Contents:
- Medical Video: Kidney & Bladder Health : How to Improve Kidney Function
- 1. Drink enough water
- 2. Urinate thoroughly
- 3. Stop smoking
- 4. Perform exercises for the pelvic muscles
- 5. urinate after having sex
- 6. Limit caffeinated and alcoholic drinks
- 7. Regular urination for the health of your bladder
Medical Video: Kidney & Bladder Health : How to Improve Kidney Function
Do you know that there are no important organs to maintain health other than the heart, kidneys and lungs? Yes, another organ that you have to treat is the bladder. Every day you can urinate, it's nothing but the work of several organs including the bladder that holds urine (urine) before it is released. Without the bladder, urine cannot be accommodated. If you ignore bladder health, you run the risk of getting an infection or even cancer.
The bladder is a hollow organ in the human excretion system. The task is to hold fluids that have been filtered by the kidneys and will be released as urine. As we get older, the bladder condition will also change, its function decreases.
Therefore, maintaining bladder health must be done early. Indeed, not everything can be controlled to maintain bladder health. However, you still have the opportunity to keep it simple with things that are often forgotten.
1. Drink enough water
Drink at least 8 glasses of water per day. Water is the best liquid for bladder health. At least half of your daily fluid intake must come from water.
However, this condition may be different for certain medical conditions. For example, people who experience kidney failure should actually limit their daily fluid intake with a special dose from a doctor.
2. Urinate thoroughly
One way to reduce the risk of bladder infection is to get rid of urine out completely. This was explained by Dr. Gopal Badlani, a bladder specialist from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, United States.
Reported from the Everyday Health page, if you tighten the pelvic muscles to stop urinating too quickly, the urine that is still on the way out but not until the tip will return to your bladder. This can bring bacteria into the human urinary system.
When urinating, make sure the urine is out and not left anymore. Take it easy, everyone should be able to feel that there is still urine or urine that can be removed.
So avoid urinating in a hurry because it usually cannot completely empty your bladder.
3. Stop smoking
Every year, more than 50,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer. One of the main risk factors in this cancer case is tobacco use.
Smokers have a 2-3 times higher risk of bladder cancer than non-smokers.
If you still smoke or use other types of tobacco, it is very important to stop smoking to maintain the health of your bladder and your overall health.
4. Perform exercises for the pelvic muscles
Perform pelvic floor muscle exercises, also known as Kegel exercises regularly to maintain bladder health. This exercise can help strengthen the muscles that control the bladder to work better and not easily leak when you sneeze, cough, lift something, laugh, or when you suddenly want to urinate.
Weak muscles can make a bladder leak, which is called urinary incontinence.
5. urinate after having sex
After making love, there are many bacteria that fill the area around the genitals. That's why cleaning the genital area is one of the important stages to prevent infection due to bacterial attacks, especially in women.
Urinating after having sex can help water the bacteria out of your urinary system so that it can prevent urinary tract infections (UTI). Urine will help wash out bacteria that also attach much to the urethra (the channel that connects the bladder to the body).
6. Limit caffeinated and alcoholic drinks
Drinks containing caffeine such as coffee, tea, energy drinks, and soft drinks can increase bladder activity and increase the risk of leakage. You can still, why, drink caffeinated drinks. However, don't drink too much.
7. Regular urination for the health of your bladder
You should not urinate too often. Try to urinate at least every 3 to 4 hours even if you don't want to urinate. Holding urine in the bladder for too long can weaken the bladder muscles and make bladder infections more prone to occur.
