Frequent urination, a sign of dangerous disease?

VIVA – Urinating is a normal activity for humans, especially in the morning or when drinking too much water. Urinating itself is an activity to remove fluids, toxins and metabolic waste substances in the body.

However, you must be vigilant if these conditions occur frequently. There are often all sorts of causes urination, ranging from medical conditions or other things. Like what? The following is a review from the Urologist, dr. Hani A. Hendarto, Sp.U, in the program Healthy Living, TvOne.

Frequent urination is a sign of diabetes

Frequent urination can be one of the symptoms of diabetes. Frequent urination in addition to other symptoms of eating and drinking a lot. This is because in diabetic people, high sugar automatically high sugar levels are filtered by the kidneys out of the body so they often urinate.

However, Hani explained that frequent urination is not necessarily all diabetes. There is also because of physiology, such as in pregnancy, generally in the 1st and 3rd trimesters, frequent urination because there is pressure on the uterus to the bladder, but it can also be a symptom. disease others such as infections, prostate, urinary tract infections, kidney stones or others.

Frequent urination is a sign of urinary tract infection?

He explained that frequent urination can be a sign of urinary tract infection, especially when the infection is in the bladder.

“The urinary tract consists of the kidneys, the renal tract to the bladder. If there is an infection in the bladder, irritation of the urinary wall will automatically occur so that there is only a little fluid in the kidneys to urinate,” he said.

Frequent urination symptoms of impaired kidney function?

Hani explained, kidney disorders where there is a kidney infection or stones in the kidney due to stones causing infection. The infection will cause automatic inflammation. People will urinate more often, their urine will bleed.

“Infection can be in the kidneys because of a blockage of the stones, if the infection in the kidney is accompanied by back pain. It can also be in the bladder, the symptoms are burning, pain under the stomach,” he said.

It could be cold air

Frequent urination can also be detected because someone is in the cold. According to Hani, normal human body fluids are excreted through sweat and urine.

“In cold air, we automatically don’t sweat the liquid out through the urine,” he said.

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