Imagine, you are at an office for your interview, worried about what will happen, will get selected or not, and then the person next to you goes inside for an interview and you are tensed because you are the next! You feel thirsty and drink water and you can feel the water going inside and suddenly you have a strong urge to go for a pee and your name is called out for an interview. 

Pee as much as you want but stop if excess water comes out! Will learn about overactive bladder and urination problems.

1. How Much Water Do You Consume in A Day?

Our body contains 60% of water content. It’s recommended to drink 8 glasses of plain water a day and meant us to stay hydrated to help excrete waste products, do you go with enough water for the day?

And how many times do you go to the bathroom to pee? Less intake of water can also increase problems, So it’s important only to have adequate drinking water

1.1 How Long Should It Take to Pee After Drinking Water?

It’s normal to pee after 15 minutes of drinking water, but an immediate urge to pee after drinking it will lead to many other causes.

2. Why Does Drinking Water Leads to Urgent Peeing?

It can be many reasons, don’t worry, it’s just you need to start focusing on water intake and other fluids and don’t intake more water. Let’s do an exercise, make a sheet and write about the number of times you went to pee and maintain it for 2 days. 

Frequent urination Is it a major problem?

Facing kidney stones¹ or urinary tract, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and extra weight all affect our urinary bladder.

Too much water, having more trips, water loss, urination, always urinating while being in the bathroom, anxiety, kidneys issue, fluid intake, more urine, drinking water, increasing water intake, kidney disease, and wandering all these can be issued for our body to face and will see different conditions and causes of same.

What are the different types of conditions in this?

• Stress incontinence- 10%
• Overactive bladder- 80%
• Overflow incontinence 10%

In these three conditions, the most happening one is the OVERACTIVE BLADDER², which means you pee more than a normal person and get easily urge to pee. Your brain signals to pee even if it’s not needful.  First will understand this term in detail.

3. What Is Known as An Overactive Bladder?

It means you drink as much water and other fluids, which gives you an urge – It is also termed OAB, an active urge to let go of urine which is difficult to delay. When you drink something, fluid passes through your body and signals the brain to empty the bladder instantly. 

Now will look into the symptoms of an overactive bladder.

3.1 Urine Frequently

All this where starts from, the frequency of how many times we go to pee. The urge to go again and again, even if you did go to pee a while ago. 

 3.2 Urgency

This is the time, you can’t hold pee for long, release water, and need a sense of urgency in it, leaving the present doing work and focus shifts to pee. 

3.3 Urinary Incontinence

This term explains if there is bladder leakage³,(URINE LEAKAGE)or urge incontinence it feels like urine drops without any urge or warning, and adding more trips to the bladder, makes a scenario towards embarrassment, and will not let you focus on one thing. 

3.4 Nocturia

This means you wake at night to pee and break your sleep and sometimes people also keep waking to urine for more than one time. 

These are the four symptoms of an overactive bladder, which leads to affecting your life around.  It happens when you are most vulnerable to certain emotions, and that time gives you an alarm to pee at regular intervals. These overactive bladder symptoms also affect your physical relationship, at times doing sex.

 To get a better understanding will check the roots of the same, which varies from person to person.

Age, being Overweight, multiple pregnancies, diabetes, depression, and spinal cord injuries are a few stages and incidents which lead to urgency to pee. 

4. What Are the Main Reasons Behind It?

4.1 Emotions

The topic which we don’t discuss and look that emotions changing can lead a sign to frequent urination. If you have anxiety or fear, it can lead to urination. This can happen at any age, If you are nervous regarding some situation and worried and thinking about how it will process or go. 

   You would have noticed or experienced that when you are excited to go out or go to an important meeting, you think this is an important part and should not go worst,  you start preparing yourself by urinating before properly or not sipping water much, or doing vice versa, and clearing your bladder later.

4.2 Pelvic Muscles

Pelvic muscles support the bowel and bladder,  If our pelvic muscles are weak, then the bladder gets weak, and even if we drink enough amount of water and any fluids, we feel the urgency to pee. This reason depends on age too, it causes both men and female.

   Women after giving birth face similar issues more than others.

 4.3 Diabetic or Addicted to Sugar

If you love sweets, or you are a sweet tooth, this might cause you to urinate more. Our body is smart enough to get rid of this extra sugar and in the form of pee, it gets out of our body. Caffeine is a major health risk if not controlled. Most people get addicted to the same and urinate frequently.

 4.4  Urinary Tract Infections

You may have heard about this and also known as UTI, it may happen when dirt or bacteria get around and infect our tract. Urinary tract infection ⁴majorly affects the area around the bladder.

4.5 Cystitis

 This means inflammation. 

When you pee and have a burning sensation while peeing. This has been seen in more females. After you pee, there is discomfort relief that is caused and if this turns into a lot of pain, then it’s better to consult a doctor. 

4.6 Diuretics

These medicines are water pills and thus if you are under medication and taking di-ure- tics medicines, which will increase water intake and lead to frequent urination.

If you read the term DIURETICS loudly it sounds like direct urine- being on diuretic medication can cause one, as the kidneys release sodium which passes to urine.

And simple reasons like water intake are high or having citrus fruits, drinking alcohol, energy drinks, salty foods, caffeine, and many more can also lead to often urination. 

5. What Are the Remedies for This?

Drinking fluids and excess water throughout the day is okay, also we need to look into remedies and routines to follow to not worry about health and have control over our bodies. 

If you are worried and looking for simpler solutions for your health and diet, you can add some healthy alternatives for your overall health.

5.1. Healthy Eating

• Amla
• Cumin seeds
• Sesame seeds

 As discussed adding this to your diet, you should also start working on pelvic floor muscles, to make them strong, you need to look for exercises for the same. 

5.2. Exercises

•  Hip thrust
• Butterfly thrust
• Malasana

5.3. Lose Fat

To reduce this frequent pressure, one also needs to lose fat, obesity or overweight are also the sign, and if you are facing these both, you need to lose fat as much as possible, which will lead to better health around. 

5.4. Proper Sleep

Most people tend to forget the importance of good sleep, because urinary issues, can break your sleep cycle, and this will lead to major concerns. Many things start from not getting proper sleep,  try to get your beauty sleep 

5.5. Changes in Fluids

This is of utmost importance, and directly connected to concern, about what type of fluids we should have. And when, and what to avoid, please try to drink adequate fluids. And look only for healthy and not alcohol-based or maximum sugar content options.  

Our Pelvic floor muscles need strength and not to pressure on our brain for silly things, Doing yoga helps in mindfulness and relaxing our muscles. 

6. Will Also See How To Overcome This Issue?

Our body needs rest and doctors help us to cure this in many ways, by doing tests like blood tests, examing our bladder, and concentrating on fluid intake too. 

Do you remember, the exercise I told you about, will talk about it in brief here.

Waking up in the morning and the first thing you should empty your bladder and note the time, so you can mark this on the sheet and same before going to bed, you should use the restroom and then sleep at night. 

This will help your bladder from overfilling. You will get strong control through this small activity and routine. 

There are times you should take the help of doctors if 

• The problem getting worse and affecting your sleep cycle
• You have different urinary issues 

Doctors will help with a physical examination and will check on the frequency, smell, and colour if it’s normal urine colour, light yellow, or dark- depending on that will help in the cure. Also suggests getting done with tests like urine tests or urine culture tests etc.

Several factors should not be neglected-

• Blood in the urine
• Fearful pain urination
• Red or brown urine
• Facing difficulties while urinating 
• No more control of the bladder
• Kidney problems  

7. What Are the Details to Focus On?

Urinating 8 times a day, having the other foods and fluids at the right time, and Avoid caffeine, and alcohol, which result in increasing your problem,

Following a diet and looking forward to getting your health better, will help you overall, not just urinary issues but also will help with kidney problems, and clear kidney stones, diabetics and other issues too. 

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Things to keep in mind to be away from urinary issues-

• Drink smaller amounts of water
• Drink more water or increase fluid intake, and avoid alcohol and smoking too.
• Eat a Bladder healthy diet which will help with digestion.
• Pelvic muscles exercise
• Healthy weight need to be maintained 
• Only have doctor-prescribed medications
• Track your health symptoms.
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At last, what matters, is to drink water or sip water, going bathroom is normal but taking care of your health is a must. 

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Last Updated on May 15, 2024 by Namrata