What does post-urinary residual mean

The food we eat every day will produce a certain amount of excrement after being consumed in the body for a certain period of time. Normal excretion is an important guarantee for our health. In terms of excretion problems, some people may have problems with residual urine. What we often call residual urine means that urination is not complete. It feels like you have finished urinating, but there is still urine in the body. So, is this statement correct? What does post-urinary residual mean in medicine?

Residual urine after urination is a clinical symptom of disease. Common diseases include prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, urethritis, acute cystitis, tuberculous cystitis, pyelonephritis, vulvitis, urinary tract stones and other urological diseases. It feels like normal urination after urination. When you start to urinate, it flows out little by little. You feel like you want to urinate, but you can't urinate smoothly. Everyone experiences a few drops of water after urinating, just like a few drops of water drip after turning off the faucet. The causes of post-urinary residual drip are complicated. Patients should go to a regular hospital in time to check the cause and receive symptomatic treatment. Remember not to take medicine blindly. To prevent prostate hypertrophy, you should start paying attention to it from young adulthood. The key is to have a moderate sex life, neither indulging nor abstaining from sex.

Experts point out that common diseases that cause urine dripping include prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, urethritis, acute cystitis, tuberculous cystitis, pyelonephritis, vulvitis, urinary tract stones and other urological diseases. The causes of urine dripping are complex. Patients should go to a regular hospital in time to check the cause and receive symptomatic treatment. Remember not to take medicine blindly.

(1) Increased urine volume: Under physiological conditions, such as drinking a lot of water, the urine volume will increase due to the increase in water intake, and the number of urination will also increase, resulting in frequent urination. Under pathological conditions, such as some patients with diabetes and diabetes insipidus who drink a lot of water, have a large urine volume and urinate frequently. The clinical symptoms of patients with prostatitis and prostatic hyperplasia are usually increased urine volume, dripping urine, frequent urination, urgency, pain, and even blood in the urine.

(2) Inflammatory stimulation: Acute cystitis, tuberculous cystitis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, vulvitis, etc. can all cause frequent urination. Under the stimulation of inflammation, frequent urination, urgency, dripping, and pain may occur at the same time, which is called urinary tract irritation sign.

(3) Non-inflammatory irritation: such as urinary tract stones, foreign bodies, etc., may cause symptoms of frequent urination, urgency, and dribbling of urine.

(4) Reduced bladder capacity: Common causes of frequent urination, urgency, and dribbling of urine include space-occupying lesions in the bladder, tuberculous bladder contracture, or large bladder stones.

(5) Psychoneural urinary frequency. This symptom of frequent urination, urgency and dribbling requires further detailed examination in the hospital to identify the cause and carry out targeted and effective treatment. Generally speaking, frequent urination is caused by inflammation and should be taken seriously. Actively go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment, otherwise it is easy to spread infection and become difficult to treat.

Inspection found

(1) All patients were elderly men, generally over 50 years old.

(2) During physical examination, an enlarged bladder may be found in the lower abdomen.

(3) During rectal examination, the prostate can be felt to be enlarged and raised, with the central groove disappearing or widening on both sides. An enlarged bladder can often be felt at the upper edge of the enlarged gland.

(4) Signs of complications such as hernia, hemorrhoids, and rectal prolapse may also be detected.