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How To Hold Your Pee (Bladder Basics)
You are in a very important meeting, the AC is killing, it’s your presentation next and your bladder’s demanding a release.
Or. You may be you are on a street, grocery shopping! Having to hold in pee may be difficult or unpleasant. But if you are without acceptable facilities, privacy, time, or opportunity, here’s how to cope.
Close your urethra: Most people do this automatically when a slight urge to pee is first felt. As the urge to pee grows, tensing unnecessary muscles can waste effort and may make the problem worse. Focus instead on isolating and squeezing muscles surrounding the urethra while allowing other muscles to relax on their own.
Reposition your body: The way you position your body can help you tighten the muscles around your bladder, and make you feel like holding it is more possible. Don’t press the lower part of your stomach, at all. It will put more pressure on your bladder.
Cross your legs when standing: Don’t cross your legs when sitting. Doing this can result in pain or possible loss of bladder control.
Opening your legs as wide as you can will help you hold it longer. You may feel like you are about to lose control, but if you let that feeling pass (which usually takes about 20 seconds), you will be able to hold it much longer.
Sit upright but relaxed: Don’t “slouch”. Raise your upper-body and allow your back to arch, taking pressure off your bladder, but do not “stretch” your abdomen as this will add pressure. Relax your abdomen.
Do not lean forward, pull the front of your pelvis up, or squeeze your abdomen inward.
Stay warm. If you can, then make yourself as warm as you can by covering up with blankets, turning up the heater, or curling your body closer together. Here’s the logic: Your body has to spend energy to keep the urine in your bladder at body temperature. If you’re in a cold area, your body will want to conserve the heat it can generate and not spend it on a bladder full of waste.
Avoid jarring or shaking your body: Avoid changing positions too suddenly, and tense, abrupt, or sudden movement. Remain smooth and natural.
Minimize drinking anything while you need to pee. But drink enough to maintain normal hydration, avoid anything unnecessary. Drink when you are actually thirsty, don’t drink a beverage ‘just because it’s there.’
Think of a distraction: Avoid any thoughts about letting out pee. Do not think of anything that may make you want to pee more.
Know that you cannot actually ‘burst’ your bladder. Your body’s reflexes will prevent serious injury. So long as you are still able to ‘hold-back,’ your bladder is not in serious danger. Feeling like you’re going to ‘explode,’ or in some other way hurt yourself, is an illusion.
Don’t think that ‘letting a little bit out’ will help. It won’t. ‘Letting a little bit out’ is impossible – your bladder won’t stop.
Don’t laugh or think about anything funny. Laughing might cause you to contract muscles (such as your diaphragm) that’ll put more pressure on your bladder.
Posted by
New Educated Zambia©
March 19, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Very wrong advice. It is bad for your body to hold waste matter such as urine in your body. Do the wise thing and simply excuse yourself and relieve yourself.
New Educated Zambia©
March 19, 2015 at 12:19 pm
Rather than hold the PF urine and waste inside you,it is time to get rid of them.
New Educated Zambia©
March 19, 2015 at 12:51 pm
and instead drink some fresh UPND water.
Ndaje Kahks
March 19, 2015 at 3:05 pm
Iwe so you have nothing to say kano fye politics? PF is in power at least but for you it is just hope and hope. Try to stick to the subject once and stop misusing Educated
Dimma
March 19, 2015 at 5:03 pm
This gentleman made some money off of UPND and so he just can’t afford to pass any up! He is just a business man!
virgin angel
March 19, 2015 at 12:51 pm
Those suggestions are a relief for a few seconds, its practically impossible to hold. When nature calls, if you got to go you gotta go!Its hard to hold on something not worth holding onto, up N Down got to let go before its too late!
Umupandapwiti
March 19, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Reading this article has made me feel like I have wasted five minute of my life. Anyway, iyi ni advice iya kuisundawila pabantu ninshi naunwamo Legga iyili four. lol
bachimbwi1
March 19, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Caution:keeping the urine inside the blader,causes serious kidney ploblems.kidney failure is one of the causes. Please never keep urine as it has high concentration of urea a compound which is toxic in your body.take a research.
shimaini
March 19, 2015 at 3:03 pm
I have never seen a useless party like UPND. This party will never rule this country. At HH kwati ni mbwa!!!
Ndaje Kahks
March 19, 2015 at 3:06 pm
Hoo! Hoo!
kakolwe
March 19, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Awe mune shimaini!! I know how vexing it is to have to continually listen to an imbecile repetitively utter rubbish. You know, even HH would be annoyed at his supporter always insulting his targeted voters. So boy, let us not insult HH for the folly of the likes of NEZ. It is not hakainde’s fault.
New Educated Zambia©
March 19, 2015 at 7:10 pm
Pf illiterates are funny. Please point me to any insult I have written towards the PF? What is funny is that you are commenting on shimaini’s comment which is calling upnd or rather me a dog. Do you now see why I say PF people are fools? And before you go on to say it, fool is not an insult you imbecile. And imbecile too is not an insult
fm
March 19, 2015 at 6:43 pm
What a waste of space. You’re on the street or in a workshop….. and the solution is a blanket. Physicians recommend responding the first time you feel the urge. Newspaper science is dangerous.
shanikeshume
March 19, 2015 at 7:35 pm
i m worried of people passing out topic coments. u r like an empty tin falling in the midist of a long prayer making the prayer maker fail to say amen but ends a sharp screem.
club zero
March 19, 2015 at 9:38 pm
@new educate banoko bean,hw much ar u paid
New Educated Zambia©
March 19, 2015 at 9:56 pm
No need for insults ba pf. Engage me maturely
Dr Phil
March 19, 2015 at 9:58 pm
You are at a rugby match and it’s cold. its half time and the que for the toilet is fifty meters and you have been drinking beer for seven hours. Best solution is to shake Your legs and not to think about water or urine. have a distraction.
Ndaje Kahks
March 20, 2015 at 7:37 am
Ku ya sunda fye. Nshashe imfumu yeka anyelele mwitonge