Why do I often have the urge to urinate?

Many people are prone to frequent urination and urgency due to illness and other reasons. They need to go to the toilet to urinate from time to time every day, which undoubtedly brings a certain degree of trouble to the patient's work and life. Urinary frequency refers to a symptom rather than a disease. Patients urinate more frequently but do not feel pain. Urinary urgency refers to the patient's inability to wait to urinate after feeling the urge to urinate. There are many reasons for frequent urination and urgency, such as physical weakness, bacterial infection, neurological factors, etc.

1. Causes of frequent urination and urgency

1. Increased urine volume: When urine volume increases, the frequency of urination will also increase accordingly. Under physiological conditions, such as drinking a lot of water, eating watermelon, and drinking beer, due to the increase in water intake, the urine volume increases through the regulation and filtration of the kidneys, and the frequency of urination also increases, resulting in frequent urination. Under pathological conditions, such as some patients with diabetes and diabetes insipidus, they drink a lot of water, urinate a lot, and urinate frequently. But there was no discomfort in urination.

2. Inflammatory stimulation: When there is inflammation in the bladder, the nerve perception threshold is lowered, the urinary center is in an excited state, resulting in frequent urination and reduced urine volume. Therefore, frequent urination is an important symptom of cystitis, especially acute cystitis, which is more obvious in tuberculous cystitis. Other conditions, such as prostatitis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, chronic balanoposthitis in children, vulvitis, etc., may also cause frequent urination. Under the stimulation of inflammation, frequent urination, urgency and pain often occur at the same time, which is called urinary tract irritation syndrome, commonly known as "triuria syndrome".

3. Non-inflammatory irritation: such as urinary stones and foreign bodies, usually with frequent urination as the main manifestation.

4. Reduced bladder capacity: such as bladder space-occupying lesions, compression from the enlarged uterus during pregnancy, tuberculous bladder contracture, or large bladder stones.

5. Psychoneural frequent urination: Frequent urination only occurs during the day or before falling asleep at night, and is often caused by mental tension or occurs in patients with hysteria. This may also be accompanied by urinary urgency and pain.

2. Folk remedies for frequent urination and urgency

1. One pig bladder, 20g each of lotus seeds and water chestnuts, 6g of Panax notoginseng slices or 3g of Panax notoginseng powder, half a piece of tangerine peel, make soup or stew. It can nourish the spleen and strengthen the kidneys, disperse blood stasis and reduce urination.

2. 12 grams of Cuscuta seeds, 6 grams of raspberry, 6 grams each of leek seeds and golden cherry. Decoction in water. This prescription is suitable for frequent urination in the elderly.

3. 2 parts salt and 1 part garlic. Mash them together, wrap them with oil gauze, press them into cakes, heat them and apply them on Zhongji and Guanyuan acupoints. 30 minutes once, twice a day.

4. 60 grams of silkworm cocoons and 15 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla kernel. Grind into fine powder, use the flour to make pills as big as sycamore seeds, take 20 pills before bedtime with boiled water.

5. Take Gallnut (fry until yellow, grind into fine powder), mix it with boiling water to make a paste, apply it to the Shenque point, cover it with gauze and fix it with adhesive tape, apply once a day before going to bed, for 7 consecutive days.

6. Appropriate amounts of fennel and glutinous rice. Add salt to fennel, fry it, grind it into powder, then steam the glutinous rice. Mix the fennel powder with the glutinous rice and eat it once a day.

7. Boil 60 grams of dandelion in water and drink as tea. This prescription is suitable for frequent urination and lower back pain.