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Does salt stop urination?

This study investigated if salt intake has an effect on the frequency of urination during the day and nocturia. They found that high salt intake increases the frequency of urination and nocturia.

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Posted by Medivizor on Sep 20, 2018 in Nocturia |

In a nutshell

This study investigated if salt intake has an effect on the frequency of urination during the day and nocturia. They found that high salt intake increases the frequency of urination and nocturia.

Some background

Managing salt intake is important for general good health. There is evidence to suggest that salt intake can affect lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) such as pollakiuria and nocturia. Pollakiuria is an increased frequency of urination during the day. Nocturia is an increased urge to urinate at night. Patients with LUTS report a reduced quality of life. High salt intake can lead to excessive urine production. It is unclear if this will also lead to pollakiuria and nocturia.

Methods & findings

This study included 728 patients with LUTS. Patients were grouped according to their salt intake – low, medium and high. Medium (average) salt intake was 9.2 grams/day. Blood pressure, LUTS, and quality of life were measured. Patients with high salt intake had greater pollakiuria (8.4 times/day) compared to the low salt intake group (6.9 times/day). Nocturia symptoms were also more common in the high salt intake group (2.2 times/night) than the low salt intake group (1.4 times/night). Quality of life was significantly lower in patients with a high salt intake. In patients with a high salt intake, there was a 3.05-times higher risk of worsening of nocturia symptoms. For pollakiuria symptoms, this risk was 2.32 times higher. High blood pressure (hypertension) was also linked to LUTS getting worse.

The bottom line

This study concluded that high salt intake increases the frequency of urination during the day and nocturia.

The fine print

This study did not look at sleep patterns or amount of water intake. They also did not know how long patients had been following a low or high salt diet.

What’s next?

If you have any concerns regarding salt intake and LUTS please discuss this with your physician.

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the Renal and Urology News take:

Sitting to urinate is associated with an improved urodynamic profile in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and other prostate problems, a recent study published in PLOS ONE has found. Ype de Jong, MD, PhD, and fellow urologists at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands conducted a meta-analysis to better understand the effects of voiding posture on urodynamic parameters such as being able to urinate faster and with greater force, and leaving behind less urine in their bladders. They looked at a total of 11 studies gathered from 2,352 publications across 14 medical databases, looking for studies that compared urodynamic parameters in standing against those that included sitting. “We found that in patients with LUTS, the sitting position is associated with a trend towards a more favorable urodynamic profile,” the authors wrote. “When men with LUTS sat down to urinate, they did so faster, longer, at a greater pressure, and released more urine than men with LUTS who stood.” The authors stated that a possible reason for this is that when patients are sitting, pelvic and hip muscles were more relaxed, and contraction of the pelvic floor musculature inhibits urinary muscle activity.

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