Do I need to hold my urine during a gynecological abdominal ultrasound?

Holding urine is very painful, especially when you have to wait in a long line for a check-up when you feel the urge to urinate. When it is finally your turn, the doctor says that you did not hold it enough. It is really frustrating, so most people are still unwilling to hold their urine for a check-up. So whether women should hold their urine when undergoing gynecological B-ultrasound examination has become a question of concern to everyone. Let's take a look at the answer below.

Regarding the question of whether you need to hold your urine during a gynecological abdominal ultrasound, the doctor gave a positive answer that it is necessary. Because the uterus and ovaries are located deep inside the pelvic cavity, the small intestine tends to protrude into the pelvic cavity. When performing an abdominal B-ultrasound, the peristalsis of the intestines and their contents will interfere with the image of the uterus and ovaries, causing them to appear unclear. Therefore, you need to drink plenty of water before the examination to fill your bladder and push your intestines upward. If an ultrasound examination is performed when the bladder is not full, the gas in the bladder and the gas in the uterus will overlap, causing misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis. However, not all gynecological transabdominal B-ultrasounds require holding urine. It is not necessary in the following situations: After 8 weeks of pregnancy, the uterus grows and rises into the abdominal cavity, pushing the intestines naturally upwards. There is amniotic fluid in the uterine cavity, so there is no need to hold urine to observe the fetus.

You need to drink about 6 to 8 cups of water half an hour to one hour before the examination. Generally speaking, it is best to hold your urine until you feel the urge to urinate. This is not like what many people "rumor" say, that you need to hold your urine to the limit, because an overfull bladder will compress the pelvic organs, causing them to shift and deform, and some subtle lesions are often covered up, such as small uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, etc., which will not be shown. The signs of pregnancy (gestational sac, embryo) are also not clear due to being flattened by pressure. Therefore, holding urine for too long, just like holding urine for too little, can cause diagnostic difficulties and errors.

The sign of good filling is that when the subject lies flat, the lower abdomen is slightly raised in a shallow arc shape, which sinks when pressure is applied and is tolerable. If the abdomen is bulging very high, the belly is very hard, and a little pressure is unbearable, it is because you have held your urine too much and are overfilled.

B-ultrasound can clearly check female pelvic inflammatory disease and adnexitis. In order to make the examination more accurate, it is necessary to hold urine when doing gynecological abdominal B-ultrasound. In the above introduction, we have also made it clear about the reasons and methods of holding urine. Here we would like to remind everyone that gynecological abdominal B-ultrasound should be performed to avoid the menstrual period.