Can holding urine cause urethritis?

In our daily life, we always hold urine for various reasons such as work or study. When this phenomenon occurs, many friends often don’t care so much, but over time it can easily have a great impact on our body, and it is also more likely to cause urethritis. So, will holding urine cause urethritis? Let’s take a brief look at it!

Yes.

1. The urethra is the sewer of the human body. Urine is very irritating and corrosive, which is one of the basic reasons.

2. The most fundamental reason is the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms into the urethra. These microorganisms are mainly gonococci, gonococci, mycoplasma, chlamydia, Candida albicans, Trichomonas and some bacteria resident in the human body.

3. Masturbation habits, excessive sexual intercourse, smoking, drinking, wearing tight underwear, long-term bicycle and horse riding, long-term indwelling catheter, urethral foreign objects, etc., put pressure on and damage the urethra, leading to local congestion, ischemia, and hypoxia, which reduces the resistance of the urethral mucosa and makes it easy to get infected.

Research shows that the incidence of urinary tract infection in people with obstructed urine flow is 12 times higher than that in normal people. Because the bladder is overfilled for a long time, the bladder detrusor muscle will relax and the muscle tone will decrease, causing urine retention, which will then develop into filling-related urinary incontinence.

In addition, patients with prostate hypertrophy or prostatitis should be reminded that since their ureters are narrow, urination is more difficult than for normal people. If they hold back the urge to urinate, it can easily cause urinary retention. In addition, holding urine for a long time will put the prostate under long-term pressure, directly leading to chronic congestion, congestion, and accumulation of local metabolic products, all of which can easily aggravate or cause prostatitis.

Through the above introduction, we can understand that long-term holding urine can cause urethritis. Many male friends are not so familiar with the disease of urethritis, and the incidence of urethritis is relatively high and the harm is also very large. Therefore, once urethritis occurs, you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.