even funny to see your pee turn neon yellow or green.

Green? Wow, that I haven't seen so far. Well if it happens I won't freak out. What causes the green color exactly?

 

[peggy-sue]

I don't know what makes it green, but all urine fluoresces under UV.

 

[richarduklon]

Is your friend's urine florescence seen with ordinary daylight or some other kind of light [like UV]?

Hi,

I think its under normal lighting as in sun or lightbulb.

 

[richarduklon]

Just to add that I got them:

Biocare B Plex Vegetable as well to go with the b12.


http://www.biocare.co.uk/default.as...Guid=23660&PageItemGroupGuid=21#productAnchor

so maybe this is causing the colour?

Richard

 

[whodathunkit]

Just to add that I got them:

Biocare B Plex Vegetable as well to go with the b12.


http://www.biocare.co.uk/default.as...Guid=23660&PageItemGroupGuid=21#productAnchor

so maybe this is causing the colour?

Richard

If it has any kind of B2 in it, then yes, that would cause the color not the B12. I can't tell if it has B2 in it from clicking the link you sent.

 

[richarduklon]

If it has any kind of B2 in it, then yes, that would cause the color not the B12. I can't tell if it has B2 in it from clicking the link you sent.

Hi it has B2 @ 50 mg.


Regards

Richard

 

[Phred]

I tried a new b-complex with that much b2 and had the same thing happen to my urine. Since I was just excreting all that b2 I decided to switch back to my old b-complex. The old one had more acceptable levels of other b's.