Post Date December, 02 2023
For male white-collar workers, holding urine has become a common practice, and there is no time to resolve internal emergencies until it is a last resort to catch up on projects. Experts remind you that once there is an internal emergency, it is best to solve it in a timely manner, and do not hold urine. There are many disadvantages of holding urine, the most serious of which is that holding urine can lead to impotence.
What are the hazards of holding urine?
Shanghai Apollo Hospital experts say that holding urine is medically known as "mandatory urine retention.". Holding urine for a long time can cause more and more urine to accumulate in the bladder. Failure to discharge urine containing bacteria and toxic substances in a timely manner can easily cause diseases such as cystitis, urethritis, painful urination, hematuria, or enuresis. "In severe cases, urinary tract infections can also spread upward to the kidneys, causing nephronephritis, and even affecting renal function.".
Holding urine can cause physiological and psychological tension, increase blood pressure in patients with hypertension, and cause angina and arrhythmia in patients with coronary heart disease.
Foreign research data show that the frequency of urination is closely related to the incidence rate of bladder cancer. The fewer the frequency of urination, the greater the risk of bladder cancer, because suffocation increases the action time of carcinogens in urine on the bladder. According to a recent research report by American scientists, those who have the habit of holding their urine are 3-5 times more likely to suffer from bladder cancer in the future.
Sexual dysfunction caused by holding urine
If urine is retained in the bladder for a long time, the pressure in the bladder will rise, leading to bacterial invasion of the bladder lining with self-protection ability, which will lead to cystitis. The cilia of certain pathogenic bacteria can also attach to the urinary tract mucosa and ascend through the ureter to the renal pelvis, causing pyelonephritis. Clinically, it presents with symptoms such as low back pain, frequent urination, painful urination, and hematuria. Prolonged and repeated chronic infections can also cause renal function damage, even uremia.
In addition, male genital erections and urination are controlled by the same group of nerves, and when people hold their urine for a long time, this group of nerves can experience excessive stress. "Once this group of nerves becomes dysfunctional, it is not only a matter of painful urination and dysuria, but also male sexual dysfunction such as impotence, which can affect fertility.".
