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Many medications can cause blood in the urine, usually medications that thin the blood to prevent it from clotting, like aspirin.
Blood in the urine is often indicative of malignancy in the kidneys, bladder, prostate, or urethra.
With ibuprofen, the bleeding is usually caused by nonspecific inflammation of the kidney, which is usually not harmful.
Gross hematuria is the term for blood in the urine with visible blood, as opposed to microscopic hematuria, which can only be recognized by looking through a microscope.
Source: | This article first appeared on Express.co.uk