Frequent Urination 

Most people typically urinate four to eight times a day. Needing to go more than eight times a day or waking up in the night to go to the bathroom more than once in the night is considered frequent urination. Though the bladder can often hold as much as 600 ml of urine (about 2 ½ cups), the urge to urinate is usually felt when the bladder contains about 150 ml of urine (just over ½ cup).

There are two different ways to look at frequent urination: either as an increase in total volume of urine produced (polyuria) or a dysfunction in the storage and emptying of urine.


Frequent Urination Causes

Urinary tract infection: The lining of the urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body) and bladder becomes inflamed and irritated due to byproducts of an infection (blood, white blood cells, bacteria). This irritation of the bladder wall causes the urge to empty the bladder frequently (called frequency).


Diabetes: An early symptom of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can be frequent urination, as the body tries to rid itself of unused glucose (blood sugar) through the urine. Diabetes can also damage the nerves that control the bladder, causing frequent urination and difficulty controlling your bladder


Diuretic use: Medications used to treat high blood pressure or fluid buildup work in the kidney and flush excess fluid from the body, causing frequent urination.

Prostate problems: An enlarged prostate can press against the urethra and block the flow of urine, causing the bladder wall to become irritated. The bladder contracts even when it contains small amounts of urine, causing more frequent urination. Brachytherapy (sealed source radiotherapy, or "seed treatment" for prostate cancer) can cause frequent urination in about one-third of patients.


Pregnancy: Hormonal changes and the growing uterus placing pressure on the bladder cause frequent urination, even in the early weeks of gestation. The trauma from vaginal childbirth can also cause damage to the urethra.


Interstitial cystitis: This condition is characterized by pain in the bladder and pelvic region, often leading to frequent urination.


Stroke or other neurological diseases: Damage to nerves that supply the bladder can lead to problems with bladder function, including frequent and sudden urges to urinate.


Bladder cancer: Tumors taking up space or causing bleeding in the bladder may lead to more frequent urination.


Overactive bladder syndrome: Often frequent urination is itself the problem. Involuntary bladder contractions lead to frequent and often urgent urination, even if the bladder is not full.


Drinking too much: Ingesting more fluids than your body needs can cause the body to urinate more often.


Artificial sweeteners, alcohol, caffeine and other foods: Alcohol and caffeine can act as diuretics, which can cause more frequent urination. Carbonated drinks, artificial sweeteners (such as Splenda or Equal), and citrus fruits are known to irritate the bladder, causing more frequent urination

Frequent Urination Symptoms

Even though there are numerous causes for frequent urination, the symptoms are generally the same. Below are some terms that are used to describe symptoms that may accompany frequent urination.

Frequency: urinating more than eight times during the day or more than once overnight


Hesitancy: incomplete evacuation of the bladder during each episode of urination. There may be a sudden stoppage of the urine flow due to spasms in the bladder or urethra or there may be difficulty starting the flow of urine.


Urgency: the uncomfortable feeling of pressure in the bladder that makes you feel you have to go "right now"


Urinary incontinence: the inability to control the flow of urine, leading to either constant or intermittent accidental leakage


Dysuria: pain or burning sensation during or immediately following urination. This may be a sign of a urinary tract infection.


Hematuria: Blood in the urine can be small amounts, clots, or very bloody. This will usually cause the urine to appear darker in color.


Nocturia: This is having to wake up to urinate. It can also be associated with nighttime urinary incontinence. (In children, this includes wetting the bed.)


Pollakiuria: frequent daytime urination


Dribbling: After finishing urination, urine continues to drip or dribble out.


Straining: having to squeeze or bear down to initiate the urine stream



REMEDIES



1 Aconite Sudden chest congestion due to dry cold winds, restlessness, great thirst for cold drinks; tremendous fear/panic
2 Ant-crud. Milky white tongue
3 Allium Cepa Eyes and nose water profusely; sneezing
4 Alumina Strains with soft stool, tired and weak
5 Apis Oedema, scanty urine, feels hot
6 Arg-Nit. Opthalmia, fluttering stools, loud eructations, ailments from too much chocolate, sweets, candy
7 Arnica        Soreness, fatigue, effects of injury, blunt trauma
8 Arsenicum Aggravation 1 a.m., extremely weak, anxious and restless; food poisoning/diarrhea
9 Belladona          Head hot, painful, sudden onset of complaints, high fever
10 Bryonia         The slightest movement aggravates
11 Carbo Veg Flatulence and burping which relieves; weak, better draft of air though chilly
12 China           Weak. Flatulence, bloating and burping which does not relieve. Worse draft of air.
13 Cuprum Met  Spasms. General amelioration from cold drinks
14 Cantharis         Frequent burning urination
15 Cina                Grits teeth, bores fingers into nose
16 Cactus         Feeling of constriction
17 Calcarea Carb Impaired nutrition, irregular bone development
18 Calc-fluor. Glands hard, varicose veins, hard bony growths
19 Causticum         Local paralysis
20 Chamomilla Stormy temper, irritable
21 Chelidonium Jaundice
22 Cicuta Virosa Convulsions
23 Cimicifuga           Painful menses
24 Colocynth             Crampy pains, person bends double from cramps; Sciatica, usually right sided, better lying on the painful side
25 Digitalis          Pulse very slow
26 Drosera        Whooping cough
27 Dulcamara Nettle rash, diarrhea, eye inflameld by damp cold, ailments from cold, damp weather
28 Glonoine         Head, neck throbs, sunstroke/heatstroke
29 Gelsemium Ptosis, profuse urination which ameliorates, weakness, apathetic to his condition
30 Graphites        Sticky, honey-like oozing from eruptions, cracks in skin, constipation
31 Hepar Sulph Inflamed part extremely sensitive to touch
32 Hypericum Nerve centres crushed or affected
33 Ipecac         Nausea
34 Iris V.         Acidity, vomiting and headache
35 Iodium        Glands (except breast) swell
36 Ignatia      Changeable moods, effects of grief
37 Kali Carb       Aggravation 3 a.m.
38 Merc Cor         Tenesmus (constant urging)
39 Mag. Phos Cramping pains – amelioration from heat
40 Nitric Acid Mouth blisters, anal fissures
41 Nux Vomica Frequent urge for stool-urination
42 Opium            Constipation with no urge
43 Phosphoric Acid Nervous debility, diarrhea
44 Podophyllum     Diarrhea-dentition
45 Rhus Tox            Restlessness-muscular pains
46 Silicea           Defective assimilation
47 Staphysagria Styes, frequent urination, throws things when angry, trembles from anger, cystitis after sex.
48 Sulphur Burning in patches, standing is uncomfortable
49 Thuja Warts
50 Veratrum Alb Colic, vomiting, loose stools, cold sweat on forehea