Frequent urination - a sign of illness or fad of the body?

How often should a person go to the toilet "for a small need"? The question is absolutely incorrect! Not only that in such an intimate question a person does not owe anything to anyone, so also the frequency of urination is a very individual thing. One does it more often, another - less often. And in general, day to day is not necessary; Today they ate a watermelon - and here it is, constant running around to the bathroom, and yesterday ... And yesterday, and do not remember already.

Actually, if a person does not think how much he has frequent urination, this in itself already means that he has everything in order with this case. After all, you notice only what goes beyond the usual. In general, anyone can accurately describe the number of their trips to the toilet per day? In addition, there is no standard. The number of daily urination depends on a number of factors, including the amount of fluid consumed by a person, and the tone of the muscle tissue that forms the walls of the bladder, and the air temperature, and even the banal habit. Therefore, the norm and anomaly are determined by physicians with a high degree of conventionality, and they speak of pathology in case an adult has urge to urinate more than 15 times a day. And then, if this is not an isolated phenomenon, caused, say, by a visit to a beer festival, but a steady trend.

In view of all these individual characteristics and assumptions, abnormally frequent urination for a particular person is detected with the help of additional symptoms. This may be the regularity and strength of the urge, pain, the amount of urine released. The combination of symptoms and allows you to determine whether there is really cause for concern.

For example, frequent urination in boys, occurring in small portions, coupled with night incontinence after four years, indicates the development of enuresis (in girls this disease is much less common). But if the "small need" constantly pester an adult man, the probability of an infectious disease of the genitourinary system, prostatitis or prostate adenoma is high . Frequent urination worries almost all pregnant women - this, by the way, can be one of the first early signs, and also infects the weaker sex in menopause.

To force a person to "run" into the toilet can be the so-called "bear illness", which comes from strong excitement. But it quickly passes. But if frequent urination is accompanied by an increase in the volume of excreted urine, this is an occasion to suspect chronic kidney failure, and even diabetes. With these diseases, the human body can not concentrate urine in the kidneys, loses a lot of fluid, and the patient is constantly thirsty.

In contrast, mild urination in men with frequent, especially nocturnal, urge, may indicate an increase in the prostate gland or its tumor.

Stones in the bladder prevent its complete emptying, and the toilet has to walk more often. The same happens with the presence of kidney stones.

Treatment of a disorder of urination, caused by any of the aforementioned diseases, occurs along with the treatment of the disease itself. No medical intervention is required if "small need" has become a big problem due to excessive use of liquids, especially beer, coffee or tea. Also, treatment is not necessary if frequent urination is caused by hypothermia or nervous shock. If the diuretic effect has given the use of some medications, you can consult with a doctor about this.

It also happens that frequent urination is associated with the weak musculature of the walls of the bladder, when even a small accumulation of fluid already gives signals of the need to ease. In this case, a consultation of a urologist is needed, which can prescribe medications or suggest special exercises.