# Foamy urine -- do I need to see the doc right away?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 24, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525 "2012-01-24T19:35:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/21 "2012-01-25T01:52:02Z")
Medical advice is best suited to IMHO.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/22 "2012-01-25T03:45:07Z")
> [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](#):
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> This is now on the list of things I never thought I’d hear but have. How does that even happen? Fistula of some sort?
Also can happen after anal sex done without using a condom. Fecal matter is introduced into the urethra via forceful thrusting, and remains there until expelled the next time the person urinates. Rare, but not unknown.
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### Author:  [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/23 "2012-01-25T04:01:59Z")
How could I forget [Poop Noodle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xc_BJxdDgg)? (NSFW or pretty much anywhere else).
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### Author:  [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/24 "2012-01-25T04:14:28Z")
> [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](#):
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> How could I forget [Poop Noodle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xc_BJxdDgg)? (NSFW or pretty much anywhere else).
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Um.
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Why did I click on that?
Why?
My eyes … I’m so sorry, eyes … I didn’t know …
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### Author:  [@Fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fang)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/25 "2012-01-26T19:02:23Z")
Since my internet-enabled hypochrondria was getting the best of me, I decided to go in yesterday and they tested my urine. No proteins found! Doc says everything looks normal, so I’m good until my next unnecessary medical freakout.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/26 "2012-01-26T19:13:05Z")
Did he offer any explanation?
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### Author:  [@Fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fang)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/27 "2012-01-26T19:18:19Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> Did he offer any explanation?
Nah, I’m still waiting for one more blood test to come in, but he said a lot of the time they basically can’t find an explanation. Without any other evidence, it seems it’s unlikely to be pathological.
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### Author:  [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/28 "2012-01-26T20:21:42Z")
WHY am I remembering the South Park episode about “Scrotie McBoogerball”?
~VOW
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/29 "2012-01-28T00:16:07Z")
It’s generally caused by not masturbating enough, and consequently you get a semen backup that combines with your urine and foams things up when you urinate. To stay mentally and physically healthy men have to get the poison out, especially young men.
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### Author:  [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/30 "2012-01-28T01:57:12Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> It’s generally caused by not masturbating enough, and consequently you get a semen backup that combines with your urine and foams things up when you urinate. To stay mentally and physically healthy men have to get the poison out, especially young men.
If this was the case, then clinical presentation would have to be so exceedingly rare as to make appearance in the medical literature practically non-existent.😛
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### Author:  [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foamy-urine-do-i-need-to-see-the-doc-right-away/610525/31 "2012-01-28T23:29:16Z")
When I read your post, I figured ureter really sick, or it’s something normal. I’m glad to hear it’s not the case that urine big trouble.
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