What is the reason for frequent urination in little boys?

Frequent urination and urgency are more likely to occur in adults, especially adult men. This is related to many bad living habits of adult men. But sometimes children also have frequent urination. At this time, parents should pay attention to it. It is best to take the children to the hospital for examination. The real cause can be found through scientific examination.

What is the reason for frequent urination in little boys?

1. Urinary tract infection

The most common urinary tract infection is characterized by frequent urination, accompanied by urinary incontinence and enuresis, as well as redness, swelling and pain in the vulva, excessive secretions, and a large number of white blood cells in the urine. Urinary tract infections are often diagnosed with a urine culture and are treated with antibiotics.

2. Allergic diseases

The child has very severe urinary frequency, accompanied by redness and itching, but no secretion and no abnormalities in the urine routine examination. Such children often suffer from long-term coughing, runny nose, snoring, skin rashes and other systemic allergic symptoms. Some mothers bring their children to the hospital without explaining that their children have these problems, and only care about the frequent urination, which may lead to misdiagnosis.

3. Parasitic Infection

There are symptoms such as frequent urination, anal itching, and enuresis. It is common in kindergarten children. When they are infected with pinworms, you can check around the anus when you have frequent urination or itchy buttocks to see if there is any worm activity. If this is the problem, it should be treated with anthelmintics.

4. Glomerulonephritis

In addition to frequent urination, there may be more serious symptoms, such as swollen face, less urine, brown urine, proteinuria, etc. You should see a kidney specialist in the hospital as soon as possible.

5. Neuropsychiatric urinary frequency

There is also a type of urinary frequency called neuropsychiatric frequent urination, also known as daytime frequent urination syndrome, which is an independent disease in pediatrics. The age of the affected children is generally between 2 and 11 years old, and most cases occur in preschool children. The characteristics of the disease are frequent urination, once every 2 to 10 minutes, and the amount of urine excreted each time is very small, sometimes just a few drops, and there is no frequent urination after sleep. Such frequent urination symptoms often worsen before going to bed, during meals, and in class.

Children with this disease often have a strong urgency to urinate and cannot hold it for even a moment. Smaller children often wet their pants because of this, but multiple urine tests have been normal. When they visit some primary medical institutions, they are often misdiagnosed with urinary tract infections and treated with antibiotics, but the effect is not good.

The reason for neuropsychiatric frequent urination in children is, on the one hand, that their cerebral cortex is not yet fully developed, and their inhibitory function on the primary urination center of the spinal cord is poor, making them easily affected by adverse external stimuli and causing disorders; on the other hand, there are some factors in children's lives that cause mental tension and adversely stimulate their mental state.

For example, changes in living environment, children's lack of psychological preparation for entering kindergarten or school, being fostered by others, sudden separation of parents, death of relatives, fear of exams or fear of certain animals, etc. These may make children nervous and anxious, causing the function of inhibiting urination to be impaired, resulting in an increase in the frequency of urination.

6. Dietary factors

If your baby urinates frequently and the amount of urine each time is large, but there are no other symptoms, you should first pay attention to whether he drinks too much water. Younger infants and toddlers may drink too much milk. In addition, frequent urination in children often occurs in children who like sugary drinks, such as drinking a lot of water or beverages, or consuming too much protein food and fruits, which causes an increase in urine volume.