Contents:
- Medical Video: Kidney & Bladder Health : How to Treat Frequent Urination
- Is it normal to urinate often at night?
- Health conditions that cause frequent urination at night
- 1. Sleep apnea
- 2. Diabetes
- 3. Congestive heart failure
- 4. Nervous disorders
- 5. Take certain drugs
Medical Video: Kidney & Bladder Health : How to Treat Frequent Urination
Have you ever woken up at night because you want to urinate? This is very natural. Moreover, when you drink too much water or the weather is too cold at night, it causes you to urinate more often than usual. However, if you urinate too often at night, chances are you have nocturia.
Is it normal to urinate often at night?
Frequent urination at night is not serious if the cause is because you drink too much before going to bed, or if you are already elderly. Increasing age turns out to have been linked to reduced bladder capacity, and the tendency of the bladder muscles to become overactive.
Moreover, as you get older, you will be more likely to have other health problems that make you need to urinate at night. In addition, gender factors also play a role. In men, as they age they will experience an enlarged prostate. Or, in women, when they have experienced menopause, the hormone estrogen produced is also reduced. Both of these, in women or men will result in frequent urination at night.
But what if you have taken a reasonable drink before going to bed, and you are also still young, but you still often wake up to urinate at night? If this is the case, there may be some health conditions that are the cause.
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Health conditions that cause frequent urination at night
Here are some health conditions that often make the sufferer wake up to urinate at night.
1. Sleep apnea
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that can make a person stop breathing for a few seconds while sleeping. Based on a study, 50% of people who experience sleep apnea will urinate more often in the middle of the night. This happens because when you experience sleep apnea, you will try to find a way to breathe freely while sleeping. As a result, the heart muscle stretches and makes the hormone ANH (atrial natriuretic peptide) increase urine production.
2. Diabetes
Increased glucose levels in the kidney can make the more fluid contained in the urine. This can lead to an increase in urine formation and interfere with nighttime urination. In addition, having high blood glucose levels can also cause your body to expel excess glucose through urine. In this case, more sugar appears in the urine and simulates the extra volume of urine that will be produced.
If you consistently have high blood glucose levels, you can increase the risk of urinary tract infections which can also increase the need to urinate throughout the night.
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3. Congestive heart failure
During the day, fluid builds up in the legs due to gravity and the inability of the heart to pump normally. When we lie down at night, this liquid, without the influence of gravity, will re-enter the bloodstream and cause increased urine production.
All you need to know, congestive heart failure or Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a heart failure in pumping the blood supply needed by the body. This happens because of abnormalities in the heart muscles so that they cannot work normally.
4. Nervous disorders
Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis are usually accompanied by dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system (unconscious nervous system). This can result in bladder dysfunction and make you wake up at night to urinate.
5. Take certain drugs
The use of drugs at night can actually make you urinate at night. This can happen because the drugs you consume make fluid buildup in the kidneys. Consult your doctor if the medication you are taking makes you urinate frequently at night. Or, you can change the time for taking the drug earlier, like in the morning.
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