Frequent Urination: Causes and Treatments

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Frequent Urination Causes and Treatments

• Causes of Frequent Urination
• Diagnosing the Cause of Frequent Urination
• Treatment for Frequent Urination

Intro- Gotta go all the time? The technical name
for your problem is frequent urination. In most
people the bladder is able to store urine until
it is convenient to go to the toilet, typically
four to eight times a day. Needing to go more
than eight times a day or waking up in the night
to go to the bathroom could mean you're drinking
too much and/or too close to bedtime. Or it could
signal a health problem.
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Causes of Frequent Urination

• Diabetes

• Frequent urination can be a symptom of many
  different problems. When frequent urination is
  accompanied by fever, an urgent need to urinate,
  and pain or discomfort in the abdomen, you may
  have a urinary tract infection. Other possible
  causes of frequent urination

• Frequent urination with an abnormally large
  amount of urine is often an early symptom of both
  type 1 and type 2 diabetes as the body tries to
  rid itself of unused glucose through the urine.

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• Prostate problems-

• Pregnancy-

• An enlarged prostate can press against the
  urethra (the tube that carries urine out the
  body) and block the flow of urine. This causes
  the bladder wall to become irritable. The bladder
  begins to contract even when it contains small
  amounts of urine, causing more frequent urination.

• From the early weeks of pregnancy the growing
  uterus places pressure on the bladder, causing
  frequent urination.

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• Interstitial cystitis-

• Diuretic use-

• This condition of unknown cause is characterized
  by pain in the bladder and pelvic region. Often,
  symptoms include an urgent.

• Diuretic use. These medications that are used to
  treat high blood pressure or fluid buildup work
  in the kidney and flush excess fluid from the
  body, causing frequent urination.

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Urinalysis

• The microscopic examination of urine that also
  involves a number of tests to detect and measure
  various compounds that pass through the urine.

• A test that measures the pressure inside of the
  bladder to see how well the bladder is working
  cystometry is done to determine if a muscle or
  nerve problem may be causing problems with how
  well the bladder holds or releases urine.

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Treatment for Frequent Urination

• Bladder retraining

• Diet modification

• This involves increasing the intervals between
  using the bathroom over the course of about 12
  weeks. This helps retrain your bladder to hold
  urine longer and to urinate less frequently.

• You should avoid any food that appears to
  irritate your bladder or acts as a diuretic.
  These may include caffeine, alcohol, carbonated
  drinks, tomato-based products, chocolate,
  artificial sweeteners, and spicy foods. It's also
  important to eat high-fiber foods, because
  constipation may worsen the symptoms of
  overactive bladder syndrome.

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• Kegel exercises.

• Monitoring fluid intake.

• You should drink enough to prevent constipation
  and over-concentration of urine, but you should
  avoid drinking just before bedtime, which can
  lead to nighttime urination.

• These exercises help strengthen the muscles
  around the bladder and urethra to improve bladder
  control and reduce urinary urgency and frequency.
  Exercising pelvic muscles for five minutes three
  times a day can make a difference in bladder
  control.

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