Our body wants to avoid losing too much heat If we become cold very quickly, the body protects our internal organs in a number of ways. One is “cold-induced diuresis”, or an increase in urine excretion in response to the cold. Initially, blood is diverted away from the skin to avoid losing its heat to the outside air.
Cold-Induced Diuresis
During cold diuresis, blood vessels constrict, and blood flow decreases to warm your internal and vital organs. This causes your blood pressure to increase, making your kidneys filter excess fluid and blood to decrease your blood volume, which causes a full bladder and makes you pee more.
Cold Diuresis
As a result, your blood pressure rises, and your kidneys have more blood to filter than normal— thus, they end up producing more urine, and you experience an increased urge to urinate. Although this can be irritating, cold diuresis is a way for your body to protect you from the cold.
Cold weather will result in your body needing to filter more blood than normal as a greater volume of blood rushes to your vital organs at a higher frequency. This results in you having to pee more often. Sure, it's an annoying process, but rest assured that it's perfectly normal.
What's Normal, What's Not? The average adult pees about six to seven times in a 24-hour period and can sleep between six and eight hours at night without a bathroom break. If you're getting up more than once a night to empty your bladder, you might be dealing with nocturnal urinary frequency or nocturia.
If you urinate often, and your pee is very light-colored or even clear, it could be a sign of diabetes.
This also applies to normal urinary frequency. For most people, the normal number of times to urinate per day is between 6 – 7 in a 24 hour period. Between 4 and 10 times a day can also be normal if that person is healthy and happy with the number of times they visit the toilet.
Overactive Bladder. Overactive bladder is a collection of symptoms that may affect how often you pee and your urgency. Causes include abdominal trauma, infection, nerve damage, medications and certain fluids. Treatment includes changing certain behaviors, medications and nerve stimulation.
Bladder. This triangle-shaped, hollow organ is located in the lower abdomen. It is held in place by ligaments that are attached to other organs and the pelvic bones.
The feeling of frequently needing to pee even after you've just peed is caused by constantly activated peeing muscles. These muscles might be responding to residual pee left in your bladder. Or they might be overreacting to irritated nerves in your urinary tract if you have an inflammatory condition.
Since you'll be hydrating more when you're sick, your bladder will fill up faster, so voiding more frequently can fight the sudden urge to urinate and accidents when your bladder fills up too quickly.
If your bedroom is cool (e.g. due to air conditioning in the home), keep yourself warm by wearing socks and/or a blanket. Cold temperatures tend to stimulate urination.
Most people pee on average about seven to eight times per day. If you feel the need to pee more than that, or if you have to get up to pee every 30 minutes to an hour, you might be frequently urinating.
Typically, you should be able to sleep six to eight hours during the night without having to get up to go to the bathroom. But, people who have nocturia wake up more than once a night to pee.
The oxybutynin transdermal patch is the only over-the-counter (OTC) medication approved to treat overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome. OAB syndrome causes frequent and sudden urges to urinate and can also induce urinary incontinence.
The bottom line. Clear pee generally means that you're well hydrated. But it's possible to hydrate too much, and this can cause some health risks. So, it's best to stay within the range of the recommended daily amount of water intake.
In winter, we're often indoors, around water sources, so we are more likely to be hydrated, less active, and to sweat less. As such, we tend to have more free fluid to excrete via our urine.
If a person has a constant urge to pee but nothing comes out when they go, they may have an infection or other health condition. If a person frequently needs to pee but little comes out when they try to go, it can be due to a urinary tract infection (UTI), pregnancy, an overactive bladder, or an enlarged prostate.
Many people wonder how long it takes to pee after drinking water, but it depends on a variety of factors. Generally, it takes your body 9 to 10 hours to produce 2 cups of urine. A properly hydrated person with an almost full bladder will need to urinate between five to fifteen minutes after drinking water.
What color is urine when your kidneys are failing? Your pee may turn darker and appear dark brown (like tea or cola) when you have kidney disease or kidney failure.
There's no cure for diabetes and no way to completely get rid of it. However, diabetes can be reversed in most people. Reversing diabetes means carefully managing blood sugars to a point where medications are no longer necessary, and staying at that manageable point through a healthy routine of diet and exercise.