Saturday, April 16, 2011

Things To Avoid When You Have An Overactive Bladder

By Stella Mellow


Do you suffer from having a bladder that is overactive? Do you find yourself frequently getting up for trips to the toilet? Have you tried all kinds of things in an attempt to end those frequent trips to the restroom when you are at work? Most folks believe that it is our liquid intake that plays a part in the amount of time we spend relieving our bladders. This is the reason that a lot more people end up accidentally dehydrating themselves in their attempts to stay out of the restroom.

Would you believe us if we informed you that it is equally probable that the things you eat could also be causing you to make these frequent potty breaks? The basic fact of the matter is the fact that those number one bathroom breaks are simply a way for your body to relieve waste. The waste builds up equally out of liquid and solid intakes. The waste you get rid of might be from stuff that are both liquid and solid--it doesn't matter what type it is in when you eat or drink it.

Vitamin C is quite necessary for fighting off illness but it can also be a major factor in irritating your bladder. This is mainly due to the fact that many citrus fruits have large levels of acid and thats why you need to avoid them both in solid and juice forms. The main sources of this acid are pineapples (which isn't technically a citrus fruit but is every bit as irritating to your system), lemons, tangerines, grapefruits and oranges. You ought to choose bananas, apples, pears and berries to get ample Vitamin C each day.

This might seem a little bit traumatizing but if your bladder is excessively active, you shouldn't take in a lot of chocolate. Caffeine is in chocolate. Your bladder doesn't enjoy it when you consume caffeine and will reward you for this intake with lots of trips to the bathroom. This is just as true for caffeinated liquids. If you've been making a lot of visits to the bathroom, lay off of the caffeine both in solid and liquid form. Choose dark chocolate as well as decaffeinated beverages instead.

Particularly spicy food items, like caffeine, may be very irritating to the bladder. This could be hard to accept for people who like spicy food items but if you don't want to spend your entire night going to the toilet, you want to avoid the foods that are spiciest like wasabi sauce, spicy nachos, etc. If the food makes your nose and eyes run it is going to help to make other aspects of your body run as well. The fix is simple; choose exactly the same foods but just not as spicy so that you still get the taste without all of the bodily irritation.

We usually think that if it's fluid when it comes out it should have been fluid when it went in. This is absolutely not the case. What our bodies excrete is the leftover bits of what we have eaten and drunk that our bodies are unable to use or store so it gets rid of them in whatever way is the easiest and most convenient.




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