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Urologist breaks down how running water makes you need to pee?

does hearing this make you feel like you have to rush to the bathroom well I'm Dr Rena Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and I'm going to discuss exactly why we feel the urge to urinate when we hear running water this is a classical example of conditioning you may have heard of the Pavlov's dog experiment this is the most famous and most discussed example of conditioning so the example is when a dog sees food an unconditioned stimuli and they have a response which is to salivate right now they add a neutral stimuli to the picture so they have the food is brought and a whistle is blown at the same time and the dog salivates and then they repeat this process over and over again Foods brought whistles blown and dog salivates so the next time the whistle is blown without food present the dog still salivates so they've been conditioned now to salivate when they hear the whistling sound and so this makes a lot of sense when we urinate it sounds like trickling water hitting the toilet bowl and similarly when you're hearing water running it stimulates that sound and it also gives us the urge to your urinate the alternative theory is that listening to sounds of running water can make us come which activates our parasympathetic nervous system and when the parasympathetic nervous system is activated our bladder muscles actually are activated to contract which then causes urination or the urge to empty your urine so how common is it to actually leak urine when you are washing your hands and this was studied back in 1992 where they looked at 600 males and about 3 000 females to assess what percentage of them had hand washing incontinence and how they Define that was then having leakage of urine that occurred during the time of washing your hand all in all only three percent of people actually leaked urine while they were washing their hands however participants who were older than 60 and women tended to have higher likelihoods of having these sorts of accents when washing their hands so know that if you're suffering from this type of leakage know that you are not alone this does happen to some people and we can help with things like pelvic floor Physical Therapy medications and even procedures so go see your local urologist and find out what we can do to help as always remember to take care of yourself because you're worth it [Music]

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