To stop urinating more than 15 minutes is dangerous for your health

Urinating is a process of natural cleansing of the body to which one brings too little importance. There are many who neglect the benefits and sometimes hold back until they no longer hold. Either because the time is not convenient, or because the toilets are not nearby. Yet, to hold back more than 10 to 15 minutes of urination is strongly discouraged. Beyond this time and if the process is repeated regularly, the health consequences can be serious.

To refrain from urinating promotes the stagnation of bacteria

To refrain from urinating frequently and for a long time causes stagnation of the urine and an accumulation of bacteria in the bladder which can be at the origin of urinary tract infection (also called cystitis) Very common in women – it is estimated that 2% to 3% of them have cystitis each year – this infection that spreads in the urinary tract causes a persistent urge to urinate, abdominal pain and terrible burns. moment of urination. Because in addition to the water that is consumed, the urine contains all the waste substances whose body no longer needs and that the kidneys have filtered (calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, cystine, uric acid. ..).

Specifically, the bladder contains consumed liquids, small residues, as well as acidic and ammoniacal substances. If this mixture is not evacuated regularly, it can damage the walls of the urinary tract, relax the muscles of the bladder and increase the risk of urinary retention – when you can not urinate despite envy – which in the long term may require the installation of a urinary catheter.

In 2015, Joshua Meeks, an urologist at the Northwestern Medicine Center in the United States, described the case of a soldier who lost consciousness after keeping the equivalent of three bottles of wine in the bladder, in the Men's Health magazine. "The organ was completely distended," he explained, "the patient became unable to urinate normally, and he had to have a catheter inserted three to six times a day into his penis." In such a case, before placing a catheter, the volume of the bladder has already increased and is noted by a mass above the pubis.

Renal calculus, chills, pelvic pain

Urinating can also lead to the formation of kidney stones. These small crystals (called "urolithiasis" in medical jargon) are formed in the kidneys, bladder or urethra. Their size is very variable and can range from a few millimeters to several centimeters in diameter. When they are small, the stones can be eliminated by the natural ways and can sometimes cause the presence of blood in the urine.

But when they are large and they form in small ducts like the ureters, located between the kidneys and the bladder, they can easily block the passage and cause very severe pain. This phenomenon is called renal colic. Renal colic is an intense pain that usually occurs in the lumbar region, on one side of the back, but sometimes on the belly or groin. The main complication of renal colic is superinfection of urine and kidney (pyelonephritis), due to stagnation of urine and distension of the urinary tract upstream of the calculation, which exposes to a generalized infection (sepsis). It is estimated that 5% to 10% of people have kidney stones during their lifetime and that half of them will have them again 10 years after the lack of prevention is important. Overall, kidney stones are twice as common in men and often occur after 40 years.

Stopping urination can also lead to vesicoureteral reflux, a fairly serious disease that occurs when the urine, instead of being expelled, returns to the urethra and kidneys. As stated by the French Association of Urology, "the intervention is then to reshape the implantation of the ureter in the bladder by injecting an implant in the bladder wall.This modification restores an anti-reflux mechanism." The patient can be treated with antibiotics to "limit the risk of urinary tract infection and thus kidney infection, but he does not treat reflux himself". Then there is the surgical treatment by "creation of an anti-reflux after opening the bladder and dissection of the end of one or both ureters". Toxins and bacteria stored in the bladder can also cause sweating, chills, cramps and pelvic pain.

The dangers of a new sexual practice

Refraining from urinating has also become a dangerous sexual practice called "Peegasm". It is for women to refrain from urinating as long as possible, this would provide an intense orgasm once the urge is relieved. A practice that would be based on the proximity of the clitoris, the vagina and the excretory channel of the bladder, the urethra, and the stimulation of the clitoris and its branches when the neck of the bladder opens to let pass this large amount of 'urine.