What causes frequent urination?

Frequent urination is a common disease in daily life. Its occurrence has a huge impact on both adults and children. It often makes people feel particularly troubled and sometimes embarrassed. But what exactly causes frequent urination? In fact, this is related to many factors. The first reason is the increase in urine volume.

1. Common causes

1. Increased urine volume: If you drink a lot of water in your life and cause frequent urination, this is a physiological phenomenon, because the more water the body absorbs, the more it spit out.

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

3. Non-inflammatory irritation: such as urinary stones, foreign bodies, etc.

4. Reduced bladder capacity: such as bladder space-occupying lesions, compression from the enlarged uterus during pregnancy, tuberculous bladder contracture, or large bladder stones.

5. Psychoneural urinary frequency. You need to go to the hospital for further detailed examination to clarify the cause and carry out targeted and effective treatment.

6. We know that the organ most related to urine is the kidney. If the kidneys are not in good condition, you will easily experience symptoms of frequent urination.

2. Other reasons

1. Urethral and seasonal factors: If you have frequent urination but a small amount of urine each time, and you do not feel any pain when urinating or have any other symptoms, you should first consider local factors, such as inflammation of the urethral orifice, excessive foreskin, or pinworms irritating the genitals. In addition, due to seasonal factors, polyuria in winter is a normal phenomenon.

2. Dietary polyuria: If you have frequent urination and a large amount of urine each time, but no other symptoms, you should first pay attention to whether you drink too much water, especially for people who like to drink tea.

3. Neurogenic urinary frequency: The bladder detrusor muscle is underdeveloped and the nerves are not sound, which may lead to daytime spot polyuria, up to 20 to 30 times, but normal urination at night. There is a tendency of recurring episodes, and urine tests are normal. This disease is not caused by inflammation.

4. Urinary tract inflammation: If you have frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination or fever, you should consider urinary tract infection, such as cystitis, pyelonephritis, etc. Pus cells or a large number of white blood cells may be found under the urine microscope. In severe cases, there are symptoms of systemic infection and poisoning, and antibiotic treatment is required.

5. Special diseases: If frequent urination is accompanied by large urine volume, and at the same time there is thirst, polydipsia, polyuria, and weight loss, you should pay attention to check the urine. If the urine contains sugar, you should consider diabetes. If there is no sugar in the urine but the specific gravity is low, you should think of diabetes insipidus. Frequent urination should be treated according to the cause. If it is caused by inflammation, anti-infection should be the main treatment. If it is caused by pinworms, deworming should be given. If the foreskin is too long, surgery can be performed, and if the patient simply drinks too much water, the amount of water intake can be controlled appropriately. In addition, pay attention to local cleanliness and hygiene, and take a bath and change clothes frequently.