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Can your Bladder Burst when you Hold your Pee?! A Urologist explains

what happens when you hold your urine too long can your bladder actually burst I'm Dr Rena Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and today I'm going to answer just that so what happens when your bladder fills is that your bladder has receptors and these receptors send signals to the brain that brain then sends you signals of urge it might be hey I think you should maybe go to the bathroom soon and soon it becomes hey you should go very soon and other times it's like hey you better go or you're going to pee your pants right we've all been there so what happens when you hold your urine well when you hold it your body can actually learn to override these signals because the average person can hold up to two cups of urine and so what happens is you get the urge you distract yourself and the urge goes away and so then you continue doing whatever it is you're doing like watching a movie or writing a paper or whatever it is that you can't get up from and then eventually the urge comes back and then you go again and do the same thing and I'm sure everyone watching here has held their urine at some point for several hours right you've been watching a movie you don't want to get up you're in a long car ride you don't want to stop the car and so we've all been there but is it dangerous well maybe if you make a habit of holding your urine a few things can happen the first one is urinary tract infections so when your urine sits in your bladder it's like food for bacteria people used to think that urine was completely sterile but now we know that that's not the case there's always some bacteria in the urine so when that urine is sitting in the butter for long periods of time it can multiply and then you can be at risk for a urinary tract infection if it sits in there too long and in some people when you continue holding your bladder for long periods of time and we see this all the time and people like teachers bus drivers nurses that they hold their urine prolonged periods of time because they're busy doing other things teaching children driving a bus or a truck or taking care of patients right so it's hard to make time to go to the bathroom but over time if you do that for year after year the muscles in your bladder become come weaker because you've been stretching out your bladder for years and years and years and now your bladder can't squeeze as well as it used to and so in those cases you can start retaining more urine and that can over time either lead to you getting more urinary tract infections or it can lead to you having difficulty emptying your bladder in which case you might actually need to catheterize to empty your bladder or figure out another way to empty your bladder and other times it might just show up as other urinary problems like you need to go to the bathroom more frequently because if you're not emptying completely and you leave a little bit behind as soon as the bladder fills back up you're gonna have to go again and sometimes that can even lead to having accidents because you're constantly getting urges to go and sometimes you can't make it and so you have accidents or even at night time you might find yourself waking up at night more often of course this is not the only reason for these issues and I've made tons of videos on overactive bladder and nocturia are having urination at night so you can learn more about those issues and lastly in rare cases as it can lead to kidney problems so if you're constantly not emptying your bladder and your bladder becomes dysfunctional it can hold lots and lots of urine but you're not emptying that urine can then back up to the kidneys and create kidney failure so if you're noticing that you're having bladder issues this is why it's important to see a urologist to make sure that you are emptying your bladder and that your bladder is safe and not having issues where urine is backing up to your kidneys and you end up in the hospital with problems with your kidneys so that brings me to the question is can you burst your bladder like can you hold it long enough that it bursts and the answer is well maybe for a normal healthy individual it's very difficult to burst your bladder and that's because we see people all the time in the emergency room who haven't peed for three days and their bladder's not burst it's just really really full and really really uncomfortable it's very uncommon for a normal healthy individual to burst their bladder however if you've recently had surgery on your bladder or you've had a reconstruction of bladder with you know something like using bowel to your bladder or anything else then yes you can be at a higher risk for actually Perforating or bursting your bladder if you're worried and you're having abdominal pain you haven't peed in a while make sure you get to the hospital immediately because if you've actually perforated or burst your bladder you will need emergency surgery to fix that and you can get actually very very ill again this is a rare thing that happens but certainly something you don't want to risk having all right if you've enjoyed this video oh wait wait before you guys click away I just want to make sure you all know that I have new merch available for you to buy they come in a water bottle like this which says take care of yourself because you're worth it with my little face on it or there's a coffee mug so if you like this Channel and you want to support it feel free to buy some merch and as always remember to take care of yourself because you're worth it foreign [Music]

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