Contents:
- Medical Video: Kidney & Bladder Health : How to Treat Frequent Urination
- What causes frequent urination at night?
- 1. Age is not young anymore
- 2. Often drink alcohol and caffeine
- 3. Level of excess salt
- How much salt intake should be reduced to deal with frequent urination at night?
Medical Video: Kidney & Bladder Health : How to Treat Frequent Urination
A congressional Urology Research Society in London stated that seniors (people over 60 years and over) who urinate frequently at night, can reduce the condition by limiting salt intake in daily food.
What causes frequent urination at night?
Most people over the age of 60 often wake up 2-4 times a night to complete their urge to urinate. This condition is commonly referred to as nocturia which is mostly caused by a poor lifestyle. One of the symptoms can be experienced by frequent urination or frequent urination.
Although frequent urination at night is seen as a health condition that is not too problematic, there is a hidden impact behind the condition. For example, lack of sleep due to frequent urination at night will cause stress, fatigue and irritability, when the quality of your night's sleep is disrupted. Some of the causes that trigger urinary frequency in the day, include:
1. Age is not young anymore
Antidiuretic hormones in old age, will gradually decrease. As a result, the bladder muscle becomes weak to hold back the urine which should be able to hold back the urge to urinate at night.
2. Often drink alcohol and caffeine
Alcohol and caffeinated drinks are usually diuretics. If excessive consumption can cause frequent urination at night, which can interfere with the quality of one's sleep.
3. Level of excess salt
Excess salt levels will cause your body to trigger secretions, usually through sweat or urine. Urination or urine, is actually regulated by the water and salt levels in the body. Which is if the two levels are excessive, the body will be released through your urine.
How much salt intake should be reduced to deal with frequent urination at night?
Research from Nagasaki University in Japan, led by Dr. Matsuo Tomohiro, studied and studied salt intake in 321 men and women. They are known to have high salt intake and sleep problems due to excessive urination. Because, Japanese people tend to have more salt intake than other Asian countries salt intake.
Well, the patients studied were given reduced salt intake for 12 weeks, and measured using biochemical calculations.
When the research process took place 223 out of 321 patients were able to reduce their salt intake from 10.7 mg per day to 8.0 mg per day. In this group, the average frequency of urinating at night falls from 2 times per night to just one time last night.
In contrast, the remaining 98 people increased their average salt intake from 9.6 mg a night to 11.0 mg per night. As a result, the need to urinate increased from 2 times per night to 3-4 times per night. The researchers finally stated, urinating during the day will decrease too, if the salt in food decreases.
The more dirt and salt in the body, especially for people who are elderly, will cause continuing health problems. The National Health and Research Council in Australia recommends intake of 2 to 3 grams of salt per day, but most adults have a daily salt intake of around 10 grams. Doing a diet combined with reducing salt can also improve a person's quality of life.
