Post Date April, 15 2023
Drink water and run to the toilet - this is inevitable, but why do you run so often?
Whether around us or in online messages, we can see that there are not a few people who are troubled by "frequent urination". They often drink a glass of water and have to go to the toilet within half an hour. Sometimes they even go to the toilet twice or three times in a row. At this time, someone must suspect that they have kidney problems!
If the editor told you that not all frequent urination is called "frequent urination", do you believe it?
How many times do you urinate
Normal people usually urinate 6 to 8 times a day. If the number of urination often increases significantly, it can be defined as frequency of urination. It is normal to get up one or two times at night. If it is often more than two times, it can be defined as increased nocturia. If you just drink water, you will reach a peak of urination after about one hour, and the normal urine volume is about 400 ml each time.
It is estimated that some people will be unable to sit still. They urinate eight times a day. It seems that it is easy to "exceed the standard". They go to the toilet about one hour after drinking water. It seems that sometimes they go to the toilet in 10-20 minutes. Therefore, many people will drink less water to reduce the number of urination, but this is wrong.
On the premise of excluding pathological reasons, the so-called "frequent urination" patients are mostly caused by excessive hydration. Our body is always maintaining the balance of water. When there is more water, it will be adjusted to discharge more, and when there is less water, it will discharge less. So running to the toilet after drinking water can not be a signal to judge whether a person's kidney function is normal.
Frequent urination, why?
For healthy people with normal kidney function, if they have enough water in the body, they will urinate frequently, which can only be explained as pathological factors.
Maybe it's a urinary system infection
After inflammation stimulates the bladder mucosa, urination will often occur when there is little urination. However, this frequent urination is not a bad thing. It can drive some bacteria out of the bladder through frequent urination.
In addition to the frequency of urination and some discomfort at the initial stage of the disease, patients with urinary tract infection will also be accompanied by urgency and pain in urination as the disease progresses. Serious patients may also have hematuria.
Or the bladder is affected
The bladder is an organ that stores urine. Under normal circumstances, the bladder is sufficient to store more than 300 ml of urine. However, when the effective volume of the bladder decreases, the storage of urine will decrease, and it is easy to produce urine in a short time.
The most common is women's pregnancy. If ovarian tumors or cysts, uterine fibroids, obesity and other reasons, the bladder will also be subjected to external pressure, and even a small amount of urine will produce strong urine. Therefore, if the elderly women continue to urinate frequently, we must pay enough attention to it. In addition, the stimulation of chronic inflammation such as vaginitis, pelvic inflammation and endometriosis may also affect the feeling of the bladder, leading to frequent urination.
Is it diabetes? Diabetes insipidus?
In addition to the causes of urinary system, diabetes patients will urinate more than 8 times a day when they drink water normally; If you drink more water, it will increase on the original basis. In patients with diabetes insipidus, due to the lack of antidiuretic hormone, the kidney excretes more water, which will also lead to increased urination.
The "power" of spirit is also great
Many people have the feeling that they have to urinate before going to bed, before going out, before taking an exam, and before getting on the bus, but they may urinate again soon, which is the result of mental function.
Generally, when there is 200-300ml of urine in the bladder, we will want to go to the toilet. When it is less than 200ml, we will not have the intention to urinate. But when we are nervous, the autonomic nerve is excited, and the body endocrine changes. We want to go to the toilet before we have saved 100ml. Frequent urination caused by mental stress will not cause serious consequences for physical health.
In addition, some neuropathies related to urination may also cause nervous system reflex disorder, leading to frequent urination, such as psychogenic polyuria and neurocystitis. If you often suffer from insomnia, indigestion, or severe neurasthenia, you often urinate frequently before going to bed, which is often seen in middle-aged women. The frequency of urination caused by mental factors is usually more frequent and less frequent, and there are obvious signs of mental effect. In the case of excluding organic diseases, some psychological adjustment can be carried out.
