When summer comes, people drink more water and urinate more. This is a very normal thing, but some people are worried about [urinating more because the kidney is not good]. For this statement, it is necessary to talk about this [urination] matter with everyone today.
Is urine too much kidney bad?
Of course not. Urine volume is [fickle], as mentioned at the beginning, for example, if the weather is hot and sweaty, urine will naturally decrease. If you drink too much water, your urine will increase. Moreover, the more manifestation of [kidney failure] is that you urinate less. Of course, if you urinate too much to the point of [frequent urination], you should be careful whether you are ill.
Let’s talk about the frequency of urination.
Is what urinating frequently?
Under normal circumstances, urination is 4 ~ 5 times during the day and 0 ~ 1 time at night. The number of urination increases, usually more than 6 times during the day, more than 2 times at night, or more than 8 times in 24 hours, which is the frequency of urination.
How is frequent urination caused?
Generally speaking, frequent urination rarely appears alone, always accompanied by some symptoms: such as urgent urination, painful urination, endless urination, interruption of urination, etc. For a healthy adult male, frequent urination is the most common reason for two: one is urinary tract infection, and another is prostatic hyperplasia. Next, let’s talk about it.
1. Urinary tract infection
Common symptoms are mainly frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, hematuria, lumbago, lumbar distension, etc. For different types of urinary tract infection, the symptoms are different. For example, patients with acute pyelonephritis usually have obvious symptoms of urgent urination, frequent urination and painful urination, accompanied by chills, high fever and low back pain. For example, some patients with prostatitis may be accompanied by pain and discomfort in perineum in addition to frequent urination, which may also affect the performance of sexual life and even affect the quality of semen leading to infertility.
2. Prostatic hyperplasia
One of the most common diseases affecting male urination function. For men aged 40-50, the incidence rate is about 14%. For men over 60, Nearly half of the people will be troubled by it. Generally, the earliest symptom is waiting to urinate. That is to say, when urinating, it cannot be discharged immediately and carefree, and it needs to wait for several seconds or even several minutes to discharge. The frequent urination is more common at the beginning with the increase of nocturnal urination, and then the number of urinations during the day also increases. Sometimes, even dysuria occurs and needs to be treated in an emergency department.
How should frequent urination be treated?
The frequency of urination caused by different reasons and the treatment methods are also different.
1. Urinary tract infection
Antibacterial drug therapy is the main treatment method for urinary tract infection. For mild urinary tract infection, oral antibiotics can solve the problem in a few days. In more moderate cases, intravenous drip may be required. In some serious cases, the course of treatment is even calculated on a monthly basis. In addition, the treatment of urinary tract infection also includes symptomatic treatment and lifestyle adjustment.
2. Prostatic hyperplasia
Usually, the diagnosis and treatment plan is formulated according to the degree of illness. If the symptoms of frequent urination and waiting for urination are mild and do not affect life and sleep, no special treatment is needed, and the method of observation and waiting can be temporarily adopted. If symptoms of dysuria occur, drugs should be considered to help. If seriously affect the quality of life of prostatic hyperplasia patients, should consider surgical treatment. Of course, the actual causes of frequent micturition are far more than the above two points, bladder stones, cystitis, psychological and behavioral abnormalities may cause frequent micturition symptoms. Therefore, once the symptoms of frequent micturition occur, you must ask the doctor as soon as possible.