Patient C is an 18 year old healthy female. She has great difficulty producing a very small volume of urine, despite the fact that she has not urinated since the morning. It is discovered that she has only had one donut and two cups of coffee all day. The patient’s urine is an orange/ yellow colour and is very dark, however there is no odor exhibited from the urine, it also has a pH of 6.0. The patient’s urine has no glucose, protein, ketones, bilirubin, or nitrite. There is also no evidence of blood cells in the urine. The patient’s urine seems to be completely normal, despite the fact that it is very dark. This patient is most likely dehydrated. She finds it very difficult to produce urine, meaning, and the only liquids she has drunk since
