The disadvantages of holding urine and its remedies

If you feel the urge to urinate, you need to go to the toilet immediately. Never choose to hold your urine because of laziness. If you hold your urine for a long time, it will cause great damage to your bladder. Because if a person holds urine for a long time, it may cause damage to the muscles of his urinary system. Over time, urinary incontinence may occur. Next, let’s understand the disadvantages of holding urine and how to remedy it in time?

1. What are the consequences of holding urine?

1. Damage to bladder function

Holding urine can cause neurological dysfunction, thereby weakening the tension of the bladder muscles, causing difficulty in urination and triggering urinary retention. If urine cannot be discharged in time, it can cause bladder sphincter dysfunction, leading to urinary incontinence.

2. Cause urinary tract infection and urinary stones

Holding urine will cause the metabolites and toxins in the urine to accumulate and become more concentrated, which can easily lead to urinary tract infection. In addition, if urine stays in the bladder for a longer time, it is easy for crystals to precipitate and remain in the bladder, causing urinary stones.

3. Damage to kidney function

When urine stays in the bladder for a long time, it will provide convenient conditions for the growth of bacteria in it. As the bacteria multiply in large numbers, they will continue to invade tissues. Once upstream, they can cause pyelitis. Severe urinary tract infections may also cause kidney failure.

4. Cause gynecological problems

Holding urine frequently can cause the position of a woman's uterus to shift, and the bladder will severely compress the uterus, which will hinder the outflow of menstrual blood and can lead to severe dysmenorrhea symptoms. It can also squeeze the nerve plexus in front of the sacrum and cause low back pain.

5. Urinary syncope

After holding urine for a long time, suddenly urinating with force will cause a sudden and sharp increase in pressure in the chest cavity, and it is also easy to have bradycardia caused by vagal nerve reflex, which can lead to urinary syncope.

6. Cause prostatitis

If you hold your urine for a long time, bacteria in the urinary tract will retrograde through the prostatic duct to the prostate, which will cause infection. Studies have shown that this is an important cause of prostatitis.

7. Induce bladder cancer

Urine often stays in the bladder for a long time, and the toxic and harmful substances in it will stimulate the bladder mucosal epithelial cells for a long time. Frequent urine holding behavior may induce bladder cancer. Data shows that people who have the habit of holding their urine have a 3-5 times higher risk of cancer than ordinary people.

2. How to remedy the situation after holding urine

1. Drink more water to promote urination

In order to avoid harm to the body caused by toxins in urine, you should drink more water to stimulate the urge to urinate and allow bacteria and metabolic waste to be excreted with urine.

2. Regular urination

To avoid urine staying in the bladder for a long time, it is best to develop a habit of regular urination, urinating every 1-2 hours after drinking water.

3. Urinating before bed

It is recommended to drink less water before going to bed, no more than half a cup of water, and urinate once before going to bed.

4. Eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more

Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, maintain moderate exercise, promote metabolism, and help the body excrete more waste.