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When you are in good health and are well-hydrated, your urine should look clear and light yellow, like the color of straw. Cloudy urine is when your urine doesn't have its usual clear, light yellowish color. Cloudy urine every now and then is common and often harmless. But if your urine is often cloudy, or if you have repeated episodes of cloudy urine, it's important to identify the cause. What does cloudy urine look like? Cloudy urine looks murky white or milky yellow. Unlike normal urine, cloudy urine is not clear. What does cloudy urine mean? Urine contains water, salts, and kidney waste. Their balance determines your urine pH--how alkaline (basic) or acidic it is. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 as neutral. A normal urine pH range is from 4.5 to 8 pH. Urine under 5 pH is considered acidic. Urine at 8 pH or higher is alkaline. High levels of alkaline in your urine are the most common cause of your pee turning cloudy or milky. Fixing cloudy urine may involve something as simple as drinking enough water or changing what you eat. Or it may point to an underlying health issue. You should reach out to your doctor if your urine doesn't turn clear after a few days. Smelly cloudy urine It's common for urine odor to change. Often the odor change is temporary and harmless, caused by whether you are dehydrated or what you had to eat. Drinking enough water during the day can help prevent smelly and cloudy urine. Call your doctor if your urine odor lasts more than a few days to rule out an infection or other cause.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a neurological disease in cattle that gets worse over time. Instead of viruses or bacteria, it's caused by an infection from an abnormal version of a protein, called a prion. For reasons still unknown, this protein becomes harmful and destroys nervous system tissue in the brain and spinal cord. Scientists think the first cases of BSE happened in the U.K. in the 1970s. Two cases were found in 1986. It's possible the disease arose first when cattle were fed meat-and-bone meal containing the BSE prion. It also may have come from products from sheep with a prion disease called scrapie. The outbreak spread in the U.K. because young calves were eating prion-infected meat-and-bone meal. Cows don't get BSE from being near other cows that have it. But it can be transmitted through the food supply. An outbreak of mad cow disease peaked in the U.K. in 1993, with about 1,000 cases every week. By the end of 2015, the U.K. had recorded more than 184,500 cases. But BSE is a lot less prevalent now, with only two cases reported in the U.K. in 2015. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has tested hundreds of thousands of cattle for BSE. But as of August 2018, only 6 cases have ever turned up in the U.S. and another 20 cases in Canada. The levels of BSE in the U.S. and Canada are so low it's hard to measure it. The best estimates suggest there are 0.167 cases per million in the U.S. and three to eight cases per million in Canada. What does mad cow disease look like in cattle? A cow with BSE may have trouble walking or standing up. They may seem nervous or aggressive. But it usually takes 4-6 years after a cow is infected with prions for it to show any signs of illness. There's no test for BSE in a living cow either. Once symptoms show up, cows usually die within weeks or months.