Don't rush to wash away after urinating. Pay attention to the color of urine and observe whether the body has an alarm. According to ClevelandClinic, adults urinate about five or six times a day. If you drink 500cc of water during the day and go to the toilet for more than four hours, it is likely to cause urinary tract inflammation. Please don't hold your urine.
The color and taste of urine can also reflect the physical condition. If the urine is yellowish, clear and tasteless, it is normal; Turbidity may be urinary tract infection or stones, producing impurities; The color of oolong tea may be due to medication, biliary obstruction, jaundice or liver problems; Green may be caused by eating a lot of anti-inflammatory drugs; Pay special attention to pink, red and brown. If you haven't eaten red cabbage or blackberry, it is a serious urinary tract problem or tumor.
If the urine has a rancid smell, it may be a bacterial infection, causing urinary tract inflammation; The fragrant fruit flavor is caused by too many ketone bodies in the body, which may be caused by diabetes or excessive hunger; If there are many bubbles in the urine, it may be proteinuria caused by eating too much high-protein food. If the air bubbles persist for a few minutes when urinating all day, it may be inflammation of the kidneys.
Quantity: too much or too little is not good.
On the premise of normal diet and drinking water, the urine volume of normal people every day and night is about 1000~2000ml. When the body is abnormal, it is manifested as an obvious increase or decrease in urine volume every morning and evening, or even no urine. Urine volume staying above 2500ml for a long time is called polyuria. Every morning and evening in the range of 100~400ml, used for oliguria. If the daily urine volume is less than 100ml, it is anuria. If the urine volume exceeds the water intake of the body for a long time, the body loses too much water, leading to dehydration.
Color: Beware of abnormal urine color.
Pale yellow and clear: the urine color of normal people is clear and transparent or pale yellow, and the urine will change with people's daily living habits and internal environment. If the urine turns yellow only once or twice without discomfort, it may be because of insufficient drinking water, excessive sweating and taking some drugs. Don't worry.
Dark yellow as tea: Most patients with bladder cancer will have urine color changes, usually dark yellow at first, and occasionally bloodshot urine will appear with the development of the disease, and then develop into gross hematuria. Urine is often dark yellow, accompanied by urgency, dysuria and obstruction. It is best to go to the hospital for further examination in time.
White turbid liquid: If the urine is always white turbid, the common causes may be chyluria caused by filariasis and pyuria caused by severe purulent urinary tract infection. However, when the symptoms of chronic prostatitis worsen, some young men may also have a small amount of white or transparent mucus at the beginning or end of urination. It is very likely that the inflammatory exudation of prostatic fluid flows out with urine, so further examination should be done to avoid aggravation of the disease.
Soy sauce color: If the urine is soy sauce color, clear and transparent, and there is no obvious turbidity, this situation is usually hemoglobinuria caused by intravascular hemolysis, such as bean diseases and hemolytic transfusion reactions with incompatible blood types. After severe trauma, a large amount of myoglobin in muscle cells enters the blood, which can also occur. Care should be taken to avoid affecting renal function.
Feeling: find the cause and prescribe the right medicine.
Bitter: Eat some kiwi fruit and bitter gourd.
Some Chinese medicine experts suggest that when men have dysuria and urgency, and the symptoms are not too serious, in addition to scientific treatment, they can also eat more kiwifruit, because kiwifruit is rich in vitamin E, which can resist oxidation and has the effect of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production. Mash fresh kiwi fruit, add a cup of warm water (about 250ml), mix well and take it. It has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on dysuria and urgency caused by prostatitis. In addition, you can eat more bitter gourd. But when the symptoms are serious, you need to go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible, so as not to delay the illness.
Unable to urinate: besides checking prostate, check blood sugar.
Many middle-aged and elderly men obviously feel that urination is not as powerful as before, and often feel that urine is not clean and the range of urination is shortened. In addition to prostate diseases, this situation may also be caused by diabetes, because when the peripheral neuropathy caused by diabetes is serious, it may affect the nerve conduction that controls urination or cause repeated inflammation or even stenosis of the urethra, and may also cause dysuria. So besides checking the prostate, we should also check the blood sugar.
These methods can help you "relax"
Squat urination: the elderly use squat urination, which can enhance abdominal pressure and facilitate urination. The elderly have weakened gastrointestinal peristalsis, decreased anal sphincter function and are more prone to constipation. Squat urination can ventilate anus and promote blood circulation. Involuntary anal lifting can also enhance the contraction function of anal sphincter, promote defecation awareness and reduce constipation. Squatting to urinate can also prevent falls, lower brain blood pressure and reduce risks.
? Toe micturition: Men's habitual sedentary behavior will slow down the blood circulation in perineum, lead to chronic congestion and congestion in perineum and prostate, local accumulation of metabolites in prostate, obstruction of glandular ducts, and poor outflow of prostatic fluid, which will lead to or aggravate prostatitis. Tiptoe exercise can make the blood flow of lower limbs unobstructed and urinate more smoothly. The specific method is: put your feet together on the ground, stand on tiptoe hard, and repeat it many times. It's best to do toe-to-toe exercise every hour, and do this toe-to-toe exercise five or six times a day. Persistence all the year round will have a certain kidney-benefiting effect.
Urine once an hour: Studies have shown that the incidence of bladder cancer is related to the retention time of urine in the bladder. Proper increase of urination times and reduction of urine holding time can protect bladder and prostate. The scientific practice is to urinate once an hour.
Do not urinate more than 1 min at a time: Men over 40 years old can judge whether there is a problem with the prostate and whether it can be cleaned within 1 min by calculating their urination time.
Hot sitz bath: hot sitz bath before going to bed, combined with prostate massage, can promote blood circulation and speed up recovery. You can exercise moderately, but you should not ride a bike or sit for a long time. You should get up and exercise every 1~2 hours to relieve the local oppression and congestion of the prostate.
Squeeze and massage perineum after urination: male urethra is long, which is prone to unclean urination, leading to urinary tract infection. There are two methods: after urination, massage with fingers, and squeeze perineum several times behind scrotum and before anus, which can discharge the urine remaining in bladder, which is beneficial to the treatment of prostatitis; Do more levator ani exercises. Long-term persistence can enhance the contractility of perineal muscles and urethral muscles, help excrete urine and reduce urine residue in bladder.
Don't sit down immediately after urination: The research on male physiological structure shows that the internal and external sphincter of urethra will close after urination, so that the urethra and prostate will form a closed cavity. If you sit down at this time, it will increase the pressure in this closed cavity, which may increase the chance of residual urine flowing back to the prostate and cause prostatitis.