1, Urination and health status
Urine is a barometer of health.
Urine discharges garbage, and at the same time, it is also a "barometer" of health.
Normal urine has three indicators:
Urine color: light yellow and bright, without precipitation and turbidity. But if you drink a lot of water today, urine may be as colorless as boiled water; When drinking less water and sweating more, urine may turn yellow like beer, which is normal.
Number of urination: no more than 8 times a day. Seven times during the day and 1 time at night, which is the best ratio. But it will also vary with the amount of water one drinks. But don't urinate more than twice at night.
Urine volume: the normal daily urine volume is 1500ml. However, due to the different amount of drinking water, the amount of urine will be different, as long as it is within the range of 400-3000 ml.
This is what men should do when they urinate.
It is best to stand: the male urethra is S-shaped. When standing, urine can be naturally excreted by gravity. If you urinate sitting down, the urethra will become barbed. After being compressed, it will cause pelvic congestion, and urine is relatively difficult to discharge. And after a long time, inflammation may occur in the bladder and urethra. Squatting to urinate will change the urethral pressure, urine may flow back to the bladder, and it is easy to induce inflammation.
Don't sit down immediately after urinating: Jun Guo, chief physician of andrology department of Xiyuan Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out that if a man sits down immediately after urinating, it will cause residual urine to flow backwards, giving bacteria in the urethra an opportunity and easily inducing prostatitis.
Squeeze perineum after urinating: After urinating, you can squeeze perineum between scrotum and anus with your fingers, which is helpful to discharge the residual urine in the bladder and is also beneficial to the treatment of chronic prostatitis.
Don't hold your urine: the most direct harm of holding your urine is that it will give bacteria an opportunity. Under normal circumstances, there are bacteria in the lower urethra, which will be washed away when urinating. Frequent urination will weaken the scouring effect of urine, lead to the increase of bacteria, and retrograde to the posterior urethra, bladder and even reproductive organs, thus causing various problems, such as retrograde urinary tract infection. So once you want to pee, you must go to the toilet in time.
2. Protect kidney health
Drink water in moderation without urinating;
Urine stays in the bladder, just as bacteria can easily breed after the sewer is blocked, and bacteria can infect the kidney through the ureter.
Don't overeat:
Eat too much protein and salt. Will increase the burden on the kidneys. In addition, sports drinks contain extra electrolytes and salts, so people with kidney disease should be careful with these drinks.
Regular inspection:
It is best to check urine and blood creatinine and urea nitrogen once every six months. After a woman is pregnant, the burden on her kidneys will increase. Renal function should be monitored. In order to avoid uremia caused by toxemia of pregnancy.
Don't take medicine indiscriminately;
Many painkillers, cold medicines and Chinese herbal medicines on the market are nephrotoxic. Don't eat without a doctor's prescription. You should also know the side effects of antibiotics and painkillers prescribed by doctors.
Treat a cold:
If the cold goes away and comes back, or after the cold, you have high blood pressure, edema and bubbles in your urine. It's best to find a nephrologist for screening.
Beware of recurrent tonsillitis;
When the throat or tonsil is infected by streptococcus, it must be cured, otherwise it will easily lead to nephritis.
Drink water in moderation without urinating;
Urine stays in the bladder, just as bacteria can easily breed after the sewer is blocked, and bacteria can infect the kidney through the ureter.
Control diabetes and hypertension:
If the blood pressure is not well controlled, diabetes will cause arteriosclerosis for too long, and the kidney is composed of millions of microvascular balls. If blood sugar and blood pressure are not well controlled, the kidneys will deteriorate quickly.
Do not drink well water or river water with unknown composition;
In order to avoid the high content of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and chromium, which will damage the kidney.
Urinary calculi should be treated:
It is not that stones are painless, especially ureteral stones, which can easily cause hydronephrosis. Over time, the kidneys will be completely damaged unconsciously.
To protect the kidney, we must start with changing bad diet and living habits.
● Metabolic wastes that don't like drinking water are mainly treated by the liver and kidneys. The most important thing for the kidney is to adjust the balance of water and electrolyte in the human body, and the waste produced by metabolic physiological activities is discharged into urine side by side. However, when performing these functions, it needs enough water to assist.
Solution: Develop the habit of drinking plenty of water, which can dilute urine and make it excreted quickly. It can not only prevent stones, but also help dilute urine when eating too much salt, thus protecting the kidneys.
● Love to drink beer If you already have kidney disease and drink a lot of beer without restriction, uric acid deposition will lead to renal tubular obstruction and renal failure.
Solution: If there is a problem with the kidney during the blood test, I am afraid that the renal function has been seriously damaged at this time. Instead of waiting for a blood test to understand the kidney, it is better to have a urine test regularly, because urine test is the easiest and quickest way to understand the kidney.
● Improper consumption of vegetables and fruits is good for health, which is the general idea. However, for people with chronic renal insufficiency, vegetables and fruits, which are usually considered to be helpful to naturally lower blood pressure, contain high potassium content, and long-term consumption will damage their renal function.
Solution: If you have chronic renal insufficiency, you should pay attention to eating fruits and vegetables properly so as not to affect your kidneys. Don't drink too strong fruit and vegetable juice, hot pot soup and vegetable soup, and have a light diet.
● Replacing boiled water with drinks Most people don't like the blandness of boiled water. In contrast, carbonated drinks such as soda and cola or drinks such as coffee naturally become the best substitute for boiled water. However, the caffeine contained in these drinks often leads to an increase in blood pressure, which is one of the important factors that damage the kidney.
Solution: Try to avoid drinking too many drinks, use boiled water instead, and insist on drinking 8 glasses of water every day to promote the timely discharge of toxins in the body.
● Eat too much meat. The American Food Association once suggested that the daily intake of protein per kilogram of human body weight is 0.8 grams, which means that a person weighing 50 kilograms can only eat 40 grams of protein every day, so he can't eat more than 300 grams of meat a day, so as not to cause damage to the kidneys.
Solution: The intake of meat and bean products per meal should be controlled at the palm size of about 0.5 cm thick. If there are people with chronic nephritis, this amount will be reduced again.
● Eating too much salt is an important culprit to increase the burden on the kidneys. 95% of the salt in the diet is metabolized by the kidneys. If you eat too much salt, the burden on your kidneys will increase. In addition, sodium in salt will make it difficult for the human body to excrete water, further increasing the burden on the kidneys, resulting in renal insufficiency.
Solution: Scientific daily salt intake should be controlled within 6 grams, of which 3 grams can be obtained directly from daily food. Therefore, when food is seasoned, it should be kept within 3 ~ 5g. It is worth noting that there is a lot of salt in instant noodles, so people who often eat less are the best.
● Eating drugs and food of unknown origin.
Acute renal failure caused by eating strange foods such as snake gall or grass carp gall is not uncommon, and many people blindly take traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen yang. In fact, many traditional Chinese medicines contain aristolochic acid and other nephrotoxic components, which will not only cause great harm to the kidneys, but also cause harm to the whole body.
Solution: Although fish gall or snake gall is often claimed to have the efficacy of strengthening yang, clearing away heat and toxic materials or treating acne, even fish gall or snake gall used in traditional Chinese medicine must undergo special treatment to remove its toxicity. Don't take it blindly.