# What might make a person suddenly start smelling like urine?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-make-a-person-suddenly-start-smelling-like-urine/556809 "2010-10-11T18:24:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-make-a-person-suddenly-start-smelling-like-urine/556809/21 "2010-10-12T20:14:37Z")

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My grandfather had pernicious anemia and got regular injections of Vitamin B-12. After he’d get a shot he would smell, well, not exactly like urine, but funky enough that someone might think he smelled like it.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-make-a-person-suddenly-start-smelling-like-urine/556809/22 "2010-10-12T22:23:06Z")

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Perhaps she has a new sexual fetish

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