"Holding urine for a while, bladder crematorium".
In our previous article, we mentioned that urinary holding is not directly related to bladder cancer (click on the blue word to review how often holding urine can lead to bladder cancer?). Only when this signal appears in the urine should be vigilant! ）。
However, hold back the urine
However, it may cause cystitis
The body's normal urine cycle excretes urine before bacteria have begun to multiply.
However, if you hold urine for a long time and let the urine store in the bladder for too long, it is equivalent to giving the bacteria a long enough time to reproduce, which may cause inflammation.
At the same time, long-term urination may also destroy the bladder mucosa and submucosal blood transport, affect the structure of the bladder wall, and reduce the ability of the bladder mucosa to resist bacterial aggression.
The body's urinary structure includes the urethral sphincter and the bladder detrusor muscle, holding urine will make the urethral sphincter tighten, long-term holding of urine may cause this muscle to become stronger and stronger, affecting the function of the bladder, and may also inhibit the contraction of the bladder in the later stage, resulting in urine not coming out, or forming residual urine.
Therefore, not only cystitis, but also bladder dysfunction, urinary dysfunction, etc., long-term habitual urination may be the cause.
The main symptom of cystitis
Urinary frequency, urgency, dysuria
In a broad sense, different pathogens invade the bladder, resulting in inflammation, that is, cystitis, mainly frequent urination, urgency, pain and other symptoms, and some patients may also have symptoms of blood in the urine.
Depending on the rate of onset, cystitis can be divided into acute cystitis, subacute cystitis, and chronic cystitis.
Depending on the causative factors, cystitis can also be divided into bacterial cystitis and nonbacterial cystitis (such as interstitial cystitis), of which bacterial cystitis is more common in the clinic.
Women are more susceptible to cystitis
In general, the probability of cystitis in women is higher than that in men, because the urethra of women is shorter than that of men, the male urethra is about 25cm, while the female urethra is only about 5cm, and pathogens such as bacteria are more likely to invade the bladder through retrograde urethra.
When women enter menopause, hormone levels decline, the nourishing effect of estrogen on the urethral mucosa decreases, and women's ability to resist infection also decreases, so menopausal or menopausal women are also more likely to develop cystitis.
Men usually rarely develop simple cystitis, and often coexist with other diseases, such as prostatitis and bladder stones.
Some older men may have unclean urine, residual urine, and cystitis.
Cystitis should pay attention to timely and standardized treatment
Bacterial cystitis is still relatively easy to cure.
Some young people with milder diseases can even heal themselves by their own resistance. Therefore, we can pay attention to enhancing our own resistance, and on this basis, we can drink as much water as possible and urinate more to promote the excretion of bacteria from the body.
However, in general, it is not advocated for hard resistance, if there are obvious symptoms of infection, especially people with serious diseases and urination such as knife cutting, they should go to the hospital for treatment in time.
The treatment of bacterial infections is mainly based on the use of antibacterial drugs, such as ofloxacin, levofloxacin, cefradin, fosfomycin, etc., generally taken for 3-5 days, the symptoms can disappear.
When taking the drug, it should be noted that after the symptoms disappear, you should continue to take it for 3-5 days in order to truly achieve the purpose of killing bacteria.
For interstitial cystitis, treatment is more complicated.
Antimicrobial therapy is often ineffective, requiring the use of some antihistamines, as well as some drugs that can enhance the defense of the urethra and urothelial, and can also be infused with sodium hyaluronate, heparin, water, etc. in the bladder for treatment.
If these conservative treatments are ineffective, surgery, such as the installation of a bladder pacemaker or botulinum toxin injection into the bladder wall, is required.
In short, if you find symptoms of cystitis such as urinary frequency, urgency, and pain of urination, you must seek medical treatment in time and standardize treatment!
References: Medical Microvision official website - Zhou Liqun Chief Physician "Cystitis", Liao Limin Chief Physician "Interstitial Cystitis"