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So I know about the colors of urine (dark means dehydrated), but what does cloudy mean?

My only thought on this is when it happened my previous meal was a bag of pretzels, but this has occurred before in a morning urination.

Is it just my body expelling excess salt?
gpt
Cloudiness is caused by proteins, crystals, or cells in the urine, which are all normal. Cloudy urine isn't pathologic in itself. It also depends on *how* cloudy it is, which you can't tell by looking at it in the toilet. When we look at it in the lab, there are 4 grades of turbidity: Clear, hazy, cloudy, and turbid. If all the urinalysis tests are normal, the only time we worry about it is if it comes up turbid.

TL;DR It's normal.