What is the reason why children always urinate?

Due to many bad living habits, some adults have frequent urination. In comparison, frequent urination in children is not common. If you find that your child is always urinating, you can see how much he urinates each time. If the amount of urine is very small each time, but the frequency is very large, then it is definitely abnormal and may be pathological. For example, the following reasons can cause this symptom.

First, what is the cause of frequent urination in children?

What causes frequent urination in children? Medically speaking, babies often urinate more often because of their high metabolism, high water intake every day, and small bladder capacity. The main reasons are:

1. Urinary tract inflammation: If you have frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination or fever, you should consider urinary tract infection, such as cystitis, pyelonephritis, etc. Pus cells or a large number of white blood cells can be found under the urine microscope. In severe cases, there are symptoms of systemic infection and poisoning, which require antibiotic treatment.

2. Dietary polyuria: If you have frequent urination and a large amount of urine each time, but no other symptoms, you should first pay attention to whether you drink too much water, especially children who like sugary water.

3. Special diseases: If frequent urination is accompanied by large urine volume, thirst, polydipsia, and weight loss, you should pay attention to check the urine. If the urine contains sugar, you should consider diabetes. If there is no sugar in the urine but the specific gravity is low, you should think of diabetes insipidus.

4. Urethral and seasonal factors: If you have frequent urination but a small amount of urine each time, and you don’t feel any pain when urinating or have any other symptoms, you should first consider local factors, such as inflammation of the urethral orifice, excessive foreskin, or pinworms irritating the genitals. In addition, due to seasonal factors, polyuria in winter is a normal phenomenon.

5. Neurogenic urinary frequency: In young children, the detrusor muscle of the bladder is underdeveloped and the nerves are not sound, so they may have daytime spot polyuria, up to 20 to 30 times, but normal urination at night. There is a tendency for recurring urination, and urine tests are normal. This disease is not caused by inflammation.

The baby's frequent urination should be treated according to the cause. If it is caused by inflammation, anti-infection should be the main treatment. If it is caused by pinworms, deworming should be given. If the foreskin is too long, surgery can be performed, and if the patient simply drinks too much water, the amount of water intake can be controlled appropriately.

Second, what to do if children have frequent urination

What should I do if my child has frequent urination? First, parents must observe carefully to initially confirm the symptoms, but the final diagnosis sometimes requires some tests to be made. Frequent urination should be prevented and treated according to the cause. If it is caused by inflammation, anti-infection should be the main treatment; if it is caused by pinworms, deworming should be given; if it is caused by foreskin being too long, surgery can be performed, etc.

The most important thing is to observe whether frequent urination is accompanied by an increase in urine volume. Often when children urinate excessively but also have a large urine volume, this is mostly due to physiological reasons. In addition to the symptom of frequent urination, are there other symptoms such as fever, urgency, pain when urinating, whether the urine is turbid or the urine color has changed. In addition, it is necessary to observe the duration of the child's frequent urination, whether it is related to mental factors, diet, medication status, and whether the child suffers from other diseases (such as diabetes).

For those who have physiological frequent urination caused by increased urine volume, its occurrence can be completely prevented by controlling the food intake that causes the increased urine volume. For example, if frequent urination is caused by high-sugar beverages, parents can encourage their children to drink more boiled water and less beverages. The symptoms can be quickly relieved or even eliminated. For children who are easily nervous, parents should avoid scolding or abusing them as much as possible to reduce their mental stress. Even if the child has frequent urination, parents should find ways to distract the child's attention from urination. What should we do when facing children with neurogenic frequent urination? First of all, parents should not pay too much attention or scold their children. Instead, they should encourage their children to extend the time between urinations as much as possible and record the longest time between urinations every day. If there is progress, appropriate rewards can be given.

Third, what should children eat for frequent urination?

Parents should avoid giving their children spicy and irritating foods in their daily meals, and try to avoid letting their children drink beverages. In addition, children urinate frequently and lose more potassium in their bodies, so they should be supplemented with more potassium-containing foods, such as mushrooms, cabbage, beans, peanuts, walnuts, etc. You can also give your child some food that is good for the kidneys, water, and bladder every day:

1. Corn silk drink

Ingredients: 15 grams of corn silk, white sugar.

Method: Wash the corn silk with clean water and air dry. Place the casserole on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, put in corn silk, simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, then add sugar to season.

2. Fresh lotus root and Imperata root juice

Ingredients: 120 grams each of fresh lotus root and fresh impatiens root.

Method: Peel the fresh lotus root, wash and slice it. Wash the impatiens root and chop it into small pieces. Place the casserole on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, put in lotus root slices and impetigo root chopped, and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. Remove the residue and keep the soup for drinking.