What are the dangers of women holding urine frequently?

Because of some unavoidable factors, or because of their own laziness, some women often hold their urine. For example, some women drink a lot of water before going to bed at night, but when they want to urinate in the middle of the night, they don’t get up to urinate, but choose to hold their urine. So will women often hold their urine and cause some harm? Please see the editor’s answer to the harm of women often holding their urine!

People who hold their urine often want to hold it in, but are also afraid that the urine will be discharged involuntarily and wet their bed or clothes. This puts a heavy mental burden on them, which can eventually lead to psychogenic enuresis. When they hear the sound of water or see a toilet, they can't wait to discharge urine.

If you hold your urine for a long time, the bladder muscles will gradually become loose and weak, and the contraction force will weaken, which will then lead to phenomena such as difficulty in urination and slow urination.

Elderly people hold their urine because the bladder neck and posterior urethra are often in a state of congestion and edema. If men have prostate hyperplasia or women have bladder neck hyperplasia, it will induce urinary retention. In this way, they cannot urinate even if they want to.

The above are just general harms. There is a more serious harm: holding urine for a long time will cause the urine in the bladder and (or) the bacteria in the urine to flow back to the renal pelvis, causing reflux nephropathy and (or) pyelonephritis. Over time, it will lead to damage to the parenchymal structure of the kidney and even renal failure. This situation is especially common in children.

Holding urine for a long time is not good for health and can cause urinary system diseases. People have all had the experience of holding urine. Some are because they are too busy at work and cannot put it down, and some are because they want to play cards or chess and do not want to leave the "battlefield". However, not being able to urinate in time when you feel the urge to urinate is very bad for your health. As the saying goes, "running water does not stagnate." Normal urination can not only excrete metabolic products in the body, but also has a self-cleaning effect on the urinary system. When you hold your urine, the bladder swells, the blood vessels in the bladder wall are compressed, the bladder mucosa becomes ischemic, and the resistance is reduced. Bacteria will take advantage of the situation and grow and multiply rapidly, which can not only easily cause urinary system diseases such as cystitis and urethritis, but in severe cases it can also affect kidney function.

Holding urine can also cause physical and psychological tension, leading to higher blood pressure in patients with hypertension, arrhythmias and even angina pectoris in patients with coronary heart disease, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for the elderly who already have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Prostate enlargement is a common disease among the elderly. If you hold your urine for a long time, the already enlarged prostate will suffer even more.

In addition, holding urine will prevent toxic substances in the urine from being excreted from the body in time, prolonging the effect of carcinogens in the urine on the bladder, which can easily induce the occurrence of bladder cancer. According to a research report by American scientists, people who have the habit of holding their urine are 3 to 5 times more likely to develop bladder cancer than the average person. Therefore, holding urine is a very bad habit, and the elderly should develop the habit of urinating at regular times.

Yes, it is harmful for women to hold urine frequently. In fact, it is not just for women. If some men hold urine frequently, it will also be harmful. Therefore, in daily life, it is best not to hold urine frequently. It is best to pay attention to going to the toilet in time to relieve urine if urine is produced.