We have all experienced one thing in our lives, and that is holding in our urine. Holding in urine once or twice at critical moments is basically not a big problem, but if you develop the habit of holding in urine, it will be bad for your health in the long run. Holding in your urine frequently can cause many harms and affect your health. Do you know what the dangers of holding in your urine are?
Urinary tract infection
Urine is a human metabolite, and urination is a normal detoxification phenomenon. If you do not urinate in time, it will break the balance of the body. Regularly holding in urine can easily lead to urinary tract infection, because there are more bacteria in the urine. As the time of holding in urine increases, bacteria will breed in large numbers. The function of the bladder is only to temporarily store urine. Holding in urine for a long time will lead to the destruction of the bladder mucosa. The resistance is reduced, allowing bacteria to take advantage of it, and urinary tract infections will come to your door.
Impaired bladder function
The bladder is a container. Holding in urine for a long time will cause the bladder wall to expand and become thinner. In case of impact, the bladder wall is prone to rupture, causing a large amount of urine to enter the abdominal cavity, causing abdominal infection and even life-threatening. In addition, there are a large number of nerves in the bladder that control contraction function. If you often hold in your urine, it can cause the tension of the bladder detrusor to decrease, damage the bladder function, and lead to difficulty in urination.
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Holding urine for a long time will not only affect the urinary system, but also lead to the emergence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Holding urine for a long time can make people nervous and induce increased blood pressure. Especially patients with high blood pressure are more likely to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Uremia
Uremia is a series of syndromes that occur when various kidney diseases develop to the end stage. At this stage, the patient's kidney function is severely reduced, and kidney damage is irreversible. If you hold back urine for a long time, the bladder will always be under high pressure. Urine and bacteria may flow back to the kidneys, causing hydronephrosis , affecting kidney function. Lead to renal pelvis infection and even uremia .
Gynecological diseases
Holding in urine for a long time will affect the health of the reproductive system. Women who often hold in urine will tilt the uterus backward, hinder the flow of menstrual blood, and cause dysmenorrhea symptoms. If the compressed uterine body squeezes the nerve plexus in front of the sacrum, it can cause pain in the lumbosacral region. Pregnant women with symptoms of frequent urination should not hold back urine, otherwise it will affect the fetus.
Prostatitis
Holding in urine is one of the causes of prostatitis. In a low temperature environment, the excitability of the sympathetic nerves in the prostate will be significantly enhanced, causing the prostate glands to shrink, causing chronic congestion, resulting in increased pressure in the urethra, and changes in urethra conditions will aggravate the prostate. The accumulation of fluid can lead to the onset of prostate disease, causing patients to experience symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, dysuria, polyuria at night, and perineal and testicular pain. Therefore, frequent urination can lead to prostate congestion and edema, prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis, etc. Retrograde infection can lead to vas deferens and epididymitis.
The behavior of holding in urine in daily life is very harmful and needs to be paid attention to. Good urinary habits should be developed in daily life and the urine should be excreted in time when there is a need to urinate.
